This week: a co-curated retrospective of a major Texas artist in Arlington, an artist's first solo museum exhibition in Houston, an international artist revisits a past residency in San Antonio, and more.
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Luis Jiménez’s Man on Fire: From the Olmec Were-Jaguar and the Vietnam War to Spiritual Self-Portrait
Ruben Cordova on artist Luis Jiménez's iconic sculpture, "Man on Fire."
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The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth has announced their 2022-23 exhibition calendar, including two exhibitions currently on view that pair historical and contemporary works.
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Brandon Zech and Christina Rees discuss conservation nightmares, the Dust Bowl, and how well-versed Texas artists are on this subject.
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Editor’s note: This article was published in English on Glasstire on July 3. Find that here. Traducción del inglés de Yolanda Fauvet. Un caballo azul gigante de mirada abrasadora…
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As an Independence Day special, we bring you a profile of one of the true greats.
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Brandon Zech and Christina Rees on a gorgeous spring show in the Rio Grande Valley, a family of evolving artists, and an intimate show of Luis Jiménez’s work that feels just right, right now.
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Staggering out of the museum, I thought of how Hunter S. Thompson, who famously lived in Colorado, wrote that we are entering into an insane fascist forever war, and then shortly after shot himself.
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Brandon Zech shares some thoughts on the work he saw on his most recent trip.
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Since the early 1980s, the San Antonio native has made highly eccentric painted reliefs, sculptures, and installations featuring loony, childlike imagery that’s often cleverly encoded with biting social commentary.
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Houston’s Moody Gallery is opening an exhibition today in celebration of its 40th year in business. Betty Moody first opened the gallery in 1975 in the River Oaks shopping center…
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This week we got hard-hitting Latinos, clever women and a late-blooming name changer.
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El Paso filmmaker César Alejandro has announced that he will be producing a documentary about the career and legacy of sculptor Luis Jiménez. The El Paso Times reports that it…
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Mustang, Luis Jiménez’s last work, aka the Big Blue Horse at the Denver Airport was reconsidered on Monday. Maybe it’s the glowing red eyes, or the prominent penis, but some…
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Perhaps Luis Jimenez’s most famous work, Vaquero, is riding into the sunset. On loan from collector and fiberglass fabricator Frank Ribelin, the monumental fiberglass statue of a pistol-packing cowboy has…
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In the slack summer news season, sometimes nothing’s more exciting than moving a big, weird object from one place to another. Local news outlets report the airlift of Buck Winn’s…