By Peter Lucas on October 7, 2012
Celebrating the legendary de Menil years of the Rice Museum and Rice Media Center. The Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this year has had me thinking a lot about its importance in my life and in the cultural landscape of this city. It has also made me think about the much-longer-than-25-years history of John and Dominique [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged andy warhol, art, film, menil, rice media center, rice university |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2012
Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super smart curator and art historian Andy Campbell invited New York- and Stockholm-based artist Emily Roysdon to take over the VAC’s Vaulted Gallery for the fall semester. I first heard of Roysdon in [...]
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By Peter Lucas on August 11, 2012
Experimental Eye and The Sounds of Silence. The next 6 weeks bring Houstonians rare opportunities to see some of the most dynamic experimental films in history- many shown on delicious 16mm film! Four upcoming film screenings–one presented by the Aurora Picture Show, and three co-presented by the Menil Collection and Rice Media Center–showcase a diversity [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged animation, art, aurora picture show, experimental eye, film, menil collection, rice media center, sounds of silence, video |
By Rachel Hooper on July 6, 2012
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to assist with the jurying of Lawndale Art Center’s annual Big Show. I have volunteered for this event for the last three years, and it has become a cherished annual ritual for me. When I arrived on Saturday, the galleries were filled with nearly a thousand artworks submitted [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, contemporary art, Houston, Lawndale Art Center, lawndale big show, marco antonini, NURTUREart, Texas, Walter Hopps |
By Rachel Hooper on February 24, 2012
In many ways, Nancy Zastudil was the inspiration for this series of interviews about sustainable practices. We worked together at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston, which organized a symposium called Systems of Sustainability. In the course of planning for the event, we talked about ways that the [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged A+C Houston, andrea polli, Ariane Roesch, art, blaffer art museum, contemporary art, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, ISEA2012, nancy zastudil, pland, residency, sustainability, the lightning field |
By Rachel Hooper on February 19, 2012
There is a proliferation of exhibitions featuring abstract painting in Houston right now. Gallery Sonja Roesch, Sicardi Gallery, and Hiram Butler Gallery have group exhibitions featuring abstract painters, and there are several galleries featuring solo exhibitions by painters– Zachariah Rieke at Wade Wilson Art, Michael Kennaugh at Moody Gallery, Geoff Hippenstiel at Devin Borden Gallery, [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, camh, contemporary art, devin borden gallery, G gallery, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, mfah, Moody Gallery, Sicardi Gallery, Wade Wilson Art |
By Rachel Hooper on February 11, 2012
It takes a lot of creativity to make a new idea happen and quite a bit of sacrifice to keep it going. Inspired by Glasstire’s remarkable eleven years on the scene, this series of interviews on sustainable practices will profile artists, writers, and curators who broke out of the box, started an original project, and [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, art criticism, contemporary art, robert boyd |
By Rachel Hooper on February 9, 2012
Josh Bernstein‘s exhibition “Man Corn” is the third exhibition in Rice University’s newest art venue– EMERGEncy Room. Located on the second floor of Sewall Hall, where Rice Gallery is also housed, the project space is dedicated to showing emerging artists in a small room with a front, glass wall through which one can see the [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, Cabeza de Vaca, contemporary art, EMERGEncy room, galveston, Houston, josh bernstein, karankawa, man corn, rice university, rice university art, sculpture, woodcut |
By Robert Boyd on February 5, 2012
W.E.B. Du Bois created the term “double consciousness” in 1897 to describe the way African Americans split themselves into two personas, one for each side of the color line. The persona that existed in the white world was subservient and informed by the images and stereotypes of racism. Du Bois saw this doubling as a [...]
Posted in Article, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, barkley hendricks, fanboy, geek culture, mundanes, nerd culture, oba, robert boyd, robert pruitt, star trek, w.e.b. du bois |
By Rachel Hooper on February 4, 2012
Four years ago, Sasha Dela and Ariane Roesch opened a studio on an upper floor of an outdated and slightly ominous looking office building across from Montrose Krogers and the Chinese Consulate after the artists were both in the 2008 Houston Area Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum. They decided to curate small exhibitions in [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged adela andea, Ariane Roesch, art, Brian Piana, carl sudath, chin xaou ti won, chris akin, contemporary art, contemporary art houston, emily sloan, haden garrett, jim nolan, mary magsamen, nancy douthey, rachel hecker, sasha dela, Skydive, stephan hillerbrand, Terrell James |
By Rachel Hooper on February 3, 2012
My blog, Wax by the Fire, is sort of a love letter to Houston and the intelligent, diverse, and friendly community of creative people who live here. Now that the blog is part of Glasstire, I would like to continue what I have been doing on my own site for the past four years, namely [...]
