I’m headed to New York next week for a brief visit wrapped around a wedding. On the top of the list is Yayoi Kusama’s retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A review of the exhibition by Holland Cotter and slide show can be found in the New York Times. You can also find [...]
This past Saturday independent curator Cynthia Mulcahy and artist Robert Hamilton had a public picnic and reception to celebrate the planting and subsequent bloom of seventeen hundred Aztec Gold sunflower seeds in a vacant, 1.6 acre lot in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. Since last March Mulcahy, Hamilton, a hardworking crew of 8, [...]
Well my issue of The New Yorker Magazine came today and on the cover was my inspiration for Similar but Different #29: The Rainbow Connection. Newsweek went so far as to say Obama is “The First Gay President”. In 2011 same-sex marriage became legal in New York and they lit up Niagara Falls to celebrate [...]
So I’m bringing back my series Mirror Mirror to Glasstire which was named in honor of its first posting and dedicated to all the multitasking, multi-talented, and multimedia artists who deserve a little shout out for their various incarnations. Mirror Mirror #7 presents HOMECOMING!, an experimental art collective based in Fort Worth, Texas that is [...]
There is so much going on with the Fusebox festival here in Austin. Glasstire contributor Katie Geha did a great interview with founder Ron Berry that you can read here and you can check the schedule of events out for yourself here. In addition I’d like to give a plug to a few things that [...]
A crazy whirlwind of art and reunions in Dallas this past weekend. It was really hopping and I am exhausted. I’ll be moving back this Fall and I have to admit the past 3 days gave me hope and got me excited about rejoining the DFW art community. I drove up to participate in the [...]
This Thursday April 12th will be the last of 2012′s Viewpoints lecture series at the University of Texas here in Austin. Invitees Sina Najafi and Jeffrey Kastner will give their final lecture in room 1.102 in the art building from 4-6pm. Sina Najafi is editor-in-chief of Cabinet magazine and the editorial director of Cabinet Books [...]
Art on the Green is an outdoor art installation brought to life by curator Andrea Mellard at AMOA-Arthouse’s Laguna Gloria. Austin artists, architects, and landscape architects were invited to design and create the nine miniature golf holes that can be found all over the Laguna Gloria grounds, the tenth by artist Brad Tucker is mysteriously [...]
“In a world where proving yourself is everything”… I present Similar but Different #27: Glitter! Mariah Carey Oliver Herring “After its scheduled run, Meulensteen (formerly Max Protetch) took down their Oliver Herring show last week to the delight of neighboring gallerists. Many were complaining that Herring’s bags of glitter were the cause of stray glitter [...]
Existing somewhere between visual poetry, scientific investigation and environmental loss is the work of Katie Paterson. It is quiet and blue (sometimes in color and sometimes in emotion) and seems to reflect the pace of a glacier but much like glacial ice it contains many layers of complex issues within its minimal form. Stratums that [...]
One of the best things I saw while in Los Angeles was Ming Wong’s Making Chinatown at REDCAT. The Singapore-born, Berlin-based artist turned the gallery space into a fake studio back lot and projected pivotal scenes which he’d re-shot from Roman Polanski’s 1974 film Chinatown. Multiple videos play on large-format print stills that have been [...]
I flew down to LA last week in honor of CAA, The College Art Association. While the majority of my peers went to panels, school reunions, and were either interviewers or interviewees at the conference; I spent my time being driven, palling around with friends, eating way too much: And seeing some great art. Here [...]
A few months back while at Artpace I saw the work of Scottish artist Graham Fagen and connected with his installation. Teeth have been a constant in my own work and seem to always upset, surprise and confuse viewers. They are loaded with emotion and power whether it be visual or in written phrases such [...]
Like many artists, I make the majority of my living teaching art. But not, mind you, in some fancy full time tenured sort of way. That, dear reader, is another post entirely. This semester I decided to shake up my Intermediate and Advanced Ceramic Sculpture class beyond teaching them skills, and there is a lot [...]
This past Saturday was a good day. A lovely day to be exact… In the spirit of John Cage I took a chance and went to the Blanton to honor the man whose 100th birthday is being celebrated this year. Steve Parker, the Blanton Museum’s artist in residence and current graduate student in performance art [...]
How I wish I could be in 2 places at once this weekend- DFW and Austin/San Antonio. My apologies to the rest of Texas but these two locations are where I live these days and they alone are hard enough to wrangle. I guess until I read the book above I’ll just do my best [...]
Finding this image: Made me think of this: Which reminded me of another book cover: Which made me think of Austin’s own: A family needs a home: and even better this: With less candles and more karma: Without pants and one less shoe: And one less leg: McCarthy’s sculpture reminded me of Alverson’s amazing painting: [...]
Eva Zeisel was a ceramic artist and designer who revolutionized tableware. She died yesterday at 105 after an amazing life that included being falsely accused and imprisoned for 16 months for conspiring to assassinate Stalin. In 1937 she traveled to Vienna, leaving in 1938 when the Nazis entered Austria, forcing her to emigrate to the [...]
Needless to say I was super excited when I heard there was a new Muppet movie coming out and what does it mean that I started crying the first time I watched the trailer? It means it touched a nerve and gave me hope. I know, some pretty strong emotions derived from a bunch of [...]
Visual AIDS began Day With(out) Art on December 1st, 1989 as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. It was meant to inspire positive action and make the public aware that AIDS can affect everyone. That first year some 800 U.S. art and AIDS groups participated by shutting down [...]
