An interesting fact you may have noticed in the current gun debate: it is illegal to possess brass knuckles in Texas, along with several other states. That’s correct: thanks…
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Last week we reported that an older, massive work by San Antonio artist Gary Sweeney had been acquired by the city of San Antonio and installed permanently in the Henry B.…
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Yesterday our friends over at Dallas’ Art & Seek published a nice story that demystifies the recent appearance of the small, house-shaped piñatas that have been popping up in…
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Glasstire has long been a big fan of Austin-based Christeene, the self-described “human pissoir of raw unabashed sexuality; a gender-blending, booty-pounding, perversion of punk fully equipped with an arsenal of…
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Last Saturday, on the last morning of a New York City trip, Glasstire was walked (in fresh snow) by a host in the Washington Heights neighborhood to the Hudson River…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Prescience As seen in the exhibition Josef Albers in Mexico, on view at the Guggenheim Museum through February…
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In 1977, guests at an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston famously got involved in a food fight using the work of Antonio Miralda, the pioneering food artist. The…
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Today, November 3, Houston is halting its normal Friday activities to celebrate the Houston Astros’ 2017 World Series win. With a huge public parade in store and Houston ISD students getting…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Misplacement Occasionally, objects are intentionally placed in a way that doesn’t make sense. Other times, however, the misplacement is…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Store Bought This weekend the New York Times published an article about Claes Oldenburg which included a slideshow…
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About twenty miles north of Marfa lies the small, sleepy town of Fort Davis. With a population of 1,201, the town offers a handful of restaurants, activities, and shops, some of…
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Gizmodo published an entertaining and thought-provoking interview today with two contributors to the new book Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence published by California Polytechnic State University. The whole book tackles…
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Last October, Tom Hanks hosted Saturday Night Live’s Halloween show and debuted a character that took the world by storm. Flanked by two dancing skeletons, David S. Pumpkins (the “S”…
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Earlier this year, Glasstire reported that a Madrid judge ordered the exhumation of Salvador Dalí’s remains to settle a paternity suit filed against the artist. The Dalí Foundation wasn’t pleased and tried to appeal…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Two Men Walk Into An Artwork This week The Yes Men are giving a talk at the University…
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Some of us at Glasstire aren’t particularly prone to clicking through on the click-baity social media ads and lists and quizzes posted by friends. But this is a pretty entertaining…
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As first reported in Mashable, the French artist JR (a.k.a. “The French Banksy”) has mounted a 30-foot tall image of a baby overlooking the fence at the Mexican border at…
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‘Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell’ is a Youtube channel dedicated to “explaining things with optimistic nihilism.” It’s brought to us by a Munich-based outfit that launched the channel in 2013,…
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Thanks to the BBC, which produced this video of Houston’s poet laureate, Deborah “DEEP” Mouton, reading a poem for the city. “We haven’t lost everything, we just have it all to…