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By Janet Tyson on January 13, 2013
Lynn Barber lives in Rapid City, South Dakota. She has degrees in microbiology and law, and intermittently works as a patent attorney. She enjoys playing the hammer dulcimer and the concertina. She’s married to a shy guy named Dave, who holds advanced degrees in meteorology and theology. Both are members of the ACLU and are [...]
Posted in Blog, Reading Room, Uncategorized | Tagged Big Year, birding, birds, Dave Barber, extreme birder, lynn barber, owls, photography, sandy komito |
By Rachel Hooper on December 9, 2012
We arrived at Blue Star Thursday night to a performance of Justin Randolph Thompson’s Tossin’ the Rag as part of his exhibition Meet Me in the Bottoms. A rag doll was being thrown in the air from a blanket while the artist performed with a group of collaborators. They were accompanied by a small band facing [...]
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By Bill Davenport on September 18, 2012
NY times blogger James Estrin contrasts the measured connoisseurship of an old-style photographic festival with the estimated 380 billion photographs taken last year by camera phones, or the 380 million uploaded to Facebook every day. Estrin rails against photographs used as “a chintzy currency in a social interaction,” and fears the that professional photographers will [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged erik kessels, facebook, fikr, foam magazine, james estrin, photography |
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 June 30, 2012
Robert Frank’s 1950s at the MFAH The new exhibition, American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opens next weekend. The show will feature an extremely wide variety of both fine art and decorative works from the museum’s collection, made between the 18th and 20th centuries. They’re boasting an [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged Beat poets, film, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, photography, Robert Frank |
By Sebastien Boncy on June 3, 2012
You need to go see Danny Lyon’s brilliant photographs while they’re up at the Menil. The words that follow contain praise, but also doubt, disappointment and resentment. Should my feelings become obscured by muddled expression, please return to the first sentence. I was immediately disappointed upon entering the small gallery that houses This World Is [...]
Posted in Article, Review | Tagged Crossing The Ohio, Danny Lyon, Documentary, Hacked Documentary, hcp, houston center for photography, Jesse Stone, John Cleary, John Cleary Library, Lyrical Documentary, menil, menil collection, Merci Gonaives, New Journalism, Photo Essay, Photobook, photography, Richard Serra, The BikeRiders, This World Is Not My Home, toby kamps, Warren Ellis, White Box |
By Sebastien Boncy on April 23, 2012
Let’s talk Deadwood. David Milch’s superlative television show was quite good at putting his audience just outside of a given situation. The characters often spoke and behaved in ways that were perfectly crystal within their world, but may have seemed murky to the audience. That is, until the code was broken. It’s an [...]
Posted in Blog, Monocular | Tagged Alexander Gronsky, Alexander Slusarev, Andrey Chezhin, Art Photography, Belarus, Boris Mikhailov, David Milch, Deadwood, Evgeny Yufit, FotoFest, fotofest biennial, Galina Moskaleva, Liberalization and Experimentation, Mestnost, Nikolay Bakharev, Nikolay Kulebyakin, Perestroika, photography, Roman Pyatkovka, Russia, Sergey Chilikov, Ukraine, Vladimir Kupriyanov |
By Rachel Hooper on March 13, 2012
Choreography a collaboration by Jim Nolan and Linda Post. Documentation of opening night performance featuring: Daniel Adame, Shanon Adams, Tina Shariffskul and Prudence Sun. Documentation by Lillie Monstrum. For their exhibition at Lawndale Art Center, Jim Nolan and Linda Post have gathered institutional props, mellow sounds, and documentation of the exhibition’s installation as their [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged dance, FotoFest, jim nolan, Lawndale Art Center, linda post, music, performance, photography, post-minimalism, video |
By Dan R. Goddard on September 9, 2011
For 21 days representing all the societal and environmental abuse of 21 centuries, San Antonio artist Carla Veliz beat, scraped, tore, kicked, stomped on and generally tormented a soft, innocent piece of silk. Then she spent another 21 days trying to undo the damage to create “XXI: Who We Are and Who We Could Become.” [...]
Posted in Alamo City, Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged Carla Veliz, Fotoseptiembre, Gallery Nord, photography, Ramin Samandari, San Antonio |
By Bill Davenport on March 21, 2011
B. Hollyman, a new gallery focusing on fine photography has opened in the former space of L. Nowlin fine photography at 1202-A W. 6th St., Austin. Owner Burnes Saint Patrick Hollyman recounts his well-heeled photographic genealogy on the new gallery’s “about” page, and is making his first show a tribute to “his father, Thomas Benton [...]
Posted in Newswire, Uncategorized | Tagged austin, gorence, hollyman, photography |