I did feel a pang of longing looking at this show despite the latticed dread it conjured.
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Yesterday, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced the acquisition of Yayoi Kusama’s All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016), one of the artist’s signature Infinity Mirror…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Playing with Light ************* No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else…
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The 21st installment of QFest, Houston’s international city-wide LGBTQ film festival, runs from Thursday July 27 through Monday July 31. Artistic director Kristian Salinas does the programming, and venues include The…
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The show is one of the best testaments I’ve seen to artists’ intellectual curiosity and need to challenge convention, and all the while feeding their own impulse to make beautiful and compelling things.
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Aurora, the Dallas biennial public art event of light, video and sound, has announced its curators and theme for its fifth version. Dooeun Choi, Justine Ludwig, and Nadim Samman will…
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Austin: Between dips at Barton Springs and Deep Eddy in the next week, try to stop downtown to take in Bing Wright’s first show at Lora Reynolds Gallery. The New York-based artist’s…
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Houston’s Project Row Houses (PRH) recently announced the recipients of its 2017 Summer Studios residency. The program, which is structured around a six-week-long residency, brings in college and university students and teaches them…
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This current show in Austin gathers wisps and glimmers of the songster’s fugitive saga and summarizes recent discoveries, and loving gestures of homage.
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“Even if people are not painting something hands-on, they’re at least seeing someone be creative and inspire them,” Corpus Christi spray paint muralist Jeremy Flores told the Caller-Times. “People will…
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The Dallas-based biennial show of art, light, and sound called AURORA will have its fifth installment in 2018, and it has grown so much since its debut in 2010 that the organizers…
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Podcast
Art Dirt 7: McMansion Hell, Dressing Up Like Frida Kahlo, Piss Christ Protest
by Glasstireby Glasstire 4 comments"One of the protest signs said 'When Did Blasphemy Become Art?' and I just had to have a chuckle."
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Since 1935, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has been collecting and displaying works created by artists of our time. Like many museums with wide-reaching collections, however, SFMOMA has its…
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Through these narratives Louden attempts to correct the course of what an artist can be, and how they contribute to society at large.
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The City of Austin Cultural Arts Division has announced an upcoming workshop for artists called GET NOTICED! PR & Marketing for ATX Creatives, which takes place in three parts in three different…
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The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has partnered with West Elm, retailer of casual chic and not-quite-cheap home furnishings, to create a Rauschenberg collection of stuff for your very own home. They…
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The sleepy bayou town of Orange is home to perhaps the best Western Art Museum in the country, and the reason I traveled there with my dad to see its current dazzling show.
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Christina Rees and guest host Hills Snyder are in Lubbock talking about some staple shows of summer, what happens when an artist takes an epic road trip, and the usefulness of intervals.
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In conjunction with the Sawyer Yards Second Saturday open studios, Houston’s Fresh Arts is presenting guided studio tours once a month for the summer. The featured building tour for Saturday,…
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News
Blanton Museum Acquires Vincent Valdez’s Large-Scale ‘The City’ Paintings
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentThis week, the University of Texas’ Blanton Museum of Art told Glasstire that they have acquired Vincent Valdez’s large-scale paintings The City I and The City II. These pieces were introduced to the public…