End-of-2011 recommendation: Justin Boyd’s boids at Artpace
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 [...]
On the Boards: Hills Snyder’s Three Minutes
Hills Snyder, artist, Glasstire contributor, and director of small non-profit gallery Sala Diaz, made a short speech at the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) City Council Appointed Cultural Arts Board (CAB) * meeting on Saturday. The speech was occasioned by criticism of a production this Spring of Terrence McNally’s play Corpus [...]
Dallas Art Fair(s)
Last week I wrote about Houston’s dueling art fairs coming up this fall. Scheduled one month apart, each has a New York area organizer. It got me thinking about Dallas’s two art fairs last April, held on the same weekend and each locally organized. The fledgling Suite Art Fair debuted at the Belmont Hotel while [...]
“You’re never gonna make it flat, anyway:” Jung Mun and the Sala Diaz effect
I’ve seen the Sala Diaz effect encourage unprecedented audacity more than once. More than ten times. The secret is, to a large extent, the flip-flop of the usual S.A. gallery show, in which an artist hangs finished work in the course of one or two days, and that art hangs or stands in there for [...]