In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, many people throughout Texas need all the help they can get. Coastal shelters need volunteers, food, clothing and other items, and organizations assisting with the…
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August 28, 2017. 11:51AM. Pablo Cardoza, the owner of Cardoza Fine Art in Houston, sent Glasstire this video of floodwaters in his home and gallery space. Located in the northernmost part…
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Artnet recently published an interview with Austin Mike Mitchell, creator of the swastika-inspired logo that’s increasingly being seen on the Internet and at anti-Trump rallies. Says Mitchell, “I feel about…
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No Longer Art (Yet Another Proposal for Removed Confederate Statues)
by Glasstireby GlasstireThis week the media is brimming with ideas for getting rid of suddenly-generally-unwanted statues to the Confederacy. It’s easy to imagine that 50 years from now, it will seem crazy that we had…
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Really looking forward to seeing this. Touko Valio Laaksonen (1920-1991) made a name for himself as Tom of Finland, the Helsinki-based homoerotic illustrator who pioneered so much of our post-WWII queer…
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It was recently revealed that Salvador Dalí’s mustache is still intact on his corpse, nearly 30 years after his death. (A woman claiming to be his daughter won a court battle…
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Cindy Sherman, the legendary photographer and filmmaker famous for taking staged portraits of herself in which she embodies archetypal female roles, recently made her Instagram account public. The account was…
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The Home Depot online gardening section has gotten a lot more tranquil. There are two spectacular GIFs on the main page for the “Outdoor Power Equipment” and “Lawn Care” sections that take on…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Chromophobia Earlier this year, Princeton University Press published Red: The History of a Color, the latest in their series of…
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A few days ago, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Windows 10 update would kill off Microsoft Paint. First released in 1985, Paint was widely used by designers, graphics editors, and bored children alike.…
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Please allow us to direct you to a wonderful time-suck of a website called Typeset in the Future. The site, by Dave Addey, is “dedicated to typography and iconography as it…
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Take part in the coolest study abroad program: Semester at Sea. You take classes on a boat (12-15 credit hours) while logging 20,000+ nautical miles and exploring world. The Institute for Shipboard…
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Art is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists is a collection of punchy and pithy quotes by big-name artists. It’s a Phaidon coffee-table book (toilet-reading book?) the…
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Ad Reinhardt memorably said “sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.” In the case of the exhibition at The 14th Factory, a pop-up…
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American photographer Kevin Horan has taken what may be the most mysteriously beautiful photographs of pigs and goats we’ve ever seen. In a recent article on The Guardian, he spoke about…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Playing with Light ************* No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else…
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Austin: Between dips at Barton Springs and Deep Eddy in the next week, try to stop downtown to take in Bing Wright’s first show at Lora Reynolds Gallery. The New York-based artist’s…
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We have reported before on Glasstire on how hip and trendy enamel pins have become—some feature beloved moments from art history, others pay tribute to fallen pop icons, and others are just…
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Ashton Thornhill’s solo photography show, Texas Noir, is up at The Grace Museum in Abilene in conjunction with the big group show As Is: Rural Realism. Both exhibitions depict the…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. – Ed. Today: Independence It’s the 4th of July. In the spirit of self-evidence, we’ve rounded up the American flag artworks…