"What's your favorite French food?" "Fromage enchiladas."
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The city of Sugar Land has been under the magnifying glass for the past few weeks. At the end of May, the city installed a selfie statue in the town’s public…
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Already there is evidence of voters saying: "I didn't realize this would be the outcome; if I could vote again, I'd reverse my vote.”
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We are beginning to slip into the summer doldrums where galleries close for a few months and museums mount their kid-friendly summer shows. Normally around this time programming slows down—but a…
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Maxwell L. Anderson, former Dallas Museum of Art director, who left last fall to take a position as Director of Grant Programs at the New Cities Foundation (NFC), a nonprofit…
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Valderas' signs wield cultural vernacular as armor in an aesthetic skirmish. They’re here to provoke.
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News
Dallas Artist Ted Kincaid Has Founded a New Anti-Hate Project
by Glasstireby Glasstire 1 commentTed Kincaid, a (deservedly) highly regarded artist based in Dallas, and his partner Steve Atkinson and some of their friends have founded I AM DONE, a “project to mobilize like-minded people to…
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Although selfies with artworks have been a thing on social media, the phenomenon hadn’t really hit me till my recent visit to The Broad Museum in Los Angeles. One super-sized…
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Wondering what environmental changes have occurred in modern Texas history? Wonder no more: Texas A&M Press has a new book out from the Texas Landscape Project with hundreds of maps and…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the pros and cons of time-based exhibitions, satire in art from Saudi Arabia, and the sexiness of Formula One racing.
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Americans for the Arts honored 38 outstanding public art projects created in 2015 at its annual convention through the Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review program. The 38 public…
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Last night I put on my brother’s basic Oculus headset and was quite convincingly and disconcertingly surrounded by sharks. Up, down, in every direction they were circling me in the…
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News
Houston Center for Photography Announces New Executive Director
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentThe Houston Center for Photography‘s board announced today that Ashlyn Davis, the organization’s Director of Development since June of 2015, has been hired as its newest Executive Director. Via HCP: “HCP’s Board of Directors…
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Review
Notes on Arthur Peña’s “Endless/Nameless” at the Reading Room, Dallas
by Lee Escobedoby Lee Escobedo 0 commentWhen the characters in Peña's piece speak his words, the room takes on a certain stillness, much like the weight of witnessing someone undress for the first time, or the last.
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Yes, there is an online Cheetos Museum and it is sending out a call for entries. Ten weekly winners will be awarded a $10,000 prize and have their masterpieces immortalized…
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A video review of Jamie Earnest’s show at Cindy Lisica Gallery in Houston, on view June 3rd – July 9th, 2016.
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The Church of the Friendly Ghost will again present its New Media Art & Sound Summit, with its very catchy abbreviation COTFG: NMASS2016, this week at Austin’s Salvage Vanguard Theater…
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As with his other books: funny, pithy, full of entertaining aphorisms. His newest is about what happens to romantic love long after the glowy, early “falling in” part. His protagonist…