Posted in Wax by the Fire | Tagged art, art criticism, box 13, Houston art, Jonathan Leach, rice university art history, rirkrit tiravanija, Walter Benjamin |
By Claire Ruud on January 23, 2012
Long gone are the days when a CEO could simply cut a company check to his favorite charity. Now that it has become clear that companies can get the social kudos they used to get from philanthropy through initiatives that are also “good business,” managers have difficulty justifying any Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives that [...]
Posted in Blog, Claire Ruud | Tagged art, arts organizations, contemporary art, corporate philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Strategic CSR |
By Sarah Fisch on December 27, 2011
Justin Boyd’s Window Works installation at Artpace is called “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence.” This title struck me as maybe unnecessarily long when I first heard it, but after “seeing” the installation several times and talking to Justin Boyd about it, it’s won me over. Because not only does ”Natural Black, Sprinkled With [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Artpace, Artpace Window Works, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Chupacabrona, field recordings, Glasstire, grackles, hills snyder, Justin Boyd, San Antonio artists, Sarah Fisch, sound art, Soundcloud interview, Texas wildlife |
By Andrea Grover on December 5, 2011
In his 2011 non-fiction book, Moonwalking with Einstein, author Joshua Foer befriends the professional “memory athlete” Ed Cooke who suggests to him that you can slow down subjective time by packing your life with as many memories as possible. (You’ve probably experienced this sensation when attending a symposium that compresses so much information into a [...]
Posted in We Have The Technology | Tagged art, art science interdisciplinary inquiry, hybrid art, science, technology |
By Peter Lucas on November 21, 2011
The new Sundance Cinemas open this Wednesday, in time for the long holiday weekend. Located Downtown at Bayou Place, Sundance promises to more than fill the gap left by the closing of the Angelica a little more than a year ago. They’ll be showing independent and foreign films alongside Hollywood blockbusters. They’ll also host special [...]
Posted in Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged art, cinema, film, hugo, into the abyss, j. edgar, melancholia, movie, my week with marilyn, Sundance |
By Sarah Fisch on October 27, 2011
So, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair is over. (Which gives me an excuse to post the above image. This particular Rachel Hecker piece is impactful and funny in-person, too.) So I’m still processing everything I saw, PLUS I’m recovering from a bout of dog-days writer’s block, which I blame on 9/11, heatstroke and having watched [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged art, Artpace, austin, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, chandeliers, crochet, Glasstire, Houston, impenetrable narrative, monofilament, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, taxidermy, texas contemporary art fair, Texas Gallery, wolves |
By Michael Bise on October 16, 2011
There’s a person somewhere in Houston. They are healthy, just entering the prime of their life. They’ve left childhood but haven’t entered old age. They might be next to you in a movie theater, at an opening or pushing a cart out of the grocery store. Maybe they’re with someone—their dad, their wife or their [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged art, artist, heart transplant, life, Michael Bise, mortality |
By Janet Tyson on October 11, 2011
Hundreds of artworks ranging from the sublime to pure schlock, artists acting like candidates for public office, local media in a state of unabashed boosterism, and a voting system that widens the digital divide. Such is ArtPrize, an event guaranteed to induce alternating bouts of dismay and enthusiasm, such that the hardened art professional collapses in exhausted [...]
Posted in Reading Room, Uncategorized | Tagged art, ArtPrize, DeVos, Grand Rapids, popularity contest, Sedrick Huckaby |
By Colette Copeland on October 7, 2011
Upon arriving at the Angelika Theater on Thursday evening for the Dallas Video Festival, I immediately noticed that I was a tad underdressed in my jeans and sandals. Surrounded by a proliferation of platinum blondes sporting five-inch-high stilettos, I waited in line for what seemed an interminable length of time. I’m in awe of anyone [...]
Posted in Article, Review | Tagged !WAR: Women, Amelia Jones, Ana Mendieta, Anima Mundi, art, B. Ruby Rich, Beauty Plus Pity, Carolee Schneemann, Collette Copeland, dallas video festival, Duke and Battersby, Eleanor Antin, Guerrilla Girls, Hannah Wilke, How to Write an Autobiography, janine antoni, Jeremiah Teutsch, Jessie Mott, Jodie Mack, Judy Chicago, Katherine Balsley, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Mark and Angela Walley, Martha Rosler, Matthew Van Hellen, Mimi Chakarova, Penny Lane, Radio Karen, Revolution, Steve Reinke, Suzanne Lacy, the Mono Show, The Price of Sex, The Saddest Song in the World, Yvonne Rainer |
By Eric Zimmerman on September 30, 2011
Small Texas towns are easy to stereotype, and often, those generalizations prove themselves to be true. Conservative politics, high school football, and abundant red meat are just a few that come to mind. Last weekend I was fortunate to be able and spend a number of days in just this kind of town installing an [...]
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