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Just a heads up:  this week I may end up skipping a pretty large portion of “happenings” on the show in order to vent a little bit on a different…

    1988 was a rotten time to be a teenager. During the Reagan-Bush era, you had to put in a lot of work to hear something other than Bon…

I had the pleasure to travel to Mozambique this summer to visit some friends, who had recently relocated there. We stayed outside the capital city Maputo in the town of…

David Holzman (L.M. Kit Carson), the protagonist and “filmmaker” of Jim McBride’s David Holzman’s Diary (1967), is nestled in his West 71st Street apartment between movie posters and art reproductions,…

Everyone was wondering how the  Houston Fine Art Fair‘s move to Reliant Center would work out. From what I can tell it was a good idea.  It’s a newer space…

It wasn’t ’til Sunday morning that I got the point of the Marfa Dialogues, an extended look at art, culture and climate change over Labor Day weekend. We were trooping…

For episode 5 of ‘Gallery Girls’, let’s begin by discussing Maggie’s attempt to leave the clutches of Eli Klein.  After taking a quick trip with her boyfriend to visit her…

Martin Parr’s newish book, Up and Down Peachtree, represents the South’s shiny capital with a mix of mean-spiritedness and generosity that recalls Richard Avedon’s long-ago treatment of the American West.…

Chuck Ivy presents his 2012 Glasstire Virtual Residency. I consider myself a research artist, developing rules, frameworks and systems with which I investigate media and culture. Through a balance of…

Director Matthew Akers screened Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012) before a packed house during his Austin stay as a Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund juror. While detailing the internationally…

So episode three of “Gallery Girls” starts off with the girls of Eli Klein Fine Art, which is good for the purposes of this blog because that’s where I have…

The beginning of the second episode of “Gallery Girls” started off with Claudia returning to End of Century after the opening rager, so let’s start this by checking in with…

This is the last of four video profiles Glasstire is hosting featuring the finalists from last year’s Austin Eyes Got It!.  2011 Eyes Got It! winner Hollie Brown’s solo show at grayDUCK…

This is the third of four video profiles Glasstire is hosting featuring the finalists from last year’s Austin Eyes Got It!.  2011 Eyes Got It! winner Hollie Brown’s solo show at grayDUCK…

So the majority of episode one of Bravo’s “Gallery Girls” was big on introducing the girls and low on any actual art.  Or, you know, working.  What is important to…

This is the second of four video profiles Glasstire is hosting featuring the finalists from last year’s Austin Eyes Got It!.  2011 Eyes Got It! winner Hollie Brown’s solo show at grayDUCK…

  Stephen Vitiello is a sound artist who teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has exhibited around the world and collaborated with artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler, Julie…

It’s the All Star break, a time when the very best professional baseball players have to travel for work and the rest get a four-day vacation. It’s also the dead…

Laura Lark launches her new advice column: Laura Lark Loves You… “Good, good for you and a terrific distraction from that suck-ass job.” “Words so wise you’ll think we dug…

  Geoff Hippenstiel is a Houston-based painter whose work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at Devin Borden Gallery, two years after receiving his MFA from the University of…