"This is a human struggle. We’re disconnected from the past, and history."
Sarah Fisch
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With James Cobb’s new show, Fl!ght gallery @ Blue Star comes of age.
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BlogGlasstireProfileReview
No Walls: the Expanded Curatorial Practice of Michele Monseau
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischThe rejiggering at Blue Star has transferred Monseau's energy to an expanded and exciting pop-up curatorial practice.
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GlasstireOp Ed
Chupacabrona, California (Two: Grad school confidential)
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischAm I a washout as a modern American thinker if I have trouble learning Photoshop? ...Yes, right? Shit.
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1988 was a rotten time to be a teenager. During the Reagan-Bush era, you had to put in a lot of work to hear something other than Bon…
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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…
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A midcareer retrospective of the exuberant and far-reaching Radcliffe Bailey takes on African American history, to world-expanding effect.
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BlogGlasstireOp Ed
Meanwhile, in San Antonio: Wolverton and Guy Hundere
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischUnpretentious art-rock and the collective ideas of the dorks: This is San Anto, y'all.
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There’s been a grave interruption in my tour reporting, I realize. Rigoberto Gonzalez Facebooked me thusly the other day: WTF? (I’m paraphrasing). Here’s what happened: from January through May, I amassed…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part II
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischContinued from Part I… V. Reynosa, Narcolandia and sad, sad data It’s important to point out that Rigoberto Gonzalez is not a Chicano artist, though he shares a lot of…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part I
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischRigoberto Gonzalez applies Baroque technique to scenes of narcoviolence. The result isn't journalism, but epic poetry.
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GlasstireOp Ed
The Chupacabrona Tour, Part 2: On South Texas Identity, or The Wild Nudes of McAllen
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischSouth Texas: vast, under appreciated, and misunderstood, Also: naked. Check it out.
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Op Ed
The Chupacabrona Tour, Part 1: Eisenstein in Corpus Christi, or A Fresh Eye
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischOf Soviet film theory and experimentation in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Did you go to this thing? Houston’s Art Ball — aka Disaster Ball, a fundraiser for this here publication, it was. I went all the way from San Antonio. I…
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Wherein your narrator is roped into a dangerous collaboration in NYC, by dint of being from Texas.
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GlasstireOp Ed
End-of-2011 recommendation: Justin Boyd’s boids at Artpace
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischYou have until the 31st to be enchanted and freaked out by Justin Boyd's magnificent sound sculpture, “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence" at Artpace. It's a Window Works visual/sound installation, so all you have to do is park out front and listen. "Open" 24 hours a day. Particularly enchanting at night. Don't miss this crazy thing.
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This is Guillermina “Gisha” Zabala, an artist and filmmaker from Argentina who makes her home in San Antonio with her Uruguayan husband Enrique Lopetegui, music editor of the San…
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Follow Chupacabrona across the Rio Grande Valley, along the border, and into West Texas, and see challenging contemporary work from this under-reported region. You can donate, too.
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The Chupacabrona Tour: One woman, a car, a computer and a camera set out to cover challenging contemporary art in South and West Texas.
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ArticleGlasstireReview
Queer State(s) at the UT Visual Art Center: Out of Nowhere
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischA generation after coming-out stories, AIDS and activism, and LGBT and transgender media celebrities, what does contemporary Queer art mean now?