Claudia Schmuckli, the Director and Chief Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston is leaving to take on the role of Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of…
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My problem here is not that the work is light and playful; it is that Ronay so casually references such immensely fraught symbolism in the name of play.
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Laura Somers, an LA-based independent filmmaker best known for Love 10 to 1 (2009), is returning to Pasadena, Texas to cast and shoot a feature-length movie called Rich Kids. It’s an…
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There is so much distance between the objects and their referents. Zefeldt paints that distance into punchlines.
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ArtSkool is a project of John Logan, Abby Bagby, and Rachael Anderson designed to “enlighten and excite those with limited-to-no exposure to visual culture about art through discussions about theory…
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The world famous satirical art duo The Yes Men have a new project that “launches” today, the 4th of July. Comprised of a press release video, a promotional video, and a website selling…
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This may be the most absurd Fourth of July article we’ve seen as of yet. Some highlights: Jason Galvin used a .22-caliber rifle to fire 150 shots at the rope and…
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If you need a history refresher on American independence, catch Christina Rees’ throwback find of Schoolhouse Rocks.
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This is how I learned this story, on Saturday mornings in the ’70s. Certainly one of the catchier Schoolhouse Rock tunes. (“That’s called taxation without representation, and it’s not fair.”) Happy…
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There’s no one story of any empire and there’s no one story of America. I’ve been telling my family’s story in my work for nearly 20 years now. I’ve only recently been thinking about what my identity as an American artist is.
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Last Friday, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston kicked off a twelve-film program celebrating the 100th birthday of actress Olivia de Havilland, who is the last surviving cast member of the 1939…
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Glasstire correspondents Brandon Zech and Ariane Roesch checked in with summer visitors of Yayoi Kusama's signature installation at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Reactions were varied.
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Samandari's goal is to locate a sort of collective soul.
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The Dallas Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have jointly acquired Walter De Maria’s sculpture Large Rod Series: Circle/Rectangle, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 (1986). Additionally, the…
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Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Austin Does Houston at the Menil Bookstore Next Week
by Glasstireby Glasstire 1 commentOn July 8th from 6-9 p.m., the Menil’s bookstore in Houston is hosting an exhibition of artist books by Austin favorite Kevin McNamee-Tweed. (The bookstore, in a bungalow across the…
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An Interview with Alyson Shotz on Her New Work in San Antonio
by Chad Dawkinsby Chad Dawkins 0 commentChad Dawkins asks the Brooklyn-based artist about what went into this site-specific sculpture commissioned by Blue Star Contemporary and the San Antonio Botanical Garden
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Rick Lowe, founding director of Project Row Houses, is joining the faculty of the University of Houston’s College of the Arts as a clinical associate professor of art, reports the…
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The show: WIM: Volume Two: A Polaroid Show The venue: Tomo Mags The city: Houston The date: June 25, 2016 Photographs by Sidney Mori …
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Via Bowerbird: Last December, the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock (Lubbock’s hub for visual art) received a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, and “it has…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on the abundance of summer group shows, a roving art space as a "curatorial idea," and how to win art on Ebay.