Like most larger cities, San Antonio is struggling with a gentrification problem. The San Antonio Housing Authority is set to demolish part of the Alazan-Apache Courts, with no assurances of…
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Photographers Mike Schnieder and Bill Daniel unearth and reactivate images from our movie myth machine.
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Big Medium has officially released a list of artists participating in the 2017 East Austin Studio Tour. Now in its 16th installment, EAST is free and open to the public and…
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What is art’s role in rebellion?
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San Antonio is one of the cities that celebrate World Art Drop Day, organized through the Southwest School of Art. Now in its fourth year, Art Drop Day takes place…
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Thanks to the BBC, which produced this video of Houston’s poet laureate, Deborah “DEEP” Mouton, reading a poem for the city. “We haven’t lost everything, we just have it all to…
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This coming week, the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum will open an exhibition featuring works by 2017 UMLAUF Prize winner and 2017 UT MFA graduate Bucky Miller. Founded in 2005, the prize…
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I felt incredibly gratified to see Harryhausen’s kraken and Medusa and Pegusus in person, and, as nostalgia’s double edge is prone to deliver, a little shaken.
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Houston ISD has announced that they are postponing their opening day for another week, back to September 11th. This means that thousands of Houston parents who were planning to go…
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National Endowment for the Humanities Commits $1 Million to Harvey Relief
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentIn the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced that it will award up to $1 million in emergency grants “to preserve humanities collections…
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CERF+ Offers Safety Information and Recovery Resources for Artists, Including Funds
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentSome of the storm-hit region’s arts leaders have shared this information today about CERF+, which is “part of a national emergency and disaster network of arts responders, which is gathering…
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Houston organization Fresh Arts has launched the Disaster Relief Fund for Texas Artists, with 100% of the proceeds going directly to help artists affected by Hurricane Harvey. They are…
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It is interesting when artists find some thread in a work of pop culture and yank it out and sew it into the center point of their own mandelas
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Linda Cathcart, executive director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) from 1979 to 1987, died recently in Santa Barbara, California. While at the CAMH, Cathcart established the Perspectives series…
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Daniel Elliott, the manager of Jerry’s Artarama of Houston, is working with Jerry’s and other art supply companies to offer relief to artists directly affected by the storm. Here’s Elliot’s…
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As he moved into Louisiana, Tropical Storm Harvey left his mess behind in East Texas. The City of Beaumont lost its water supply causing Lamar University, which includes the Dishman…
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Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on Hurricane Harvey and the coast, and some shows to catch across other parts of Texas.
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Artpace Extends Texas Open Call Deadline Due to Hurricane Harvey
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentArtpace in San Antonio has extended the deadline for its Texas Open Call due to so many artists directly affected by Hurricane Harvey. It was August 31, and now it’s…
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Some Good News: Smithsonian Magazine Gives Props to GAC for Dealing with Harvey
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentAcross South and Southeast Texas, some museums put out the sandbags and moved art to higher ground, but the extremely unpredictable Hurricane Harvey caught others totally off guard. The Galveston…
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If you are wanting to volunteer or drop off supplies at a shelter and you can’t make it to the George R. Brown downtown, there are many other places you…