A few days ago, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Windows 10 update would kill off Microsoft Paint. First released in 1985, Paint was widely used by designers, graphics editors, and bored children alike.…
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Don’t get me wrong: I’m grateful to see Ai Weiwei's work here in Texas, but its symbolic leverage is skewed here.
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Please allow us to direct you to a wonderful time-suck of a website called Typeset in the Future. The site, by Dave Addey, is “dedicated to typography and iconography as it…
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I've reverse-engineered my way through art history, while maintaining a mild obsession with Smithson and his work. It’s his fault I poured all that grease.
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How to make art in this operatic ambience and grim reality of actual deportations, bombings, and general governmental reactionary cruelty?
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Podcast
Art Dirt 8: Sex Robots, Scaramucci’s Mark Twain Tweet, When Artists’ Ideas Are Stolen
by Glasstireby GlasstireChristina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss this week's art news.
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I’m going to stop right there. Please stop reading and go.
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Take part in the coolest study abroad program: Semester at Sea. You take classes on a boat (12-15 credit hours) while logging 20,000+ nautical miles and exploring world. The Institute for Shipboard…
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My silly prodding created an opportunity for a profound and provocative response from the museum.
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on art you can drink from, art you can sink into, and a museum of toilet seats.
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Review
Why this Year’s Galveston Artist Residency Exhibition is Different
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechFor three artists so deeply tapped into the cultural consciousness to collectively experience an event as monumental as the election of Donald Trump, bonding and the sharing of a common sense of urgency seems inevitable.
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Art is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists is a collection of punchy and pithy quotes by big-name artists. It’s a Phaidon coffee-table book (toilet-reading book?) the…
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I wondered if the house was merely unfinished, or if the entire premise had become unresolvable.
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For all the controversy that comes along with using Toby Kamps as juror, the payoff is huge.
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Curtis may have achieved the impossible, but the project broke him physically, mentally, and romantically.
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Ad Reinhardt memorably said “sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.” In the case of the exhibition at The 14th Factory, a pop-up…
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When Houston really begins to believe in its own artists and puts more of its money where its heart is, Gulf Coast art might just light up like flaming oil on the surface of dirty water.
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American photographer Kevin Horan has taken what may be the most mysteriously beautiful photographs of pigs and goats we’ve ever seen. In a recent article on The Guardian, he spoke about…
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Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on a show too important to be called a summer show, emerging Latinx artists in Austin, and skewering a sacred cow.
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I did feel a pang of longing looking at this show despite the latticed dread it conjured.