Retrospectives are more often than not reserved for famous artists. Like the recent Luc Tuymans exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, these exhibitions are usually organized for large institutions…
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Mona Garcia is exactly what non-Texans expect a Texan to be. A native Houstonian, she comes from oil and ranching families. She’s polite, but unafraid to speak her mind. And…
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Dallas artist Lizzy Wetzel has a very strong personal iconography that draws on notions of the spiritual and supernatural from a variety of cultures. In addition to her intensely detailed…
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For those of you who watched Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, Peregrine Honig needs no introduction. If you didn’t watch, check out Keith Plocek’s weekly recaps on Hustletown, his Glasstire.com blog.…
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…what living in the country means: It’s sitting in a little bitty restaurant, looking out the window at a cow, but you only have powdered creamer for your coffee. —…
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The shaped canvas in contemporary painting has always irritated me. Simply because, for the most part, it seems to cry, “look! I’m making painting interesting and current and trying to…
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Dharma Bummed, But No Harm Done In the midst of the words he was trying to say In the midst of his laughter and glee He silently and quietly vanished…
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Essay
Iles & Rizzoli & Isles or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love TV
by Laura Larkby Laura LarkI am a lazy person. I get lazier. But I decided, a while back, that I would bravely go where many have gone before (Dallas) to see what many have…
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In Luc Tuymans’ 1997 painting Der Architekt, a man wearing skis has fallen in the snow. Almost monochromatic, the image is rendered in frosty blues that lean to black. The…
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In an attempt to convey the stunningly wide editorial berth Glasstire has given me regarding subject matter for this blog, I decided to go with the standard Hollywood naming convention…
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Weird, dreamlike forms that seem to be melting or vibrating, extreme color and kaleidoscopic space are characteristic of psychedelic art, which has usually been seen as the product of popular…
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Christina Patoski explores the jam-packed world of Julie and Bruce Webb, owners of Webb Gallery, an outsider art wonderland in Waxahachie. Christina Patoski is a journalist and photographer who…
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“How much does your house weigh?” – R. Buckminster Fuller The late American architect and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller was famous for seeing the world through an uncommon lens, a…
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From July 2 – August 1, Northpark Center is displaying an exhibit of various buildings in Downtown Dallas made entirely of Legos. These are HUGE models, many of which focus…
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I recently attended a press preview for The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. I especially wanted to see this show because it reminded…
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During the ten years that I was with Aurora Picture Show, I hosted at least 300 visiting artists, and gave almost that many tours of Houston. Like an old cabbie,…
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In the five years since the graduate school gates closed behind me with a tinny clatter (I’d like to say resounding clang, but really, it was more like a tinny…
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How could murderous African buffaloes have been cajoled into cow evolution? This steak shaped country where I was born even has a steer on its escudo [coat of arms]! How…
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It’s one thing to know that there are places on this planet that never get dark at certain times of year. It’s quite another thing to actually be somewhere where…
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Matthew Bourbon populates his paintings with figures handpicked from a variety of sources; viewing them is akin to channel surfing through the vast array of human folly available on late…