Dispatches from Documenta: Part III, Can art change the world?
For Part I, click here. For Part II, click here. Why do certain artworks have such a lasting impact? To stay with me, artworks usually have to affect some kind of change in me. I believe that art can change the world by changing the way you see the world or making your experience as [...]
Summer exhibitions at Box 13 ArtSpace
Box 13 ArtSpace on the east side of Houston just opened their first set of summer exhibitions featuring a roster of artists from around the world. At a time when most places have stopped doing exhibitions of international artists, it is encouraging to see an artist-run space still fostering art as an global conversation, budget [...]
Performance Here, There and on the Internets
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 [...]
LOW IMPACT (RESISTANCE TO FLOW / THISISBOBDYLANTOME) SUBJECT TO CHANGE at Lawndale Art Center
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 [...]
Cinema Arts Festival Houston
This Wednesday evening, the third annual Cinema Arts Festival Houston launches five days of film screenings, multimedia performances, video installations, and artist talks in venues around the city. CAFH is unique in the film festival world because it’s not so much a celebration of movies as it is an exploration of film’s relationships with all [...]
Daniel Adame
Glasstire audio slideshow profiling sculptor, dancer, performer and seamster Daniel Adame. Photographs by Will van Overbeek.