“Including some works that are well-known and others that are new or off the beaten path, this program will give participants an opportunity to get out and safely explore their city and its contemporary cultural scene.”
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Andrew Mellon Foundation Grants Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum $10K
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentThe Art Museum Futures Fund’s second round of grants includes 14 small-sized arts museums with strong and long-standing commitments to the local community and social justice.
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Photo Essay
Servers, Microbes and Subatomic Dust: Some Winter 2021 Exhibitions in Dallas
by William Sarradet 0 commentIn pictures, William Sarradet walks us through nine current gallery shows.
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The festival showcases artists, awards, food, drinks, and music on the Aransas Bay.
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Ruth Pastine at Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 comment"Painting on paper presented a new working methodology for Pastine through an intimacy in scale and immediacy in process."
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"It's not just the content of hate speech that is problematic. It's the algorithms that have funneled haters toward more hate."
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on trauma and response in San Antonio, physics in Beeville, and a visit to a new skylight in Houston.
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Senator Bernie Sanders wore a pair of mittens to the presidential inauguration and the internet can't get enough of it.
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The Teeter-Totter Wall Near El Paso Wins 2020 Design of the Year from UK’s Design Museum
by Christopher Blay 0 comment"We are totally surprised by this unexpected honor, which we share with the Juarez-based art collective, Colectivo Chopeke."
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“We look forward to welcoming our artists, sponsors, guests and nonprofit partners back to an in-person festival in the fall when we anticipate the City of Houston will allow large in-person gatherings.”
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[Sponsored] The New MFA in Social Practice Art at Sam Houston State University
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy Huete 0 commentSHSU will be a pioneer in the field: it will be the first and only Texas university to offer this degree program.
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Drive By
Richard Doherty’s Photographs of Life in 1980s and ’90s Dallas
by Christopher Blay 0 commentThroughout the pandemic, Doherty's photos, scanned from untold quantities of boxes full of negatives, have been posted weekly on the photographer's social media page.
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Yevgeniya Baras and Julia Haft-Candell at Inman Gallery, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 comment"'Parts of Speech' presents the art of two women, Yevgeniya Baras, a painter currently living and working in New York, and Julia Haft-Candell, a ceramicist based in Los Angeles."
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Notable past recipients include current Glasstire Digital Artist Resident Carolyn Sortor (2018) and recent Nasher Public artists Giovanni Valderas (2017) and Bernardo Vallarino (2020).
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News
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Announces Temporary Closure Due to Covid-19
by Christopher Blay 0 commentHCCC has also announced an open call for new residents, which will not be adversely affected by the temporary closure.
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Perez’s work draws from the borderlands tradition of hand-painted signage on businesses, known as rótulismo.
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During the shutdown, the acclaimed artist residency has a bit of extra room to host an informal writing residency in collaboration with Glasstire.
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Brandon Zech talks with Houston artist and Glasstire contributor Henry G. Sanchez about the challenges of public arts funding during a pandemic.
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Brackens participates in this cultural moment by “having bodies in repose or resting — doing anything but dying."
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Throughout the pandemic, CAMH has continued to offer public programs, albeit online.