For three artists so deeply tapped into the cultural consciousness to collectively experience an event as monumental as the election of Donald Trump, bonding and the sharing of a common sense of urgency seems inevitable.
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Hector Rodriguez is an elementary school teacher and the creator of the El Peso Hero series of comics, which has recently gained much attention for its Latino superhero who fights…
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Two weeks ago the Dallas Museum of Art hosted a Guinness Record costume contest for the most people dressed like Frida Kahlo. It was a bit controversial, but popular, too. It’s…
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Art is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists is a collection of punchy and pithy quotes by big-name artists. It’s a Phaidon coffee-table book (toilet-reading book?) the…
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Southern Living, the magazine that focuses on Southern cooking, Southern homes, and Southern hospitality, has expanded its definition of Southern life to focus on the upcoming third annual HUE (Houston…
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I wondered if the house was merely unfinished, or if the entire premise had become unresolvable.
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Christina Rees Wins $50,000 Rabkin Prize for Arts Writers
by Glasstireby Glasstire 30 commentsToday, The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation announced that Christina Rees, Glasstire’s Editor-in-Chief, has been awarded the new Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism. For its inaugural year, sixteen arts writers were…
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An Austin funeral home, Distinctive Life, has installed a sculpture of the letters, “L,” “V,” and “E,” leaving room for selfies to finish the word “LIVE.” It has been displayed…
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For all the controversy that comes along with using Toby Kamps as juror, the payoff is huge.
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Curtis may have achieved the impossible, but the project broke him physically, mentally, and romantically.
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Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art recently announced that they are starting a new residency offering emerging artists the opportunity to create a sound-based artwork to be featured in the museum’s January…
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Hobby Lobby Pays $3 Million Fine & Forfeits Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentOn Wednesday of last week, the United States filed a civil complaint against arts and crafts giant Hobby Lobby, claiming that they, via the United Arab Emirates and Israel, had illegally smuggled…
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Ad Reinhardt memorably said “sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.” In the case of the exhibition at The 14th Factory, a pop-up…
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When Houston really begins to believe in its own artists and puts more of its money where its heart is, Gulf Coast art might just light up like flaming oil on the surface of dirty water.
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In Corsicana, Texas (population 24,000), there is an international residency program for artists and writers called 100W. There are fully funded residencies, partially funded residencies, and non-funded residencies. But applications…
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Barney Smith has been working on his cultishly famous Toilet Seat Art Museum in San Antonio’s Alamo Heights for more than half a century. But after a extremely long plumber’s…
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American photographer Kevin Horan has taken what may be the most mysteriously beautiful photographs of pigs and goats we’ve ever seen. In a recent article on The Guardian, he spoke about…
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Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on a show too important to be called a summer show, emerging Latinx artists in Austin, and skewering a sacred cow.
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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Chief Curator Michael Auping Retires
by Glasstireby Glasstire 3 commentsThis morning Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s director Marla Price announced the retirement this summer of Chief Curator Michael Auping. Auping has been with the museum since 1993. Prior to…
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This Saturday, July 15, from noon to 6 p.m. is the 6th installment of Dallas Gallery Day. This year there are 30 galleries participating, including all the usual suspects such…