William Sarradet and Brandon Zech discuss the rise of NFTs as online avatars, digital projects by Tom Sachs and Damien Hirst, and advertising's infiltration into the metaverse.
Tom Sachs
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In this holiday edition of Glasstire’s Top Five, Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson share tips on the best shows to take your various friends and family members to over the Christmas break.
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'Tea Ceremony' is a natural evolution of Sachs’ sensibility. He’s demanding that both he and his audience slow down.
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Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on a San Antonio super-connector, artists who pass as lobbyists, and Tom Sachs' return to Texas.
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Visual art has long had a presence at Austin’s SXSW festival and now the SX folks are making it official. They announced their first official Art Program, which will showcase…
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth recently announced the speakers for this fall’s Tuesday Evenings at the Modern lecture series. The program kicks off this coming Tuesday, September 13, with…
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A deep interest in aliens is so much a part of our culture that we have movie after movie (not to mention television, novels, comic books…) enthralling us with stories of other worlds and extraterrestrial life.
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Everyone in the art world complains about the art world all the time: "We all hate the art world and we’re not part of the art world!"
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The art apocalypse continues apace. The Contemporary Austin has commissioned six well-known artists to create bespoke…ahem… paddleboards to be auctioned off at the non-profit’s fundraising art dinner on May 9.…
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As we are all well aware, Tom Sachs– the New York-based MacGyver/MacGruber of the art world– has essentially taken over Austin for a spate, but on March 17, he comes…
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The Contemporary in Austin–all three of its locations–will play host to the first-ever institutional show of Tom Sachs works in Texas. Beginning in January, Boombox Retrospective 1999-2015 will spread out…
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Barbie Identity Crisis Reaches All Time High: from Artist Videos to Occupy Protest
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThose who have been following the work of Texas-based artist Lauren Kelley know that she sometimes uses Barbie dolls in her still photography, video works, and collages as a means…