This summer, Ballroom Marfa hired a new curator, Mike Bianco. He replaces Alicia Ritson, who began the graduate program at the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies this fall.…
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Debra Sugerman is the creator and former co-director of the Creativity for Peace Camp, which brings together teenage girls from Israel and Palestine in an attempt to break down barriers…
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The spacious studio of Dallas native Ludwig Schwarz has beautiful natural light. The ceiling is covered with old pressed tin tiles and the paint-splattered wooden floor tells stories of past…
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In her review of Kate Carr’s October 2009 exhibition at Box Gallery for Art In America, Harmony Hammond positioned the artist as a feminist foil to minimalism. Although Carr’s work fits into a minimalist aesthetic,…
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The Chinati Foundation holds its annual October open house weekend this Thursday through Sunday. You can read all about the museum-sponsored events on the foundation’s website, but it’s way harder to track…
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Sometimes the activities one assumes are just pleasant diversions from the real substance of life produce almost sacred experiences. Such is the case with the free "Bounce" workshop, led by…
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Receipts, parking stubs, old newspapers, plastic bags, crumpled cans, worn down slivers of soap and hotel-size shampoo are the stuff of Gabriel Kuri’s art. Kuri has a particular fascination with…
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Panel (left to right): Jake Zollie Harper, artist; Beto Gonzales, artist; Ed Saavedra, curator; Justin Parr, curator; Derek Allen Brown, artist; and Jeremiah Teutsch, artist. In making art, failure is…
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The pursuits of a contemporary artist, particularly one whose work is largely conceptual or not lucrative—often both—is a subject about which the general public has little understanding. Many MFA recipients…
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For many travelers, the most convenient way to get to Marfa involves flying to El Paso and then driving three hours east. The short trip from the El Paso International…
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Texas-based artist Peter Rand took footage from a Donald Judd exhibition at Tina Kim gallery in New York and overlaid sound from the Double Rainbow viral video. It’s a…
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Essay
The Worst Piece of Art I Ever Made: The Best Piece of Art I Never Made
by Laura Larkby Laura LarkSince 1992, I’ve lived around the corner from a convenience establishment called Al Quick-Stop. It’s owned by Zak El Saadi, a rather handsome Lebanese man of whom I’ve always been…
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When it comes to making sculptures, Matt Wedel likes to keep it real. “I am interested in the work not trying to be an illusion of something,” he says. …
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There’s one week left to see Native American Works on Paper at the El Paso Museum of Art. After five months of display, the exhibition in the museum’s first floor Gateway Gallery closes…
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In his spatial intervention at Artpace, New York artist Corey McCorkle used air conditioning vents to connect his second floor artist’s apartment to his first floor studio, emphasizing the…
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Our best guesses for Fall 2010… Albany The Old Jail Art Center Harry Geffert September 25, 2010 – January 23, 2011 Harry Geffert is arguably the granddaddy of all those…
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You’ve come to expect insightful commentary and hard-hitting reporting from No Country for Old Interns on Glasstire.com, and this post is no exception. The Chinati Foundation may house permanent installations…
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To create Timelapse: 54 Days, Lincoln Street, Marfa-based artist Martha Hughes completed 54 paintings of the same subject—her kitchen table. Over the course of a year, Hughes photographed the…
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For some reason, the administration at Texas Southern University recently painted over two really beautiful murals. They were created by Harvey Johnson, a long time professor and my own drawing…
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Maybe you watched the reality TV show “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.” Maybe you enjoyed it, or maybe you want Bravo to give you those years of your…