Daryl Morey is the highly respected general manager of the Houston Rockets, and now he’s also a producer of a musical bound for the Houston stage, at the Catastrophic Theater,…
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Gizmodo published an entertaining and thought-provoking interview today with two contributors to the new book Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence published by California Polytechnic State University. The whole book tackles…
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Review
Annabeth Rosen at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy Huete 1 commentThe rich and cumulative layers of ceramics abundant in this show read like turbulent bodies packaged and disseminated.
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Yesterday, the Art Center of Waco was shut down by engineers due to structural damage, reports the Waco Tribune-Herald. A beam between the basement and the first floor had dropped…
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We’re sure the nation’s current administration would be thrilled to look out their office windows onto the National Mall and see a 45-foot tall, glowing, yoga-posed statue of a naked…
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The Weird Homes Art Tour was founded in Austin in 2014 and expanded to Houston last year. The 2nd Annual Weird Homes Tour Houston takes place this Saturday, October 7,…
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Podcast
Art Dirt 10: The Texas Biennial, Guggenheim Self-Censoring, Hugh Hefner
by Rainey Knudson Christina Rees 1 comment"I think it's hypocritical to some degree for feminists to say to men that they shouldn't be allowed to fantasize about a 22-year-old girl with great proportions and a great face."
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This coming weekend, October 6-8, hundreds of patrons, collectors, artists, and art lovers will descend on the small West Texas town of Marfa for the Chinati Foundation’s annual open house…
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'Fair Park Lagoon' by Patricia Johanson is one of the most important artworks in Dallas. Its fate is tied to the fate of the Park.
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Apparently, the city of Grand Prairie (in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, population 175,396 according to the 2010 census) does not read Glasstire. At least they didn’t read or disagreed with…
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If you’re in San Antonio and you’ve been looking for a reason to read books related to art, today is your lucky day — Clamp Light, the artist-run studio and…
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"If you are dumb and without talent going in you'll still be that way coming out. "
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Uncommon Objects, Austin’s go-to shop for funky antiques and other finds, has announced that it will be relocating due to the ever-rising rents on the South Congress strip. The shop,…
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Pete Gershon, the Houston-based author and historian, will be giving a talk tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. at Deborah Colton Gallery in conjunction with Colton’s current show as well…
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It’s easy to overlook people being killed in state-sanctioned executions when they are just numbers on a page. It’s much harder to ignore the system when you humanize an inmate and grasp him or her as an individual.
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Glasstire is so excited by the resuscitation of Big Medium’s Texas Biennial after four years that there are a number of articles (do a search at glasstire.com) on its each…
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Last October, Tom Hanks hosted Saturday Night Live’s Halloween show and debuted a character that took the world by storm. Flanked by two dancing skeletons, David S. Pumpkins (the “S”…
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For five years Dallas has been hearing about the development of an ambitious project called the Museum of Street Culture, and this coming Sunday, October 1, it will open its…
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Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on artists bringing their A-game, the pleasures of the flesh, and the tale behind Trenton Doyle Hancock's retrospective in Houston.
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The City of San Antonio has announced its honorees for the third annual Distinction in the Arts awards, reports MySA.com. They are saxophonist Spot Barnett; visual artist César Martínez; Belinda…