Pop and hard-edge artist Robert Indiana, best known for his “LOVE” paintings and sculptures, died at his home on the coast of Maine this past Saturday, reports Hyperallergic and many…
May 2018
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Celebrate San Antonio’s Lone Star Neighborhood with a Parade & Picnic
by Glasstireby GlasstireThis coming Saturday, May 26, 2018, San Antonio’s Lone Star Neighborhood Association will host a parade and picnic in celebration of the association’s 20th anniversary and the city’s tricentennial. Participation in…
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Drive By
Right Here, Right Now: San Antonio at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
by Glasstireby GlasstireWhen museums have the guts to give shows to local artists, it transforms a city’s art scene, and the careers of the artists — just ask Los Angeles artists Ed…
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The strength of the show lies in the associations, references, and stories coiled in the works, like sleeping snakes.
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While we were impressed by the recent issuance of the U.S. Postal Service Mr. Rogers stamp, it is soon to introduce its first scratch-and-sniff stamps called the “Frozen Treats Forever”…
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Artadia has announced the five finalists for its ninth award cycle in Houston. Since 1999, Artadia has awarded over $3 million to more than 310 artists in Atlanta, Boston,…
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The provocative singer and composer Julius Eastman died homeless and forgotten in 1990, but a new book and exhibition have rekindled interest in his work.
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Last Friday, May 18, Houston’s Rothko Chapel was vandalized by an unknown person, reports Allyn West of the Houston Chronicle. Physical damage to the chapel and its surrounding grounds was limited —…
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Houston’s Project Row Houses (PRH) is offering bus tours of public art created by the founding artists of PRH. The tour will also feature discussions with artists Jesse Lott, Floyd…
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"Our ideas and imaginings of AI are clouded by the people and industries who develop the technology. This is why it is important that creative people — artists of all kinds — engage critically and imaginatively with emerging technology."
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This Thursday, May 24th, 2018, from 4-8PM, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth will host a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon aimed at expanding the site’s information about women involved in…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Judo All artists, in some way, shape, or form, are inspired by other artists. Sometimes those influences are obscured,…
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Review
Sticks and Stones: Works by Helen Altman at the Tyler Museum of Art
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechThis is the best exhibition of Altman’s work I’ve seen to date, partly because her art works especially well when it’s in dialogue with itself.
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It’s getting hotter in Texas, and that used to mean that galleries and museums would ease up on programming, throw up a three-month group exhibition, and wait out the summer…
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San Antonio’s Artpace is bringing back its popular “Resident Welcome Potluck.” The community tradition took a little break but returns to welcome its Summer 2018 International Artists-in-Residence, Zoë Charlton (Washington,…
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Obsessed with the ineffable frisson of live performances, the group Object Collection combed through recordings of more than 1000 hours of Fugazi performances, effectively keystroking through the songs to find moments of shock and surprise.
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If the art that comes after Childish Gambino’s 'This is America' video doesn’t move the needle in fixing whatever it is raging against, then we should stop making protest art, because it’s not working.
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News
Reminder For Austin Artists: $15,000 For Tito’s Prize, Open Call Until End of May
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe arts non-profit Big Medium in Austin announced last month that applications for the annual Tito’s Prize are open through May 31, 2018. The Prize awards one Austin-based artist $15,000…
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(Ed. note: the following is from a series of micro-reviews/show recommendations Glasstire produces monthly for Local Houston Magazine.) One thing you can always expect from an exhibition of works by…
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Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on a singing tree, a Fugazi concert without the songs, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s recent campus expansion.