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    2012 Fall Preview

    GT contributors

    Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super smart curator and art historian Andy Campbell invited New York- and Stockholm-based artist Emily Roysdon to take over the VAC’s Vaulted Gallery for the fall semester. I first heard of Roysdon in [...]

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    Museum Expansion and the MFAH

    Claire Ruud

    A few weeks ago, Artnews’ feature on Gary Tinterow discussed the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s plans to build a new wing for modern and contemporary art, at a cost of $250 to $300 million. The museum has announced the project’s architect, Steven Holl, but has not yet made a case for the expansion publicly. [...]

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    350 Words: “Hybrid Forms” at AMOA-Arthouse

    Caitlin Greenwood

    Hybrid Forms at AMOA-Arthouse seeks to codify new media as a traditional art medium. With contributions from ten artists, the exhibition is anchored by video innovator Nam June Paik’s Zen for TV. First created in 1963, the original work sprang from an accidentally-damaged television with a single line on the screen—a moment of Zen striking [...]

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    Sightings: Erick Swenson at the Nasher

    Lucia Simek

    Before I entered the gallery to see Erick Swenson’s Sightings at the Nasher, a guard politely stopped me at the door and warned me that there was work in the space that was a bit grotesque and perhaps not for the faint of heart. I thanked her, told her I was prepared to face the [...]

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    Radcliffe Bailey at the McNay: Back to School

    Sarah Fisch

    There’s this faction of contemporary artists who seem to feel at pains to jargonize, obfuscate and otherwise Other-ize their own work. If you need to have read Derrida and to have seen the whole canon to get what an artist is doing, that’s cool. But cool is a value of middling worth. The pernicious cycle of [...]

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2012 Glasstire Virtual Residency: Chuck Ivy

Chuck Ivy

Chuck Ivy presents his 2012 Glasstire Virtual Residency. I consider myself a research artist, developing rules, frameworks and systems with which I investigate media and culture. Through a balance of algorithmic process and personal aesthetic, I synthesize video, generative photography, cut-up texts, sound collages and other New Media art often stemming from appropriated materials. My [...]

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The Future is Fungal: Interview with Phil Ross

Andrea Grover

Phil Ross (San Francisco) works in the realm of “biotechniques.” He makes sculptural and architectural works from plants and fungi, and videos about live cultures. As the founder and director of CRITTER – a salon centered-around DIY biology events, he has organized events like “Enormous Microscopic Evening” at the Hammer Museum (2010). His multi-decade research [...]

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Chupacabrona, California. (One.)

Sarah Fisch

Hey y’all.   This morning, I went to an intro to meditation workshop held at Shambhala Center Los Angeles. I woke up early to go! To a meditation workshop! it felt vaguely like I was going to church except the Shambhala Center is in a sort of Zen late midcentury low-slung combination office residential compound in [...]

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‘Gallery Girl’ on “Gallery Girls,” Episode 4

Casey Stranahan

Let me just start this off by apologizing if this post seems less inspired than my previous four. You see, I’m lucky I remembered what day Monday was this week. And no, I don’t mean that it was “Gallery Girls” Day, I mean that it was a Monday at all. An example of my brain [...]

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