"Emigrating and maintaining close relationships seemed to be two incompatible concepts. But they turned out not to be."
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Five-Minute Tours: 147 Devices for Integrated Principles at Big Medium, Austin
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe exhibition is informed by the artists’ experiences during Hurricane Harvey.
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"Living in these characters gives me a freedom to explore what it feels like to embrace emotion and let it do what it needs to — through sadness or confusion or strange sexiness or filth or isolation."
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Boomtown Bohemian: Basil Clemons’ Photographs at the Old Jail Art Center
by Gene Fowlerby Gene FowlerClemons’ photographs have a hardscrabble grace about them, with a rawboned edge that is sweetened with Main Street exoticism.
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In pictures, William Sarradet walks us through nine current gallery shows.
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Five-Minute Tours: Ruth Pastine at Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire"Painting on paper presented a new working methodology for Pastine through an intimacy in scale and immediacy in process."
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"It's not just the content of hate speech that is problematic. It's the algorithms that have funneled haters toward more hate."
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on trauma and response in San Antonio, physics in Beeville, and a visit to a new skylight in Houston.
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Senator Bernie Sanders wore a pair of mittens to the presidential inauguration and the internet can't get enough of it.
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[Sponsored] The New MFA in Social Practice Art at Sam Houston State University
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteSHSU will be a pioneer in the field: it will be the first and only Texas university to offer this degree program.
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Throughout the pandemic, Doherty's photos, scanned from untold quantities of boxes full of negatives, have been posted weekly on the photographer's social media page.
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Five-Minute Tours: Yevgeniya Baras and Julia Haft-Candell at Inman Gallery, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire"'Parts of Speech' presents the art of two women, Yevgeniya Baras, a painter currently living and working in New York, and Julia Haft-Candell, a ceramicist based in Los Angeles."
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Perez’s work draws from the borderlands tradition of hand-painted signage on businesses, known as rótulismo.
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During the shutdown, the acclaimed artist residency has a bit of extra room to host an informal writing residency in collaboration with Glasstire.
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Brandon Zech talks with Houston artist and Glasstire contributor Henry G. Sanchez about the challenges of public arts funding during a pandemic.
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Brackens participates in this cultural moment by “having bodies in repose or resting — doing anything but dying."
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I have assets: I collect snowman art.
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Until next year (fingers, toes, and everything else crossed): Here are a dozen images from last year's parade. Happy MLK Day!
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Five-Minute Tours: The David E. Brauer Collection at the Mobile Museum of Art
by Glasstireby Glasstire"This exhibition explores the question, 'what does an art historian collect?'"
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Christopher Blay and William Sarradet on experimentation in art-making, the Texas Sculpture Group, and an artist who tackles the idea of the white picket fence.