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August 2017
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News
Austin Artist Included in 19 “Emerging Artists” at Studio Museum
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonSince 2001, the Studio Museum in Harlem has put on a cycle of exhibitions called the “F-series,” including Freestyle, Frequency, Fore, and Flow. This year’s F show is called Fictions,…
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The Texas Biennial 2017 has announced its dates, venue and artist list. Via the Texas Biennial: “Artists selected for TX★17 will be represented at a single venue, located at 211 E…
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As Glasstire reported a couple of months ago, Solange Knowles will soon be performing in Marfa at the Chinati Foundation. The Houston native musician and performance artist first debuted “Scales,”…
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Steeped in technique, Murray’s aim is contemporary. His target? The news.
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The Houston Endowment has announced that it is partnering with a network of community nonprofit groups to form the Houston Coalition Against Hate (HCAH), joining a number of Coalitions Against…
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News
UT Removes Confederate Statues Overnight; Bomb Attempt and Arrest in Houston Over Another Statue
by Glasstireby GlasstireOvernight last night the University of Texas at Austin removed three Confederate monuments from its campus. Via the New York Times: “Work to remove statues of two Confederate generals, Robert E.…
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This is activist art of the best sort. The overall effect is one of incantation, vigil and ritual.
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"After you’ve seen enough of my selfies, I become redundant and blurry, like telephone poles by the highway."
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If you didn’t get your special viewing glasses to view today’s solar eclipse, you can experience it through art. Twitter, of course, has its own “Eclipse Art Gallery,” which…
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I think there’s talent everywhere that we don't get to see, and I think that there are artists who are truly deserving and fascinating who we don’t discover.
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Derek Jeter, famed former Yankee shortstop, is a new owner of the Miami Marlins, and one of his first priorities is to get rid of Red Grooms’ big kinetic stadium…
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Drive By
No Longer Art (Yet Another Proposal for Removed Confederate Statues)
by Glasstireby GlasstireThis week the media is brimming with ideas for getting rid of suddenly-generally-unwanted statues to the Confederacy. It’s easy to imagine that 50 years from now, it will seem crazy that we had…
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Via the New York Times and the LA Times: All 17 members of President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned today. This is the “latest group to protest Donald J. Trump’s…
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After two years of perfecting her process, Crombach returned to Austin to curate a show at Co-Lab Projects' DEMO Gallery.
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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is asking the City to look into getting rid of the monument to the “Spirit of the Confederacy” in Houston’s Sam Houston Park, erected in 1908…
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The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has announced that is has received a gift of seven works by American abstract painter Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996).…
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Some artists make political work, but some artists should take it literally and run for political office. The New York–based arts advocacy group Fractured Atlas is launching a non-partisan “boot…
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"Do you think that you shall never see an artwork as lovely as a tree?”
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Really looking forward to seeing this. Touko Valio Laaksonen (1920-1991) made a name for himself as Tom of Finland, the Helsinki-based homoerotic illustrator who pioneered so much of our post-WWII queer…