Houston artist Tony Day believes in freedom. Not bald-eagle-laser-etched-on-your-Ford-truck-‘Murica freedom, but freedom of expression. Day is a Yosemite Sam for the creative process.
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Glass Satire’s newest installment explores the incompatibility of contemporary floor-based sculpture with very important people who don’t ever look down. (It also explains why the Félix González-Torres sculpture in 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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If Omaha tried to friend me on Facebook, I’d probably say yes. I’m not sure I’d let it see all of my info or share my photos with it, but…
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What with the piles of shoddy painting clogging many art venues these days, it is a relief to see Darren Waterston’s current exhibit at Inman Gallery. It’s one of those rare…
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Dallas artist Marjorie Schwarz once volunteered at the Dallas Zoo and used the birds as inspiration. She painted them to help her remember their names but it also became a…
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I went to see Samual Beckett’s ‘Endgame’ at the Undermain Theatre the other night. It’s directed by Stan Wojewodski Jr. and is at once hilarious and incredibly bleak. Set…
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These snapshots are from Andrea Dezsö’s show “Sometimes in My Dreams I Fly” at Rice University Art Gallery. The photos don’t do the show justice: each window at the gallery…
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Margaret Meehan and Noah Simblist are possibly the two most compassionate people I have ever met. The married couple are both artists and recently moved from Dallas to Fort Worth…
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“Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance” at the Menil Collection is a show you won’t see anywhere else in Texas, or most of the U.S. for that…
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Here’s a taste of the opening weekend of Fotofest: My favorite show was easily RE: groups – American Photographs Before 1950 from W.M. Hunt´s Collection Blind Pirate at Houston Center…
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This Saturday, March 13th, is the last day for the University of Houston student show at the Blaffer Gallery. It’s worth running by to see what the youth are up…
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I just returned from attending Modern Ruin, a great experiment organized by Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer. The two-day exhibition takes advantage of the never-used 1 million dollar WaMu…
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Dallas’s Shamrock Hotel was built in 1915 and was used as a furniture factory and showroom in the 30s and 40s. According to artist and manager Peter Ligon, the building…
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