Gunnar Birkerts, an acclaimed Latvian-American architect based in Michigan, died on Tuesday, August 15 at the age of 92. Birkerts designed the iconic Contemporary Art Museum Houston building, which opened…
August 2017
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Article
A Day in the Mahatma Gandhi District: A Proposal for a Future of “Sprawlsteading”
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoHouston personifies both the grim reality of sprawl retail and its possible salvation. There is no reason suburbs and sprawl have to suck.
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Tonight, August 16, 6-8pm, hang out with the film community and chat with film programmers from Austin’s SXSW Film Conference & Festival. Houston’s Aurora Picture Show teams up with the…
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On Sunday, November 5 at the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Dallas Architecture Forum will host a moderated conversation with Jenny Moore of The Chinati Foundation in Marfa and Joseph Thompson of MASS MoCA (Massachusetts…
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The Arts District Houston is a state-recognized cultural district in Houston and home to several converted warehouse studio buildings consisting of more than 300 studios of artists and creative entrepreneurs, as well…
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Someone named “Herrozzy” has put together a compilation of scenes from the recent movie Alien: Covenant and compared them to images from art history. Some are more obvious than others,…
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Christina Rees and Michael Bise discuss why drawing is (still) so crucial for artists.
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The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (MACJ) are teaming up for the the fifth annual Transborder Biennial 2018. Early this fall the…
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A few months ago, Glasstire reported on the upcoming lower Manhattan New York show, DoGUMENTA, an exhibition for dogs. The three day DoGUMENTA, which took place August 11-13, was a…
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The Tyler Museum of Art has announced that John Biggers’ newly restored mural A History of Education in Morris County will be on view at the museum from August 20 to…
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Podcast
Art Dirt 9: Please Stop Painting the Electrical Boxes (a discussion)
by Glasstireby Glasstire"If you're arguing that it's OK that these things aren't very good, then you're making an argument for mediocrity."
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The 8th episode of Not a Hobby features Cathy Fairbanks, an artist living and working in Los Angeles.
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For the past few days, the Asia Society Texas center in Houston has been hosting Tibetan Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery who have been constructing a mandala made out of sand.…
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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a program called The Museum Workout, which it describes as “part gallery tour, part dance performance, part workout.” Choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes…
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Some clever soul or souls has launched an Instagram profile: “Donald J Trump – Art Critic.” This Trump describes himself as an “Art Critic based in New York & President…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on young artists rediscovering an old craft, the coolest-looking art space in Dallas, and how the Texas art scene didn't take a break this summer.
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Local residents and a tape art crew covered the Amarillo Police Department in colored painter’s tape yesterday, August 9, reports the Amarillo Globe-News. “It’s a simple image of police officers…
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It was recently revealed that Salvador Dalí’s mustache is still intact on his corpse, nearly 30 years after his death. (A woman claiming to be his daughter won a court battle…
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The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC), which is based in San Antonio, has announced the 12th funding cycle for its grants “…with new opportunities and updates for…
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In Starwars’ work, you get exactly what you’d expect from a Laurel, Mississippi-based artist: melting ice cream cones, gators, wood-paneled interiors, and banjo playing goats.