Glasstire

Jessica Fuentes talks with Dallas' Darryl Ratcliff about the rise of unions for arts and culture workers.

"Ultimately, we're all served by a more engaged public, and we're all served by taking care of people. And I know that our large institutions and their supporters want to do that, and sometimes it is up to us as artists, as culture workers, as people who are more on the ground, to help lead the way."

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2023/11/05/art-dirt-discussing-the-rise-of-art-culture-worker-unions-with-guest-darryl-ratcliff

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William Sarradet talks with Eric Schnell about what it's like to live, work, and run a ten-month residency program in Galveston.

"Galveston is exactly the right size, where you can hold the whole island in your brain at one time. If it were bigger, that wouldn't be possible."

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2023/10/22/art-dirt-talking-with-artist-galveston-artist-residency-director-eric-schnell

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Brandon Zech talks with special guest Jon Revett about life in the Texas Panhandle and about the 50th anniversary of artist Robert Smithson's "Amarillo Ramp."

"Smithson is using the land to give you a place to re-view the land and see it from a different point of view and think about it in a different way."

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2023/10/08/art-dirt-amarillo-ramp-cadillac-ranch-the-texas-panhandle-with-jon-revett

Thanks to this week's podcast sponsor, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and their exhibition, "The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy," on view now through January 21, 2024. On Thursday, October 12, at 7 p.m., Topchy will be joined by Timothy Morton, the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, for an Artist Talk in conjunction with the show. The talk and the museum are both free to the public. Find details here: https://www.menil.org

Jessica Fuentes, William Sarradet, and Brandon Zech discuss exhibitions they've seen so far this fall, including shows at The Warehouse, Ruby City, Inman Gallery, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and beyond.

"If you're going to use a kooky installation technique for a show, you've got to go all or nothing."

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2023/09/24/art-dirt-discussing-fall-exhibitions-in-texas

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To wrap up the summer, Jessica Fuentes and William Sarradet discuss what this season's hottest blockbuster says about our current moment.

"The film has this incredible potency, but somehow it very neatly ties up what it aims to do...which is totally fine, but I feel like there's some need to find out what happens next, because we just spent a year waiting for this movie to come out and now it's over...so what's next?"

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2023/09/10/art-dirt-are-we-living-in-a-barbie-world

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Jessica Fuentes and Brandon Zech discuss our recent loss of numerous influential Texas art legends, and talk about the implications of Frieze's acquisition of The Armory Show and EXPO CHICAGO.

"The people who are building a future in Texas are very much committed to being here and working here and buffing up and adding to the Texas art scene."

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2023/08/27/art-dirt-a-changing-of-the-art-guard-when-a-locally-run-art-fair-is-bought-out

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Leslie Moody Castro and Brandon Zech discuss what's been happening in the art world this summer, including Sotheby's buying the Breuer Building in NYC, an increase in museum admission prices, and the Dallas Museum of Art picking an architecture firm to redesign its building. 

"One element of this new design is a major almost floating contemporary art gallery at the top of the museum...this design and this incoming collection could transform the Dallas Museum of Art into one of the more important museums for contemporary art in America."

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2023/08/13/art-dirt-museum-admission-prices-increase-sothebys-buys-the-breuer-building-the-dmas-big-redesign

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William Sarradet talks with Dallas artist Andrea Tosten about calligraphy, her artwork, and her new position at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center.

"I think my main point of being in this position is to get city dollars into artists' hands — public hands."

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2023/07/30/art-dirt-talking-with-artist-andrea-tosten

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Jessica Fuentes and William Sarradet discuss their visits to Dallas-Fort Worth's newly opened Meow Wolf location.

"One of the things about truly great art is that it changes every time you revisit it; you bring something new to it, you see something new in it, and you get to continue to explore it in various levels over an extended period of time."

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2023/07/16/art-dirt-a-visit-to-meow-wolf-grapevine

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Brandon Zech talks with Ann Graham, who for the past ten years has run Texans for the Arts, about the ins an outs of art funding policy and how to advocate for art in your community.

"At Texans for the Arts, we know that the arts are essential to our lives, so how do we bring that passion and commitment to the fore so citizens can get engaged, artist leaders and artists can get engaged, and elected officials and decision makers can get engaged."

See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2023/07/02/art-dirt-talking-with-ann-graham-from-texans-for-the-arts

If you enjoy Glasstire and would like to support our work, please consider donating. As a nonprofit, all of the money we receive goes back into our coverage of Texas art. You can make a one-time donation or become a sustaining, monthly donor here: https://glasstire.com/donate