Ed note: As she does for each year the exhibition takes place, Houston-based artist and Glasstire contributor Betsy Huete has chosen her favorite Lawndale Big Show works for Glasstire. I’ve m...
https://glasstire.com/2021/07/26/betsy-huetes-big-show-top-ten-of-2021/
Now that we (well, at least those of us in the art world) are firmly removed from postmodernism’s paradigmatic grip, we can safely say that we are in the midst… The post “Wild Life: Eliza...
On August 28, 2020, Darra Keeton quietly slipped away from this world. Today, February 5, would have been her 74th birthday. Having been an abstract painter from the New York art… The post H...
I didn’t attend Sam Houston State University (SHSU), but I’ve spent plenty of time with a number of colleagues who have, either as students or professors. The common refrain from… The pos...
A cascade of delicate, yellow blossoms usher us into the far gallery at the Menil Collection in Houston, into Allora & Calzadilla’s delicious version of hell otherwise known as Specters… Th...
https://glasstire.com/2020/12/21/specters-of-noon-allora-calzadilla-at-the-menil/
In 2017, Lisa E. Harris and Nicole Mitchell, along with members of the Black Earth Ensemble, collaborated on a live performance at the Art Institute of Chicago called EarthSeed. Inspired… The...
Please note: As of June 26, the Rockport Art Festival has been cancelled and will not be rescheduled this year. The RCA auction, however, is still on. Sometimes we imagine… The post V….V...
There can be something annoying, something overly topical, when it comes to art shows that respond or offer tribute to an historic or catastrophic event, or even a social ill.… The post A Tex...
There’s a lot of talk around food in our society: how much we eat, the ingredients constituting the food we eat, how it affects our bodies, how often we photograph… The post Gaye Lynn and ...
A common criticism of identity politics, especially in art, is that it’s too didactic. And while it’s important to infiltrate and question a system whose discourse has been controlled by… ...
https://glasstire.com/2020/01/18/the-rewarding-evolution-of-paul-mpagi-sepuya/