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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 sexual overtures to him, incensed Cage and created a permanent rift with the elder statesman. Things would go downhill from there for Eastman, who struggled to make ends meet and was eventually evicted from his Lower East Side apartment, losing all his compositions and possessions in the process. As a promising young singer and pianist, Eastman had performed at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center; but he died in 1990 at the age of 49, homeless and forgotten in Buffalo, NY. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in his work, with an exhibition and tribute at the Kitchen in New York earlier this year.

Our host David McGee speaks with composer and self-described "accidental musicologist" Mary Jane Leach, who co-authored the 2015 book Gay Guerrilla (Eastman Studies in Music); and with Houston composer and writer Chris Becker.

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 with Brenda Cruz-Wulf she started the Las Girls Collective in order to collaborate on site-specific performances and experimental dance films. Antelo is also The Marriage Story Collector, an ongoing project for which she interviews strangers about how they interpret marriage.