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“The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” at the Dallas Museum of Art
I was prepared to hate the Gaultier exhibition at the DMA. I have a complicated relationship to fashion. I studied fashion design and merchandising at Pratt Institute in New York.…
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With the New Year comes a time for reflection. This year my annual reflection comes straight off the heels of a two-week trip to Austin. It’s always exciting to…
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A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I began binge viewing art documentaries. We started with Herb and Dorothy (2008), the story of an elderly middle-class couple whose private collection…
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Gold is on people’s minds a lot lately—more than usual, what with inflation worries, “End the Fed” protests and calls to return to a gold standard. People fear their dollar…
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Providing a behind-the-scenes peek at the work of San Antonio artists, Donna Simon, a retired Brackenridge High School art teacher, conducts guided tours of the city’s studios, artist-run spaces,…
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350 Words: Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher’s “Reel to Reel” at McClain Gallery
by Amy Davisby Amy DavisComposed of wall-mounted sculptures, sound and film, Reel to Reel, Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher’s current installation at McClain Gallery, holds small revelations about the nature of machinery, art, music—and…
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Glasstire’s contributors suss out the season’s most promising shows. AUSTIN Evidence of Houdini’s Return Arthouse/AMOA January 4 – March 4, 2012 Arthouse and AMOA are officially conjoined twins and, as…
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End-of-2011 recommendation: Justin Boyd’s boids at Artpace
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischYou have until the 31st to be enchanted and freaked out by Justin Boyd's magnificent sound sculpture, “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence" at Artpace. It's a Window Works visual/sound installation, so all you have to do is park out front and listen. "Open" 24 hours a day. Particularly enchanting at night. Don't miss this crazy thing.
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Back in 2001, our founder Rainey Knudson named this site in honor of Robert Rauschenberg’s cast glass tire sculptures. The glass tires were made at UrbanGlass, a nonprofit glass…
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This is Guillermina “Gisha” Zabala, an artist and filmmaker from Argentina who makes her home in San Antonio with her Uruguayan husband Enrique Lopetegui, music editor of the San…
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More highlights from what’s up around town right now. Check out these shows as you do your holiday shopping, or do your holiday shopping at these shows… Sicardi Gallery “Graciela…
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When art people ask, “Where did you grow up?” and I answer, “Arkansas,” there is, invariably, an awkward pause. It is usually followed by “Oh.” or “Oh. Really?” and occasionally,…
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There’s a lot of art out there now but here’s a quick overview of the good, the great, and the pretty darn respectable on view in some of Houston’s galleries. Isabella…
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Video exhibitions tend to be hit or miss. As someone who makes, curates and writes about video, I have seen my share of mediocre video work. Most recently I wrote…
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Three years ago when I returned to Houston from art school, I went to a talk for Project Row Houses’ Summer Studios. While there, I saw this tortilla press for…
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In his 2011 non-fiction book, Moonwalking with Einstein, author Joshua Foer befriends the professional “memory athlete” Ed Cooke who suggests to him that you can slow down subjective time by…
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Every writer has her biases and I’m no exception. If someone were to ask me if Abstract Expressionism were my favorite art genre, I would vehemently shake my head “no.”…
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I stand staring up at Solar Arrangement, Dave Muller’s sprawling mural at Cowboys Stadium. It’s 21 feet tall by 131 feet wide and extends over the bathrooms and the adjacent…
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My husband is like the other 99.5% of Americans who go to the movies to be entertained, not to think. So it is with some trepidation that I asked him…