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Here at Glasstire, scrolling through Facebook and Instagram posts is one of the ways we gather news about Texas art. Over the past few months some artists we follow have posted some gems: Angela Kallus’s perspective drawings and Scott Winterrowd’s watercolors, among others. The black-and-white images from photographer Richard Doherty, however, have been constant throughout the pandemic.

Doherty’s photos, scanned from untold quantities of boxes full of negatives, have been posted weekly on the photographer’s Facebook page. And in the process, Doherty, without comment, affords viewers a moment’s respite from the shrieking decibel of our present moment while at the same time taking a journey back to the Dallas of the 1980s and ’90s.

Armed with Kodak film, a panoramic camera, and Polaroid film from the company’s Artist Support Program (which famously fueled the works of Warhol, Rauschenberg, and others), Doherty took to the streets to take photos of his adopted Dallas neighborhood of Oak Cliff. He began work to with others, including the late Peter Ferresten, building the Tarrant County College photography program, from which he retired in 2016 after nearly 35 years.

Doherty, along with cohorts Luther Smith and Dick Lane at TCU,  Dornith Doherty (no relations) at UNT, Kenda North at UTA, Susan Kae Grant at Texas Women’s University, and Deborah Hunter at SMU, are together responsible for training some of the strongest photographers to emerge from Texas in the past 30 years.

Doherty’s portrait subjects showcase an intimate and unambiguous awareness of the camera, and an acknowledgement of the viewer. His Polaroid images, made with Type 55 and Type 665 positive/negative film, present paranormal-looking compositions of phased-out people and objects, resulting in the same kind of haze we could expect when calling up distant memories. The result is the only kind of truth a camera can give us— an accurate state of a moment. Doherty takes the measurement, and in that moment Dallas ceases to fluctuate between then and now, and becomes the photograph.

Below are some images from Doherty’s social media posts over the past few months.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How To Recognize and Handle Abnormal People
A Manual for the Police Officer
Matthews and Rowland
1978

Submitter: Another dated police manual we weeded. My colleague left this on my desk with a sticky note, “Who you calling abnormal?” and an arrow pointing the the person of color on the cover. Sigh. We don’t even say “abnormal” anymore, much less “mentally retarded.” Oy. There’s a whole section on “Abnormal Group Behavior,” which includes Civil Protest. The advice is fine; basically keep your cool, but “men in police work” need training, of course!

Holly: We actually posted the 1954 edition of this title back in 2016. Five years later, and this 1978 edition is still on library shelves! (Actually, WorldCat lists it as 1979, but the submitting university put 1978 on its call number label.) The last image (below) is interesting: “Big protests may be a thing of the past. We don’t know, of course. There will likely continue to be protests among students and ethnic groups. The function of the police department is not to restrict or prohibit people from exercising their right of protest.” Hooooboy…just gonna leave that statement right there.

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This post, what to do (even now) if you’re stuck in a job you hate , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.

I’ve always received a lot of letters from people who hate their jobs and want to leave, but since the pandemic started, a sizable portion of those people feel they have no way out. The job market makes them pessimistic about their chances of landing a new position, and with so many layoffs, they worry that even if they do get a job offer, the new role might not be as secure as the one they’d be leaving behind.

At Slate today, I wrote about how so many people feel trapped in miserable situations right now–  and what to do if you feel stuck in a job you hate. You can read it here.

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"It's only a matter of time, justice is coming," Jacob Chansley, the "QAnon Shaman," said in a hand-written note to Vice President Mike Pence.

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A design competition that stems from a partnership between the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, the African American Museum of Dallas, and Kroger, has named architect/artist Daniel M. Gunn as winner of the Staircase Project. Gunn will receive a $5,000 prize for his design, titled GIANT STEPS: Celebrating Extraordinary Achievements of African-American Leaders in STEM, which is installed on the north-facing staircase of the Perot Museum in Dallas’ cultural district. GIANT STEPS will remain on view through Monday May 31, Memorial Day.

The design open call was announced last fall and open to African-American artist and designers to create “a vibrantly colored, eye-catching design that celebrates African-American leaders in science — from history and modern day — who have made significant contributions to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).” Gunn’s winning design was selected by panelists Dr. Lauren Cross, Byron Sanders, and Arthur Simmons.

Says Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney, Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the African American Museum of Dallas: “Our partnership with the Perot Museum has been a great opportunity to link the African American experience to science and to promote African American history and culture. The design selected for the installation is very eye-catching as well as informative about the African Americans who have contributed to scientific innovation and invention in our country. This has been a very wonderful project that I am thankful the Perot Museum has undertaken.”

Gunn’s GIANT STEPS features STEM heroes Dr. Charles Drew, “father of the blood bank;” Shirley Ann Jackson, inventor and the first African-American woman to earn an MIT doctorate; Dr. Mae Jemison, physician, engineer and the first African-American woman in space; multi-patent holding engineer and entrepreneur Otis Frank Boykin of Dallas; George Washington Carver; and NASA scientists Katherine Johnson and Mary Winston Jackson.

