Can we call Texas’ smattering of outward-looking, wealth-built institutions in semi-rural and rural places “regional,” and if not, what should we call them?
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While the exhibition looks unassuming, its intent is oddly ambitious: to make a case that for the sake of some kinds of meaningful communication, the post office and its mail system should be saved.
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BlogEssayGlasstireOp Ed
HAA Dogpile! Artists of Transported + Renewed Weigh In
by Glasstireby GlasstireAmid the blizzard of anti-HAA ink coming in from all quarters of the Houston art scene, Glasstire today received a collective letter from artists involved in T+R.
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On November 20, tensions between the powerful committee and the staff of HAA's Civic Arts + Design program erupted into an open break.
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To make political work without literally telling the viewer how he should think or feel is a tall order, yet Roberts pulls it off with empathy that is as ferocious as it is vulnerable.
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Dornith Doherty: Oasis and Celia Eberle: In the Garden of Ozymandias at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas
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If anything, the populations of most Texas cities, and along with it the populations of artists, are increasing, but the number of more traditional galleries with traditional business models feels stagnant.
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BlogEssayGlasstireOp Ed
Artist Ed Wilson’s Contract Withdrawn as $830,000 GRB Commission Process Collapses in Turmoil
A five-member selection panel chose Wilson for the plum job at the end of October. Last Thursday, HAA took it back.
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For your casual weekend perusal, if you wish, here is a set of quick responses I had to some (though not all) of the shows I saw in London last week.
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Chitchat on E.A.S.T., Houton Artcrawls then and now, One-painting shows, Marclay's Clock, and Peter Ligon vs Fairfield Porter.
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The wall text welcoming viewers to the exhibit begins with a quote from Testino where he states, “…when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost."
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During my years at SAMA, I marveled so many times as I witnessed Latino high school students with eyes glued to Alvarez's work. For many of them, it is their story too.
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For Pomara, experiencing a painting as an imaginary window has been replaced by the experience of looking at a screen: computer, TV, smartphone, or tablet.
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The remains of sea urchins and lost vinyl LPs become memorials to lost signals, disappearing space probes, fading heartbeats in Dario Robleto’s installation at the Menil Collection.
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You've just spent a week installing your show at a nonprofit art space and you realize that everyone helping you, from the director down to the part-time preparator and the gift shop clerk, is getting paid for his or her time, and you're not.
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A “cheat sheet” for arts documentaries and live cinema performances happening in Houston this Thursday-Sunday
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The Houston Cinema Arts Festival explores street photography and its extensions in film and video.
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Being a guest in someone’s home means entering another culture.
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Those who complain about the art world have some choices: 1) Accept things as they are and keep playing; 2) Collect your chips and in the words of Eric Cartman say, “Screw you guys, I’m going home,” or 3) Change the game.
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The 1972 Games in Munich will forever be associated with the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes who were kidnapped and murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.