"If you are dumb and without talent going in you'll still be that way coming out. "
"donald trump"
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Review
Why this Year’s Galveston Artist Residency Exhibition is Different
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechFor 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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Review
Andres Serrano at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechWhile Serrano’s photos didn’t have the impact I expected, in the end, they forced me to rethink torture overall—by looking at the fake, I had to confront the real.
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An exhibition in which artists respond to Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office. Featuring works by: Josh Alan, Agnes Bourley, Daniel Brents, Martha Carson, John Clements, Felipe Contreras, Marti Corn,…
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President Donald Trump released a $1.1 trillion budget outline today, which includes eliminating four independent cultural agencies — the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the…
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Review
‘Friendly Fire’ at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteEven though this show opened three days before the election, it’s as if it anticipated the outcome—and it quietly poses questions about how to exist in this new dystopian paradigm.
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News
Dallas ISD Art Teacher Suspended After Squirt Gun Assassination
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonA Dallas ISD teacher has been placed on administrative leave for posting a video on social media that shows her shooting a water gun at an image of President Donald…
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Shia LaBeouf, the actor who stubbornly wants to be known as a performance artist, has been invited to participate in Houston’s Experimental Action, a three-day international performance art festival, via…
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Back in 2015, in an ongoing attempt to normalize relations between the US and Cuba, the Obama administration allowed airlines to restore commercial flights between the two countries. Although traveling…
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Some Inauguration Day Wisdom from Pussy Riot, from their recent Texas Visit
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech"If Trump will be the next president of the United States, which I hope will not happen, the situation in your country will be pretty much close to ours, I think."
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This is a fight for everything that makes life worth living.
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Merriam-Webster, everyone’s go-to for dictionaries, thesauri, and all things reference-related, has recently announced that “surreal” is the 2016 Word of the Year. The company tracks how often online users look up…
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Glasstire staff and contributors share which Texas-based art made their personal best lists for 2016.
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The Daily Mail reported on Thursday that “sources” had told them that President-elect Donald Trump had approached Stallone about a top arts-related position in his administration, perhaps as chairman of…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on why you don’t even need to leave your house to see some art across the state.
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“On December 8, a group of Dallas college students will attempt to destroy the internet. Media Burn will be live streamed at www.mediaburn2016.com. The event will run from 4 p.m.…
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News
“On December 8, a group of Dallas college students will attempt to destroy the internet… .”
by Glasstireby GlasstireToday 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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We don’t value what is good—we value (and are more enthralled by) what seems ‘real.’
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For those who managed to avoid discussing politics at yesterday’s family gatherings, Houston artist Brian Piana has a new web project for you and your folks: Why I Supported. Known…
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This week there was an unfortunate post on the Glasstire Instagram account. An image meant to ridicule Donald Trump’s rhetoric of “bad hombres” and building a wall along the border…