View this email in your browser In This Issue Comment of the Week Ben Rubin Laura Lark Loves You #4 Experimental Film The Big Show James Surls Christina Sukhgian Houle, Part II Bill’s European Vacation, Part II More Documenta Job Listings TX Art Writers Need YOU. 100% of your tax-deductible donation of $20 or more will go towards paying our writers. Thank you.   Monday August 13, 2012 Comment of the Week [He] showed me where the land mines were set, the trip wires strung, led me through the pile of horse manure right to the diamond. Not many people can do that for you, much less care to do that for you. - Cody Stromberg on "Bill Komodore, Dallas Painter of Texarcadia, 1932-2012" back to top Ben Rubin Katie Geha interviews Ben Rubin, the artist who created And That’s The Way It Is for UT’s Landmark public art program. “I have started to wonder whether in some cases artworks are just a convenient excuse to do the research that is interesting to me." back to top Laura Lark Loves You #4 Laura Lark says, yes, finding a gallery is exactly like dating. ...You will see that getting your art on the market is as easy as reading a generic and irrelevant text that’s sure to infantilize you and bludgeon you into a passive state that will make you as malleable as a teenaged geisha or an orphan in a Dickensian-style workhouse. back to top Experimental Film Peter Lucas previews an experimental film bonanza, courtesy of Aurora Picture Show, the Menil Collection and Rice Cinema. 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! back to top The Big Show Sebastien Bouncy takes issue with the Big Show. What’s the matter Big Show? You into schadenfreude? back to top James Surls John Aäsp heads to Colorado and visits Surls World. ...while he may not seem academically art-booked enough for New York, or not ironically culture-jammed enough for L.A., Surls is indeed a genuine force. back to top Christina Sukhgian Houle, Part II Leslie Castro posts part II of her chat with Texas State grad Christina Sukhgian Houle. So I woke up and went to make coffee and there’s this guy right there in the window looking at me. back to top Bill’s European Vacation, Part II The European edition of Bill Davenport’s Houston Artletter. Typical postwar apartment buildings, called “council blocks”, or “tower blocks” are scattered throughout London like bits of gristle in cheap salami. back to top More Documenta Rachel Hooper offers up Part II of her Dispatches from Documenta. The subject is the Arab Spring, specifically the violent images of the revolution captured on cell phones. The flip books showed short videos taken with cell phones by people who seem to be shot by the end of the video. back to top Job Listings Executive Director Aurora Picture Show Deadline: August 30 Internships Aurora Picture Show Deadline: December 1, April 15, August 15 Gallery Internship Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas Deadline: ASAP We're listing jobs outside of Texas, too, including jobs at MOMA, the Guggenheim, and abroad. See all job listings back to top instantly © 2001 - 2012 Glasstire | P.O. Box 70408 | Houston, Texas 77270-0408