Artists throughout Latin America engaged in revolutionary DIY art as their own particular expressions of the conceptual art-think that zoomed around the continents in the 1960s.
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Essay
At the Mouth of the West: A Recent Trip Through Midland-Odessa
by Neil Fauersoby Neil Fauerso 7 commentsI had never visited the Midland-Odessa part of Texas until a week ago, but that region looms large in the iconography of Texas.
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On Thursday, August 16, a new mural in Houston will be unveiled in the Westchase District: It’s titled Harvey Heroes, and it’s by Houston-based artist Larry Crawford. Harvey Heroes is a 100-foot…
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News
Artists and Writers: Open Call for Rhizome’s Annual Microgrants
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentRhizome, the international non-profit “that supports and provides a platform for new media art,” has opened its annual call for its microgrants, a program it kicked off in 2014. Grants…
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Drive By
“Have you found your place in the world?” An Interview with Pierre Krause On Sloganeering
by William Sarradet 0 comment"I don't even really think that mainstream advertising is trying to sell anything to a person like me."
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The Art Center of Waco (ACW) has announced that former Program Director Claire Sexton is the new director of the museum. Outgoing Director Meg Gilbert will continue to have a…
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News
Satellite Art Show Will Come to Austin During SXSW 2019
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech 2 commentsThe Satellite Art Show, an art fair aimed at fostering the careers of young dealers, artists, non-profits and artist-run spaces, has told Glasstire that it will make its Texas debut in Austin…
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Early this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art changed its admission fees to a complicated mess, but mainly it started a mandatory fee for non-New Yorkers, instead of its longtime…
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Top Five
Top Five: Aug. 9, 2018. The Most Twisted Artists in Texas
by Glasstireby Glasstire 8 commentsChristina Rees and guest editor Neil Fauerso run down the most twisted artists in Texas, according to criteria set forth by Fauerso in his Glasstire essay "The Twisted Manifesto."
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Profile
“Chris Cascio Sells Prints, T-Shirts and Zines While Playing Tetris”: An Interview
by Paul Middendorf 0 comment"Everything I was doing in the mid '90s as a teenager has become a big business and side hustle for many artists."
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News
SMU Releases “Arts Vibrancy Index” and Texas Doesn’t Fare as Well as it Thought it Would
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsThe National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) at Dallas’ Southern Methodist University (SMU) released its fourth annual Arts Vibrancy Index, which ranks more than 900 communities across the country, examining…
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News
Two-day Public Gathering in El Paso and Cd. Juárez Will Explore Art Along the Border
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentThe El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) has announced its upcoming two-day gathering, titled La Frontera: Art + People + Place, that invites the public to El Paso (and Juárez,…
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News
What Happened to All Those Old Artist Spaces? A Call for Texas Artists to Remember
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentArt F City has published a zine which charts the history of artist run spaces in Washington DC from the 1970s through to the present, from garage galleries to traditional…
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The show: Chaos!!!!!!
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Toby Kamps, director and chief curator of University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum, is heading to London to take the job of director of external projects at the commercial gallery White…
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Profile
“I’m a Storyteller at Heart”: Gabe Langholtz’s Dark Underbelly
by Joseph R. Wolin 5 commentsYou can be forgiven for not knowing his name, even if you live in the Austin area. "It makes perfect sense, me being a narrative painter. It’s clearly an extension of my songwriter-self.”
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Don’t know Dallas’ Bath House Cultural Center? Here’s a description from Wikipedia: “The Bath House (one of the first Art Deco buildings in the southwest) is a Dallas landmark and…
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Imagine if the MFAH had lived up to the bootstrapping spirit of this crazy swamp and done something really radical.
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One of the under-appreciated highlights of many Texas institutions and non-profits is their ongoing education programming. From free events open to the community to art schools and classes, our state…
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News
Nicole Eisenman Receives $200K Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe inaugural Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize was announced in 2016, naming the recipient as Rodney McMillian, who received a cash prize of $100,000, an exhibition at the Contemporary Austin,…