Monday April 15, 2013
Making art about art is a common strategy. It often comes off as just a short-lived art world inside joke. I would encourage artists to mine their experience and/or perception of a larger reality, if their goal is to make truly great art. - Rainey Knudson on 35th Annual Master’s Thesis Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum
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The 5th Dallas Art Fair crammed Dallas with art this weekend. Glasstire Editor Bill Davenport had fun trying to see it all [stay tuned for the second, longer installation of Bill's fair round-up].
It’s a tough arena for art. Squashed, hurried, badly lit, and out of context, but there are enough works with enough space and enough guts to take this kind of abuse to make this Dallas art Fair the least depressing I’ve seen.
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Sebatien Boncy has lunch with a John Biggers mural in the cafeteria at Texas Southern University.
In the brouhaha of a regular lunch hour, [the mural] is intimate rather than majestic. It must earn attentions minute by minute; it is not a respected relic, but an agent on active duty.
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Houston Artist Beth Secor recalls her first touch of fame as a visual artist.
My father said, Hey Gordy! Come on over here, this looks just like you!
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Colette Copeland loses sleep trying to find a fresh way to look at one of the most renowned (and written about) photographers of the past thirty years.
Today’s rendition would include a Victoria Secret black push-up bra with a matching lacy thong. Instead of a hand mirror, the model would be holding her IPhone, snapping a pic to post on FB.
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A recent grad herself, Debra Barrera takes a census of the University of Houston's latest contributions to the ever-growing pool of new MFAs.
When my three years of were nearly over I thought to myself: “Maybe this is all I get, maybe I’ll end up working in ‘communications’ or hawking toy helicopters at the mall.
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Veronica Salinas visits San Antonio artist/bon vivant Franco Mondini-Ruiz's out-of-this-world petting zoo, aviary, and painting studio for an opulent Easter-themed extravaganza.
I can only describe the compound as being the West Side meets Versailles—where lavish gardens, art, cacti, sculptures, ponds and a botanica create an exotic Garden of Eden-meets-hacienda oasis.
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Katie Geha reads between the lines at the info/shop of artist collective Temporary Services, at Texas State in San Marcos.
One of the main tenets of Temporary Services is that art and life are not separate. A roadside memorial is just as artful as a painting by de Kooning, and the service they provide is information.
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