The Southwest School of Art in San Antonio will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend with holiday markets, exhibition openings and a festival. The school is located on two separate campuses, the…
November 2015
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The Age of the Mollusk has ascended and we are all part of its evolution.
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When the Houston Festival Foundation announced a couple years ago that it was pulling out of Houston’s Thanksgiving Day Parade for financial reasons and, indeed, had already sold off many…
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This Saturday is the 13th annual Cedars Open Studio tour in Dallas, which has evolved along with the artist-packed neighborhood, just south of downtown. Beginning at noon and running to six p.m., this…
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Last weekend, the Glasstire crew was in Austin to see the East Austin Studio Tour (EAST) and shoot video/serve mimosas at their community breakfast. Here are some highlights from the trip. Apparently…
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"If there’s not someone in a giant cockroach costume reading Kafka, I’ll be disappointed."
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As Glasstire reported earlier this month, DiverseWorks signed a lease at the new Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH) and will be moving in about a month. So tomorrow…
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When we complain on these pages about Zombie Abstraction, we're not mindlessly echoing some established chorus for the sake of entertainment. We're expressing a real fatigue about market-driven pap that has no resonance, no interest in the world, and no future.
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Detroit Collective Brings Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Interactive, Social Justice, Music and Light Show to Dallas. Inside a Pod.
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIn February of 2015, the SMU Meadows School of the Arts announced the Detroit-based artist collective Complex Movements as a recipient of their annual arts prize, which includes a residency…
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As part of its 360: Artists, Critics, Curators lecture series, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas is bringing ceramic artist extraordinaire Edmund de Waal to the museum this Saturday afternoon for a talk.…
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"Let’s put it this way: any black person who hears about this will not lose sleep about it."
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When it drops 10 or 20 degrees below the sweaty humiliation known as summer in Texas, we realize the holiday season is sneaking up on us. For those getting anxious…
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"What’s the level of intoxication?" "Well, it was a tyranny of choice for them. They get to the table and there’s mimosas on one side and Bloody Marys on the other."
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This past weekend, Glasstire was in Austin for EAST and stopped by the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center to attend the Austin Zine Fest. However, there was a small handwritten sign on the…
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This past weekend, Paris suffered five coordinated attacks across the city. There has since been great solidarity shown for France, with world leaders condemning the attacks and many others reaching out…
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Individual artists have to fabricate purpose because human life does not inherently possess it.
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Austin Art in Public Places is capitalizing on the influx of events during the EAST weekend and hosting a party to celebrate thirty years of public art. Dubbed “Party for the People” (that’s…
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Charles Ray’s recent talk at the Menil was one of the most exciting talks I’ve heard in years.
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Yesterday, the Glasstire staff ran into Dorota Biczel, Jade Walker, Michael Smith, and all of the other speakers from today’s symposium, Experience In and Beyond the White Cube, at the VAC in Austin. The…
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UH Brain Study Finds Reactions to Dario Robleto’s Art Vary by Age and Gender
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonResearchers from the University of Houston (UH) have analyzed brain activity data collected from more than 400 people who viewed an exhibition at the Menil Collection, offering evidence that useable…