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A giant polymer concrete cabbage cannot tell you what it means; it can only be what it is.

I have assets: I collect snowman art.

Texas produced a lot of art in 2020, and Glasstire kept covering it.

They rise round and smooth from fields of concrete as if gently nudged upward by a giant underground fingertip. 

This article is the second in an annual exploration of Catrina-related phenomena in art and popular culture written for Glasstire.

Tooling down South Flores Street from one thrift store to another in April 2014, I passed what has become one of my favorite works of art in San Antonio.

We assess what traditions and assumptions have been handed down, and decide if we want to carry them forward.

I agonize over an essay I wrote in back in April. Little did I know that two months to the day, I would be released from a six-day stay at a mental rehabilitation facility (to put it nicely) — a psych ward.

Texas oil money has never procured a collection of oil-on-canvas works nearly as magnificent as that of Charles and Jayne Wrightsman, who were the preeminent patrons of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the last half-century.

I’d noticed the building’s subtle architectural flourishes and its sense of faded grandeur. Only later did I learn of its historical significance.

Paula Newton lived. Not just existed, but Lived.

El siguiente texto es la tercera parte de tres crónicas de arte y viaje escritas por la autora y curadora, Leslie Moody Castro.

Yet another artist-run space is having its monthly performance blowout practically in the middle of the city.

Glasstire’s William Sarradet was invited by the Belgium-based gallery Harlan Levey Projects to be a writer in residence for one month in Brussels. In this series, Sarradet relays his findings on art and life in that city.

Glasstire’s William Sarradet was invited by the Belgium-based gallery Harlan Levey Projects to be a writer in residence for one month in Brussels. In this series, Sarradet relays his findings on art and life in that city.  

(Note: This is the eighth installment in a series of stories published in conjunction with the traveling project ‘Altered States’ which opened November 2016 and is still on the move. For Part One, go here. For Part Two, go…

Casi de inmediato todo se volvió más complicado en Monterrey.

In order for watching movies to not feel like work, there has to exist the possibility of movies like Dune.

Mexico City is place of wonder. You never know what you will find around the next corner.

Why did Catrina become so popular, so central to Mexican artistic and cultural identity?