He loves me, he loves me not… When does a work of art slide out of the defining, albeit hazy boundaries of artwork and into something else entirely: sociology, anthropology,…
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The following is the text of Anjali Gupta‘s remarks from the College Art Association panel discussion, Can Anyone Be a Critic? The Collision between Traditional Criticism and Blogging. Is blogging…
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The El Paso art scene, never very robust from a commercial gallery standpoint, is taking some hits. For a very long time now, the Hal Marcus Gallery and the Adair…
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Originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, Mads Lynnerup is drawing attention to himself across the globe with his performance art, videos, installations and what art people call “social sculpture.” He uses everyday…
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Usually I ignore my bulk email folder, letting the hundreds of pieces of garbage quietly collect themselves and just as quickly and deliciously, sweep themselves away without my knowledge. However…
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The Worst Piece of Art I Ever Made: Unicorns, Unicorns, Unicorns or How I Learned to Love the Bomb
by Beth Secorby Beth SecorI have made many bad pieces of art in my lifetime, and so it is difficult to decide which of those artworks truly deserves to be called The Worst Piece…
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Invited by Ballet Austin to create an original libretto, Trenton Doyle Hancock is translating his visual art to the stage. In collaboration with Stephen Mills, the artistic director of Ballet…
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Film animation is fun because it’s accessible, meaning there’s no pressure to “get it” in an artsy-serious intellectual way. One can take a scholarly interest, search for literary allusions or…
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It was Sunday, January 6, 2008, at 11:09 p.m. I was looking forward to sleeping hard that night. I’d been moving for the past four days, and I was tired.…
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The Worst Piece of Art I Ever Made: The Drawing that Doomed Dan Rather
by Dolan Smithby Dolan SmithOther than the time I was stabbed in the face with a spear by my brother, or the other time when he threw me head first into the TV set…
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It’s always a risky proposition to recommend shows before they open, but what the hell… Austin New Art in Austin Austin Museum of Art February 15 – May 11, 2008…
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In art, there are all kinds of things you should read, like that dusty copy of Baudrillard sitting on your nightstand. Unfortunately there are no French philosophers on Glasstire’s staff,…
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The air surrounding Maccarone Gallery booth at Art Basel Miami Beach is heavy with the smell of chocolate. Look! Chocolate holiday Santas…clasping…butt plugs? Paul McCarthy’s Santa with Butt Plug by…
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One’s first impression of Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone, organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, is that there are too many paintings. The…
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How shocking! I once made a piece of art that was so bad that when it was first exhibited, all the cows mooed, all the children ran wild in the…
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Could an entire generation be psychically altered by media images of violence and war? By computer technology and its virtual capabilities? What about the unsparing assault of advertising? Last Riot…
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Carole Ann Klonarides and Michael Smith have been friends since collaborating on his videotape and installation, It Starts At Home. Klonarides interviewed Mike over barbecue at Meyer’s Elgin Smokehouse while…
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This is getting written a week or so after the event rather than being the sort of on-the-spot reporting it probably should be, but I want to submit some thoughts…
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Devendra Banhart‘s creative aesthetic pervades his entire existence. It blankets every note from his guitar, every warble and billowing vibrato of his voice, every mark of his pen, every inch…
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I recently sat down with Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, to discuss (among other things) Declaring Space, his revelatory exhibition of four artists…