Do you believe in desensitization? Do you believe in the slippery slope?
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There’s always clamor in our world. Once again I’m glad for the artists who cut through the noise, noisily.
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'Flow' is the latest site-specific, room-sized installment in the Korean-born Ko’s series 'Forces of Nature.'
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“Rainbow in the Dark” was on heavy-metal band Dio’s first album Holy Diver. Released in 1983, “Rainbow in the Dark” was and is a mega-success with one strange music video. Ronnie James…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the fetishism of the American West, art versus design, and a DFW artist dealing with the history of police brutality.
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"I see the dancing as more of an extension of painting; feelings I cannot capture in my 2-D work.”
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The show: Project Marfa The venue: Octavia Art Gallery The city: Houston The date: July 8 Photographs by Lizette Belen Soto …
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Upon his retirement as longtime curator of the Galveston Arts Center, Glasstire sits down with Clint Willour to look back over the four decades he's spent helping shape the Texas art scene.
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I sometimes want to like this stuff, but the line between poetic rhetoric and bullshit is just too fuzzy.
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Artist Sued for $5 Million over Painting He (Allegedly) Didn’t Paint
by Glasstireby GlasstireArtist Peter Doig is being sued for at least $5 million over a painting that he may or may not have painted in the mid 1970s. Details below: The owner, a…
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Due to recent and rapid city development and increased property value, many artists can no longer afford to stay in east Austin. The city has a proposal for them.
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We are ripe for a rigorous, joyfully open-minded, unthemed, ongoing and regular survey of the best work being made in Texas.
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Back in 1973, Texas Monthly published a Guide to Houston. The audience the Guide hoped to attract was clear: “We hope that this volume will prove useful to the salesman just…
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It’s hot out. Cool down with this sweet ‘n strange video documenting a family’s snow day activities in 1960 and 1973 in Houston.
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Guest host Matt Stromberg joins Rainey Knudson in Los Angeles to run down some must-see shows for the summer.
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My problem here is not that the work is light and playful; it is that Ronay so casually references such immensely fraught symbolism in the name of play.
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There is so much distance between the objects and their referents. Zefeldt paints that distance into punchlines.
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This may be the most absurd Fourth of July article we’ve seen as of yet. Some highlights: Jason Galvin used a .22-caliber rifle to fire 150 shots at the rope and…
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This is how I learned this story, on Saturday mornings in the ’70s. Certainly one of the catchier Schoolhouse Rock tunes. (“That’s called taxation without representation, and it’s not fair.”) Happy…
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There’s no one story of any empire and there’s no one story of America. I’ve been telling my family’s story in my work for nearly 20 years now. I’ve only recently been thinking about what my identity as an American artist is.