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"My work speaks of the uncomfortable. It makes viewers uncomfortable because uncomfortable is the air I breathe." 

"He and the de Menils did some big-idea thinking, and committed themselves to getting it done in Houston."

"Because my work does not maybe look like the pervasive agendas doesn't mean I'm not influenced or in dialogue with it."

“It’s harder to get people out during the holiday season for truly transgressive work,” she tells me. “Wait 'til the new year.” 

  Editor’s note: This article was published in English on Glasstire on July 3. Find that here.  Traducción del inglés de Yolanda Fauvet. Un caballo azul gigante de mirada abrasadora…

Here we sample three meaty courses of cannibalism as satire, and I think they are all delicious.

Chagoya is “the artist who has most effectively demonstrated the uncanny relevance of Goya’s political satire to our own times.”

Here, Thornton answers ten questions (inspired by the Proust Questionnaire and slightly tweaked by Glasstire).

Photographer Sarah Wilson artfully frames grandfather’s paleontological finds in a growing body of work.

Chagoya is a highly promiscuous mixer of cultures, an up-ender of artistic hierarchies, and a brilliant and caustic political satirist.

As an Independence Day special, we bring you a profile of one of the true greats.

Thomas shows you something that, if it touches your own experience, grabs you so tightly that your memories come tumbling out.

It is hard to think of an artist more emblematic of San Antonio's contemporary art output than Ken Little. 

"I have come to realize that my ideas are lodged in my body and the more I move the more my ideas present themselves to me."

Jesse Treviño, el artista de mayor fama en San Antonio, sin duda tiene la biografía más dramática de la ciudad.

"If people can have meaningful discussions with others, rather than drawing lines and fighting, then I am glad that the work can be a catalyst."

"My art bridges contemporary art practices with traditional craft processes, allowing participating communities to reclaim, preserve, and innovate their traditions."

"One can fit a tremendous amount of emotional content in a screenplay just by typing: 'Enter Ghost.'" 

Simpson's work combines the keen eye of a naturalist, the sharp mind of a researcher, the activist impulse of social practice, and the immersive monumentality of installation art.

Treviño’s determination to become a Chicano artist was born in Vietnam. 'Mi Vida' is a phantasmatic painting, haunted by memories and premonitions of injury and death, of battles lost and battles won, both past and future.