Interview

Shirin Neshat's retrospective exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is made up of her acclaimed oeuvre of photography, video and film from the past 30 years.

"Architecture is always the jumping off point for me."

Watkins was recently designated by Houston Center for Contemporary Craft as a Texas Master.

Welcome to "In Residence," a new interview series that introduces readers to artists who come to Texas from other parts of the country — and other parts of the world — to participate in artist residency programs. 

“A lot of the artists [here],  you grow up with them in the neighborhood, you just go from playing video games together to writing grants together. That's the path: playing outside, playing video games, grants. ” 

"Latinx art is still waiting to be taken up by museum acquisitions and a collector base. It’s an art still in the process of legitimation."

"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." 

"It's not just the content of hate speech that is problematic. It's the algorithms that have funneled haters toward more hate."

"My relationship with the border has led to the quest of understanding the space of the borders by attempting to materialize an intangible exchange."

Christopher Blay hosts Jonathan Morris, a Fort Worth Entrepreneur and community leader. They talk about the marriage of art and commerce, and how Morris' Hotel Dryce You Are Here Art Grant could help build an inclusive community in Fort Worth.

For the past 40 years, Deborah Butterfield has been creating large-scale sculptures of horses. Her work is currently on view at The Old Jail Art Center in Albany.

Christopher Blay and Bernardo Vallarino discuss Vallarino's work, which addresses the hollow sentiments of “Thoughts and Prayers” in the face of violence in society.

The first installment in Glasstire's video and audio podcast series, Artist on Artist, in which Glasstire's News Editor Christopher Blay, also an artist, hosts Texas-based artists and art professionals in one-on-one conversations.

Here Lauren Moya Ford is in conversation with curator and artist Jesus Treviño and artists Cande Aguilar, Jessie Burciaga, and Samantha Isabel García about how a current show at UT Austin speaks to the Borderlands and its soulful hidden currents.

"Every day try to be more human, and less of a consumer." 

The Dallas-based artist and curator of experimental film and new media is off to Cairo to teach for two years! Christina Rees chats with him about the adjunct teaching racket, opportunities for American artists overseas, and how his new city may influence his work.

"'Offerings' needs to be shown literally across the street from a police station. It deserves it."

"The moment we listen, we care about ourselves. How resistant is that?"

"It takes all of us, but as individuals we need to stand up, open our eyes, be brave and realize this is not the America we should be living in."

Porch Swing Orchestra has the feel of a personal experience, a recording you would make for yourself and not something to be shared for "likes."