Glasstire

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations.

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees on an Englishman’s take on Texas, the ruin of Trump’s Taj Mahal, and an online show of short videos that caters to corona brain.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech talk about the opening of the MFAH's landmark new building for modern and contemporary art.

Artists include Elizabeth Chapin, Emma Hadzi Antich, CP Harrison, Meena Matocha, Hayley Morrison, Saul Jerome San Juan, and Meghan Shogan.

"Aguilera and Makonnen tried to give form to the overwhelming personal and collective emotions of rage, disappointment, exhaustion and bruised hope that they experienced in the last six months."

Christina Rees and artist Emily Peacock bring you a horse show in Albany, a vision for a Latinx museum, and the grand opening of the MFAH’s long-awaited new building.

Senior Curator Andrea Karnes speaks about the installation. Artists include Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Yasumasa Morimura, Carrie Mae Weems, Martine Gutierrez, Kehinde Wiley, and Rineke Dijkstra.

"The ceramic works in the show are abstract but very much tell a story of her life in 2020."

"Through three different artistic disciplines, such as fiber art, sculpture and painting, Nela Garzón questions the mercantile and disposable paradigm of objects in conflict with cultural identities."

"Drennan’s installation connects street and sky through found textiles that provide a message of hope; Bradford’s found photographs are altered through embroidery to literally and metaphorically bind people together in a time of longing and uncertainty."

Christopher Blay and William Sarradet on a show about Black hair, an artist creating voids in space, and another artist's take on the grit and grind of the working class.

Christopher Blay, Christina Rees, and Brandon Zech talk about what the recent postponement of a show of works by Philip Guston says about museums and culture today. 

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees on the solo debut of a Texas transplant, a show about sanctuary cities, and a show of disappearing Austin.

"Williams' paintings often depict lonely places, the air thick with isolation and dread, like an image by Hopper crossed with a scene from a Cohen brothers' movie."

Featured artists include Helen Altman, Billy Hassell, Jules Buck Jones, Lance Letscher, Emily Peacock, Julie Speed, and many others.

"For almost two decades, Federico Archuleta has been a part of Austin’s landscape."

"The thing about our pasts — they will follow us around until we address them and let them go."

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees on a power nap for 2020, the creative advantage of dyslexia, and a show in Austin titled "People the We."

Frasier is a doctoral student at UTSA in the Anthropology Department, where she studies cultural sustainability in the face of gentrification. 

"Cabrales’ multi-media installations and sculptures combine playful — even comic — imagination with today’s headline topics: immigration, financial disarray, consumerism, and terrorism."