Interview with contemporary artist Matthew Metzger
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Picasso Black and White has all the ingredients of a blockbuster exhibition. The featured artworks are historically significant examples from the best known periods of the artist’s work installed chronologically.…
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Interview with contemporary artist Alan Reid
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This is officially the season of painters’ painters. Three major exhibitions curated by Houston-based painters have opened in the last five months– “In Plain Sight” curated by Aaron Parazette at…
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interview with contemporary artist Todd Kelly
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This week’s theme was: overwhelming. Many of the artworks and exhibitions I saw were so ambitious and large-scale that I felt consumed by the artist’s vision. In others, it was…
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We arrived at Blue Star Thursday night to a performance of Justin Randolph Thompson’s Tossin’ the Rag as part of his exhibition Meet Me in the Bottoms. A rag doll was…
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Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super smart curator and art historian…
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For Part I, click here. For Part II, click here. Why do certain artworks have such a lasting impact? To stay with me, artworks usually have to affect some kind…
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Laura Lark Loves You #2: Quake That Thing; California Uber Artists; Where’s a Man to Go?
by Laura Larkby Laura LarkQuestions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Welcome back to Laura Lark Loves You! Please excuse the lack of an umlaut in the…
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Box 13 ArtSpace on the east side of Houston just opened their first set of summer exhibitions featuring a roster of artists from around the world. At a time when…
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Finding this image: Made me think of this: Which reminded me of another book cover: Which made me think of Austin’s own: A family needs a home: and even better…
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Big cities with vibrant art scenes have big art fairs, right? Sure. So it stands to reason that Houston, home of lots of great art, should have one as well.…
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When it comes to art, using the word ‘crisis’ is always a massive overstatement. Between the crises in painting, criticism, and photography you’d think that art was in some real…