If you didn’t get your special viewing glasses to view today’s solar eclipse, you can experience it through art. Twitter, of course, has its own “Eclipse Art Gallery,” which…
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Derek Jeter, famed former Yankee shortstop, is a new owner of the Miami Marlins, and one of his first priorities is to get rid of Red Grooms’ big kinetic stadium…
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Via the New York Times and the LA Times: All 17 members of President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned today. This is the “latest group to protest Donald J. Trump’s…
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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is asking the City to look into getting rid of the monument to the “Spirit of the Confederacy” in Houston’s Sam Houston Park, erected in 1908…
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The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has announced that is has received a gift of seven works by American abstract painter Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996).…
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Some artists make political work, but some artists should take it literally and run for political office. The New York–based arts advocacy group Fractured Atlas is launching a non-partisan “boot…
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Gunnar Birkerts, an acclaimed Latvian-American architect based in Michigan, died on Tuesday, August 15 at the age of 92. Birkerts designed the iconic Contemporary Art Museum Houston building, which opened…
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Tonight, August 16, 6-8pm, hang out with the film community and chat with film programmers from Austin’s SXSW Film Conference & Festival. Houston’s Aurora Picture Show teams up with the…
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On Sunday, November 5 at the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Dallas Architecture Forum will host a moderated conversation with Jenny Moore of The Chinati Foundation in Marfa and Joseph Thompson of MASS MoCA (Massachusetts…
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Someone named “Herrozzy” has put together a compilation of scenes from the recent movie Alien: Covenant and compared them to images from art history. Some are more obvious than others,…
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The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (MACJ) are teaming up for the the fifth annual Transborder Biennial 2018. Early this fall the…
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A few months ago, Glasstire reported on the upcoming lower Manhattan New York show, DoGUMENTA, an exhibition for dogs. The three day DoGUMENTA, which took place August 11-13, was a…
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The Tyler Museum of Art has announced that John Biggers’ newly restored mural A History of Education in Morris County will be on view at the museum from August 20 to…
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For the past few days, the Asia Society Texas center in Houston has been hosting Tibetan Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery who have been constructing a mandala made out of sand.…
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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a program called The Museum Workout, which it describes as “part gallery tour, part dance performance, part workout.” Choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes…
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Some clever soul or souls has launched an Instagram profile: “Donald J Trump – Art Critic.” This Trump describes himself as an “Art Critic based in New York & President…
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Local residents and a tape art crew covered the Amarillo Police Department in colored painter’s tape yesterday, August 9, reports the Amarillo Globe-News. “It’s a simple image of police officers…
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The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC), which is based in San Antonio, has announced the 12th funding cycle for its grants “…with new opportunities and updates for…
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Everyone deserves the joyous opportunity of expression through the visual arts, including Brad Pitt, Pierce Brosnan, Tony Bennett, Sylvester Stallone, Miley Cyrus, and James Franco. Actor/comedian Jim Carrey now joins…
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There’s a revamped art-streaming app called Loupe, and New York Magazine recently featured a preview of it, claiming “This App Is Like Spotify for Art Lovers.” Former music producer Dot Bustelo is…