I don’t know the last time I saw the Milky Way. Supposedly, it’s always there above our heads, but you can’t see the stars in Arlington, or Dallas, or Austin,…
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Bernardo Vallarino and Dan Havel at Redbud Gallery, Houston
by Glasstireby GlasstireRedbud Gallery Director Tanja Peterson walks us through exhibitions featuring works by artists Dan Havel and Bernardo Vallarino.
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Gabriel Martinez at Anya Tish Gallery, Houston
by Glasstireby GlasstireArtist Gabriel Martinez walks us through his most recent exhibition, 'Desire Lines,' at Anya Tish Gallery in Houston.
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I was worried about the bears. Had they been phased out in my short time away? Had my last essay been an unwitting elegy?
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This week, San Antonio artist James Smolleck discusses how a 2012 show at Sala Diaz ignited a new spark in his work.
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Franceska & Millicent Alvarado at at Art Center of Corpus Christi
by Glasstireby GlasstireAn exhibition featuring works by artists Franceska Alvarado and Millicent Alvarado.
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Figure Painting Reinvented at Monterroso Gallery, Houston
by Glasstireby GlasstireA video tour of an exhibition at Monterroso Gallery in Houston, Texas featuring works by Tod Bailey, J.J. Baker and Vincent Blair.
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Bad-faith readings of other people’s intentions are built into their thinking.
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This week: constellation quilts on the Coast, small acts in Austin, and collaged steel in Dallas.
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Christopher Blay at Big Medium, Austin
by Glasstireby GlasstireA video tour of artist and curator Christopher Blay's exhibition at Big Medium in Austin, Texas.
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Five-Minute Tours
Five-Minute Tours: Dwayne Carter, Favio Moreno, and Narong Tintamusik at Plush Gallery, Dallas
by Glasstireby GlasstireA video tour of Dwayne Carter, Favio Moreno, and Narong Tintamusik's exhibitions at Plush Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
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Two Emily Peacock exhibitions in Houston use humor to mediate materials, mental health, and motherhood.
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"I think there is something vulnerable, yet a necessary vulnerability, about acknowledging how relation, love, sex, children, and survival are all mixed up."
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Today: Big Tex
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Podcast
Art Dirt: Artist Takes $83,000 from Danish Museum & Is Abstraction Dead?
by Glasstireby GlasstireChristina Rees and Brandon Zech discuss artist Jens Haaning's recent viral artwork, 'Take the Money and Run,' and also discuss David Hockney's recent essay about the state of abstraction.
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Former Casa Chuck resident artist and current Interim Director of Sala Diaz, Heyd Fontenot, considers various artist ecologies, cinematic and actual, and fantasizes a domicile to contain it all.
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Amy Werntz: Ordinary Moments, and Lloyd Brown: The Sky Should Know Me by Now (Recent Paintings of U.S. Highway 50), at Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Dallas, August 28–October…
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This week: a celebratory retrospective in Dallas, Cuban cars in Houston, and "waiting for it" in Austin.
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The threads of belief and disbelief are thoroughly interwoven into the fabric of Lisette Chavez’s art.
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Review
EVERYTHING IS GETTING OBSCENE EXCEPT OBSCENITY: Ken Havis at Webb Gallery
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisThe late Havis credited the military with providing his earliest access to the mysticism of Eastern cultures that’s evident in his art making, as well as the confidence to pursuit art at all.