Brandon Zech talks with artist Jules Buck Jones about the best pandemic reads and the wonders of nature. Also featured: an impromptu studio tour.
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"I think we’re all qualified to be astronauts now. We can all go to Mars."
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"The square and cube were both crucial elements in LeWitt’s vocabulary, both as elemental units and in reference to grids made by other artists throughout the twentieth century."
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech have an honest conversation about some realities they’re happy to get a break from.
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: A Conversation with Cassie Normandy at Rockport Center for the Arts
by Glasstireby Glasstire"Earthborn" features a dynamic cohort of artists who incorporate themes of the natural world.
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The largely European focus of Museum Week is not without input from US Museums, including Austin's Ransom Center.
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"This body of work lives in the diaphanous space between life and death, and is a memorial for the artist’s father."
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Brandon Zech talks with Houston-based artist Bucky Miller about the nature of photography, how to communicate through Instagram, and the complexities of photographing raccoons.
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Brandon Zech and Christina Rees talk about Marina Abramović, the Kennedy assassination, and why conspiracy theories and art tend not to mix.
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Review
Oh, Solitude: Gabriel García Márquez at the Harry Ransom Center, Austin
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoIt is fascinating to see the skeleton of such an awe-inspiring work in the form of drafts, notes, and marginalia.
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This is a list of songs that pull me out of the void while we wait for whatever new “normal” comes to be.
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This is the first solo museum exhibition in the United Stated of noted Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa.
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"'Where We Are' is an exploration and activation of a gray space that breaks down dichotomies and boundaries instated by race, gender, sex, history and politics."
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Top Five
Top Five: May 7, 2020. Ways Artists Are Creating During The Great Lockdown of 2020
by Glasstireby GlasstireChristopher Blay is joined by artist Colette Copeland to chat about five ways artists, organizations and spaces continue to get their work in front of an audience during the pandemic shutdown.
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Common Field had to achieve a hard pivot quickly, and with programming that entailed a lot of moving parts, so to speak. We appreciate the effort that went into this year's convening.
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: “The Ways They Are” at San Jacinto College South Campus Gallery, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire"The Ways They Are" brings together Houston-based artists Carris Adams, Sebastien Boncy, and Matt Manalo.
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"Nancy Rubins’ sculptures combine delicacy and indomitable strength, a polarity that is striking when encountered outdoors."
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Omar González at Presa House Gallery, San Antonio
by Glasstireby Glasstire"Homebound" is Omar González's University of Texas at San Antonio MFA thesis exhibition.
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Alice Leora Briggs & Julián Cardona at Art League Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire"'The Writing on the Wall' exhibits recent bodies of work addressing immigration and border politics in the city of Juárez, and features visual artwork created by Alice Leora Briggs in conjunction with her projects with Juárez reporter and photojournalist Julián Cardona."
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Looking Glass at Kinder HSPVA, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire"For our Visual Arts students who did not get to have a physical Senior Show, they have created a virtual show that will be able to celebrate their work with friends, family and the community."