Today, Sunday June 12, from 3-5pm, Artpace resident Andy Coolquitt will host Shadowy & Still, a site-specific installation by Sterling Allen. Allen’s show had been on view for only a day at Sala Diaz when…
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Allen creates material boundaries within which his imagination flourishes. He hasn’t completely abandoned his tongue-in-cheek approach—the tendency is there—but it’s diffuse and delayed.
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Casa Chuck, the invitational art residency arm of San Antonio’s Sala Diaz, experienced an electrical fire Monday morning, which included some water damage. The full extent of repairs that will…
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Looks can be deceiving in the flashy and blissful facades of O'Connor's art.
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on Houston's favorite son, the absurdist power of Wegman, and where all the cool people will be this Saturday.
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As a conceptual artist and practicing DJ, Boyd approaches each project much like a recording artist developing a concept album.
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"Do you feel like you're seeing a lot of dry, conceptual work right now?" "Yes, I feel very oppressed by that."
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Sala Diaz has announced that Claudia Arozqueta, a New Zealand-based curator, researcher, and writer will be their 2015 Casa Chuck resident. Arozqueta has organized a number of exhibitions and is a contributor to Artforum.com…
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Setting up shop as the nefarious capitalist beast you seek to indemnify doesn’t so much reveal the troubling apparatus as it does prove your involvement in it.
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"Here's the deal: I'm hopeful that this will be awesome, but it could very well be a couple of people showing up in suits and doing a half-baked performance that's a social critique that doesn't really work.... Yes?"
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BlogGlasstireProfileReview
No Walls: the Expanded Curatorial Practice of Michele Monseau
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischThe rejiggering at Blue Star has transferred Monseau's energy to an expanded and exciting pop-up curatorial practice.
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The Linda Pace Foundation's new executive director talks to Glasstire about LPF's exhibition program, their collections, and their building plans.
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"I feel that I am putting myself on the continuum between the microscopic and the universal, and finding that place where I fit into all of that."
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News
San Antonio Art Spaces Diffuse: Blue Star Complex Loses Two More Galleries
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhen the San Antonio Express-News reported on the transitions and renovations at the Blue Star Arts Complex in late April, they wrote that “there is a perception by many that…
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I was falling asleep slowly around 1:30 am when I heard the chime of a Facebook chat message. I debated about just ignoring it, but my Facebook obsession kicked…
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This September Sala Diaz will be hosting Barbara Perea, an accomplished Mexico City-based curator, critic and lecturer with a concentration in emerging media, sound and video art as the first…
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Last week I wrote about Houston’s dueling art fairs coming up this fall. Scheduled one month apart, each has a New York area organizer. It got me thinking about Dallas’s…
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Blog
“You’re never gonna make it flat, anyway:” Jung Mun and the Sala Diaz effect
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischSan Antonio artist Jung Hee Mun reaches new heights of technique and conceptual audacity with her Sala Diaz show.
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One of England’s best avant-garde filmmakers, John Smith isn’t adverse to narrative or humor. But his work is often anti-illusionist and tends to make viewers conscious of the artifice…