The sound drifting in from the headphones creates a virtual reality that is as unsettling and seductive as peyote.
Sarah Fisch
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GlasstireOp Ed
Chupacabrona, California (Two: Grad school confidential)
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischAm I a washout as a modern American thinker if I have trouble learning Photoshop? ...Yes, right? Shit.
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Hey y’all. This morning, I went to an intro to meditation workshop held at Shambhala Center Los Angeles. I woke up early to go! To a meditation workshop! it felt…
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A midcareer retrospective of the exuberant and far-reaching Radcliffe Bailey takes on African American history, to world-expanding effect.
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There’s been a grave interruption in my tour reporting, I realize. Rigoberto Gonzalez Facebooked me thusly the other day: WTF? (I’m paraphrasing). Here’s what happened: from January through May, I amassed…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part II
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischContinued from Part I… V. Reynosa, Narcolandia and sad, sad data It’s important to point out that Rigoberto Gonzalez is not a Chicano artist, though he shares a lot of…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part I
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischRigoberto Gonzalez applies Baroque technique to scenes of narcoviolence. The result isn't journalism, but epic poetry.
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GlasstireOp Ed
The Chupacabrona Tour, Part 2: On South Texas Identity, or The Wild Nudes of McAllen
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischSouth Texas: vast, under appreciated, and misunderstood, Also: naked. Check it out.
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Did you go to this thing? Houston’s Art Ball — aka Disaster Ball, a fundraiser for this here publication, it was. I went all the way from San Antonio. I…
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Wherein your narrator is roped into a dangerous collaboration in NYC, by dint of being from Texas.
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Glasstire’s contributors suss out the season’s most promising shows. AUSTIN Evidence of Houdini’s Return Arthouse/AMOA January 4 – March 4, 2012 Arthouse and AMOA are officially conjoined twins and, as…
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GlasstireOp Ed
End-of-2011 recommendation: Justin Boyd’s boids at Artpace
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischYou have until the 31st to be enchanted and freaked out by Justin Boyd's magnificent sound sculpture, “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence" at Artpace. It's a Window Works visual/sound installation, so all you have to do is park out front and listen. "Open" 24 hours a day. Particularly enchanting at night. Don't miss this crazy thing.
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Follow Chupacabrona across the Rio Grande Valley, along the border, and into West Texas, and see challenging contemporary work from this under-reported region. You can donate, too.
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The Chupacabrona Tour: One woman, a car, a computer and a camera set out to cover challenging contemporary art in South and West Texas.
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Queer State(s) at the UT Visual Art Center: Out of Nowhere
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischA generation after coming-out stories, AIDS and activism, and LGBT and transgender media celebrities, what does contemporary Queer art mean now?
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Mind your Ps and Qs: my peeves and qualms about the Texas Contemporary Art Fair.
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Look, these are all gonna be iPhone photos. I’m sorry about that. Soon as I can, I plan to purchase a real camera, but meanwhile, this is what I’ve got…
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BlogGlasstireOp Ed
Potter Belmar Labs in SA and Aaron Forland’s guerrilla public art: Goodbye to all that (fer now)
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischAaron Forland, San Antonio visual artist, SA’s unofficial DIY/underground/punk rock historian and creator of the “Keep San Antonio Lame” meme, has been and continues to extol the paradoxical and…
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Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 –…
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September 10 will mark the one year anniversary of Douglas Britt’s notorious and fantastic e-mail (which made Gawker!) “Houston Chronicle art coverage in the post-Preview era – Part 2”. (If…