“Far too often the important contributions made by African Americans to the advancement of STEM have been untold, unheard and unseen. This magnificent design from Daniel M. Gunn shines a much-needed light on these hidden figures,” says Dr. Linda Silver, the Perot Museum’s Chief Executive Officer.

Says Gunn:. “Architects Paul Revere Williams and Norma Merrick Sklarek were two trailblazers who paved the way for me and many other African-American men and women to pursue careers in architecture. I was compelled to include these significant figures because African Americans are not very visible in the field of architecture.”

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Gunn is a 36-year-old architect employed at Oglesby Greene Architects in downtown Dallas. Born in Alabama, he has lived in New Jersey as well as Louisiana, where he graduated with an architecture degree from Louisiana Tech University in 2008. He picked up a pencil at age five and has been drawing and painting ever since. He states that “When I’m not busy designing buildings by day, I’m honing my skills with the paintbrush on canvas by night.”

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Last year’s Martin Luther King Day parade in downtown Houston was full of fanfare and pomp. Marching bands from area schools lined up and proceeded in cadence, the light from the luminous winter sun sparkled off brass instruments and glittery costumes, and beaming faces greeted a pre-pandemic crowd that gathered to watch the festivities.

It was my first Houston parade, not counting the Thanksgiving parade one winter before, when I had no clue I would be living in Houston one year later. Were it not for the fact that this would be my first MLK Day celebration in my new city, I may have skipped it, thinking “I’ll go next year.”

The uncertainty of rising coronavirus infections has put everything on hold or online, including the 2021 parade, which has been transformed into a virtual event here in Houston, as well as Dallas and other cities across Texas. Until next year (fingers, toes, and everything else crossed), here are a dozen images from last year’s parade. Happy MLK Day!

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If you live in Houston, you’ve probably heard of the various nicknames given to the city’s inner-loop Krogers. Perhaps the most well-known and talked about of these monikers was Disco Kroger — AKA the grocery store near the intersection of Westheimer and Montrose. This Kroger was named for its crowds, which oftentimes flooded into the (then-) 24-hour store after bars closed; for it’s soundtrack; and for its location in the heart of Houston’s longtime LGBTQ+ community. (There is also, coincidentally, a Disco Kroger in Atlanta.)

Earlier this month, Disco Kroger shut its doors for the last time. Though the store had been open for 42 years, and was just recently remodeled, it was no longer a profitable location. The announcement was made in November, and, as expected, op-eds about the store came rolling in. A few of those are below.

What we at Glasstire immediately thought of upon hearing about the closing was SexyATTACK’s 2008 dance/performance inside the store. That’s also below.

Though Disco Kroger may be gone, it will never be forgotten.

Houston Chronicle: Montrose’s iconic ‘Disco Kroger’ will close in January

Houstonia: So Long, Disco Kroger, You Charmingly Unpretty Sightz

Houston Press: Farewell, Disco Kroger

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“Democrats are gonna impeach the president for a second time, one week before he leaves office. Why? Politics, and the fact that they want to cancel the president.” – Rep. Jim Jordan in House impeachment hearings, 1/13/2021

The teenagers of Haddonfield, Illinois, have a one-track communal mind, consumed only with visions of taking down distinguished serial killer Michael Myers, and it should make one thing clear to us all: cancel culture has gotten out of hand.

How can we protect our essential freedoms when only one side is being heard? You can’t even have a debate in this town anymore. Everyone is so quick to side with Laurie Strode, Annie Brackett, and Alice Martin, who were slain by Mr. Myers, and no one stops to consider that this whole uproar may just be a political move to tear down a self-made man.

This PC mob of high schoolers sees a savvy, successful guy with a mild case of vengeful and misogynistic bloodlust, and they become hellbent on tearing him down at any cost. They’ve been after him his entire career. First, they broke into hysterics when he murdered his sister at age six and had him locked up in Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. And now, they want him punished for the gruesome killing spree he performed in Haddonfield on Halloween night? When he’s sure to be skipping town in a few days anyway? Give me a break.

Here’s the most frightening part of the whole debacle: these suburban teenagers will clearly send psychiatric authority Dr. Loomis after anybody whose actions they disagree with. Sure, right now, it’s only knife-wielding masked assailants being canceled, but soon, it will be the butcher behind the deli counter, then your own family, then you. If we allow Michael Myers to be tried for his crimes, it will set an eerie precedent. Soon, cancel culture will come for us all.

This is not what our community needs right now. Locking up Michael Myers does not bring Haddonfield together. It only cements the growing divide between teenage babysitters and the slashers who hunt and kill them. And without unity, how can we as a town properly heal from the string of murders he committed?

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