Glasstire

In our latest Art Dirt podcast, Brandon Zech and Christina Rees talk about the merits of shock value, the uselessness of labels, and the dread of getting stuck watching a bad performance.

In our latest Art Dirt podcast, Brandon Zech and Christina Rees start out talking about artists who have been kicked off of Instagram, but quickly devolve into how social media platforms can be useful and problematic ways of engaging with the art world. "I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone saying that no moderation whatsoever is the solution to this problem...I don't know why our darkest...

Peter Plagens: Artist-Slash-Critic by Glasstire

In this podcast, Glasstire's William Sarradet catches some notable exhibitors at the Dallas Art Fair on its opening night, to chat about the art they're showing this year. Exhibitors in this podcast include Cris Worley Fine Arts (Dallas), Harlan Levey Projects (Belgium), Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art (Houston), galerie frank elbaz (Paris/Dallas), Green Art Gallery (Dubai), Ulterior Gallery (New York),...

Day five of Glasstire’s podcast from the Satellite Art Show in Austin was guest hosted by Austin-based artist and curator Rebecca Marino. On the episode, she talks with four individuals participating in Satellite: Sarah Sudhoff, Ana Vizcarra Rankin, Daniel Lisi, and Sherri Littlefield — and with the event's producer, Anna-Liisa Benston. This is the fifth in a series of podcasts brought to you by G...

Day four of Glasstire’s podcast from the Satellite Art Show in Austin was guest hosted by Austin-based artist Tammie Rubin. On the episode, Brandon Zech talks with Rubin about what’s up with ceramics, the grittiness of Austin art spaces, and how artists can build the kind of community they want to be a part of. This episode also features two other conversations: the first with Satellite exhibiting...

Day three of Glasstire’s podcast from the Satellite Art Show in Austin was guest hosted by Austin-based gallerist Jill Schroeder of grayDUCK Gallery. On the episode, Brandon Zech talks with Schroeder about what it's like running a gallery in Austin, performances at Satellite, and a big show by an under-recognized artist now on view in New York. This episode also features two other conversations wi...

Day two of Glasstire’s podcast from the Satellite Art Show in Austin was guest hosted by Austin-based artist Michael Anthony García. On the episode, he talks with two artists participating in Satellite —  Nicole Goodwin and Elizabeth Axtman — about the politics of blackness, the history of slavery, and the complex relationship between Jeffrey Dahmer and O. J. Simpson. This is the second in a serie...

For day one of Glasstire's podcast from the Satellite Art Show in Austin, we talked to Houston-based performance artist and Experimental Action festival co-organizer Julia Claire Wallace, and Satellite's performance art curator and Performance Is Alive founder Quinn Dukes, about the challenges of producing performances at an art fair, Texas' performance art community, and their advice for budding...

Neil Fauerso talks to Austin's Daedelus Hoffman and Lindsay Starr run Cattywampus Press and Dirty Dark Place, among other art endeavors.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss all the ways the Banksy prank of half-shredding a painting during a Sotheby's auction was unimpressive.

A conversation with author Pete Gershon on the publication of his book Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985. With Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees.

Neil Fauerso talks to Hills Snyder — a Texas and New Mexico-based artist and Glasstire contributor — about the draw of the American West, alternative ways of talking about and teaching art, and how a small New Mexico town differs from Marfa. “In my class at UTSA, I’m a sort of homeopathic tincture that’s an alternative to the usual Western art history trip you get at an American university art pro...

Neil Fauerso talks to Veronica Ortuño — owner and director of Las Cruxes in Austin (a gallery, shop, performance and community space) — about aesthetic development, her new interior projects in Detroit, and actualizing your vision.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss the big Texas shows we'd most like to see, and why we're launching the Glasstire Art Writing Prize. “If you give the the strongest artists in Texas the space to stretch out and perform, and the resources to make really great work, they do it. They bring their game.”

Neil Fauerso, based in San Antonio, is Glasstire's Guest Features Editor this summer. In this podcast, Neil chats with Glasstire's Editor-in-Chief Christina Rees about the first art they were exposed to, the vitality of horror, the Trump movie trailer, and the art-political landscape of Texas.

In this podcast, Brandon Zech interviews circus performer and artist Johnny Meah about his life, his work, and how carnivals have changed over the past 50 years.

Julius Eastman was a provocative, outspoken composer active in the 1970s experimental music scene in New York. His titles for his works, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, and Crazy Nigger, created an uproar at the time among academic circles and continue to provoke discomfort. His infamous 1975 performance of John Cage's Song Books, in which Eastman undressed a male volunteer onstage and made...

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss whether artists really have to be politically engaged in their work.

Brandon Zech on a series of signs that are ubiquitous in the Houston landscape. For a written version of this story, and for more pictures of the FIX OVEN A/C signs, go here: http://glasstire.com/2018/04/30/the-story-of-houstons-fix-oven-a-c-signs/

A conversation with host David McGee and guests Felicia Johnson and Stanford W. Carpenter about the cultural phenomenon of the movie The Black Panther, which as of writing is the top-grossing super hero movie of all time in the US, having surpassed $1.3 billion globally in revenues. Recording, mix, and original music by @cbeckermusic.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss controversies in the museum world about where the money is coming from. "If the Kochs want to make a $35 million donation to Glasstire, we'll certainly consider it."

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss artist Christoph Büchel's proposal to designate the prototypes for a wall between the US and Mexico as a national monument, and whether any of this is art.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss the new, $23 million Ellsworth Kelly artwork titled "Austin" on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, and why on earth the people in charge don't want it to be called a chapel.

Daniela Antelo is an artist and realtor living and working in Houston. Her art is primarily performative uses the body to deal with ideas around communication, relationships, and the urban landscape. Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, she moved to Florida with her family at age 12, and after living abroad in Dubai, she moved to Houston in 2010 when her husband was relocated for work.  Together wi...