As reported by Glasstire a couple of weeks ago in “Names Familiar to Texas Will be in 2017 Whitney Biennial,” Occupy Museum’s Debtfair was included in its list because Art…
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The FBI’s Miami field office had a giant commissioned artwork installed inside its big building lobby last year, and the work proceeded to make a lot of employees sick—even sending one…
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'Lawndale Live' is a live show shot weekly this fall in front of a studio audience at Lawndale Art Center, Houston.
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“On December 8, a group of Dallas college students will attempt to destroy the internet… .”
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentToday Glasstire received a mystery email announcing something called Media Burn 2016—presumably named in homage to (though not associated with) Ant Farm’s Media Burn from 1976—which will live stream from Dallas this Thursday.…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: We Can Do It The iconic spread featuring Lynda Benglis from the 1974 issue of Artforum has…
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The Beat artists, in their time, were something the establishment really didn’t know what to do with.
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It was announced a couple weeks ago that the city of Austin is now accepting submissions for its 2017 Faces of Austin film program. The event, which has been running since…
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I just spent the last week in both Los Angeles and New York, and saw a lot of art.
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The work is always about Texas, even when it isn’t.
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The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin has announced a new curatorial position for the museum, underwritten by the The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation.…
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Scott Gilbert’s noir comic series about the alleged theft of a Julian Schnabel painting by the legendary curator Walter Hopps.
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A few weeks ago, the Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books released Donald Judd Writings, the most comprehensive collection of the artist’s writings assembled to date. The publication includes Judd’s…
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Five New Public Art Works For a Richardson Mixed-Use Development
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentCityLine is a big new mixed-use development in Richardson; it’s 186 acres of retail + apartments/condos on a campus at Plano Road and the Bush Turnpike. The developers, KDC, have…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on buying art for Christmas, a look back on the Houston art scene, and a young BFA with a lot of hustle.
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Space is in the air. For those not quite ready to take the Space Poop Challenge (recently posted on Glasstire), the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts is hosting a…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is one of five big American museums to designate undergraduates for the Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program, and the two new fellows for…
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Visual art has long had a presence at Austin’s SXSW festival and now the SX folks are making it official. They announced their first official Art Program, which will showcase…
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Would you like to dive deep into the cesspool of massive corporate corruption for a month, a year, seven years? You can. Through a Rhizome microgrant, artists Sam Lavigne and Tega…
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We don’t value what is good—we value (and are more enthralled by) what seems ‘real.’
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Ariane Roesch interviews artists living and working in Marfa, Texas.