Menil Moves to Cement New Talent: Michelle White Promoted to Full Curator
Michelle White, who curated such fascinating, unexpected shows as Imaginary Spaces: Selections from the Menil Collection; Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance, [...]
Carter Bags Elusive Cassatt for its 50th Birthday Present
The Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth has gifted itself with Mary Cassatt’s Standing Woman, Holding a Fan (1878-79), a transitional work in distemper (chalk-and-glue [...]
SMU Moss/Chumley Award: $1500 Looking for New Home in N. TX Artist’s Pocket
SMU’s Meadows Museum is looking for North Texas artists with ten years of professional exhibitions and a proven track record as a community advocate for [...]
“Jennifer Rubell: Nutcrackers” at Dallas Contemporary
To anticipate Nutcrackers, Jennifer Rubell’s freakily constructed mannequin brothel of an exhibition, you might expect to go into an early phase of ribald amusement or [...]
TX Contemporary: A Blogthology
In addition to Glasstire’s erratic artfair coverage, varying with the signal strength of the GRB’s wi-fi jamming, a number of other people had something to [...]
Art Car Apostle Rebecca Bass Spreads the Word to Chattanooga: Parade Set for April 2012
Houston art car apostle Rebecca Bass is in Chattanooga, Tennessee this weekend, leading a workshop for educators, artists and the curious as they transform a [...]
Texas Contemporary Art Fair Opening Party: A Bestiary
Look, these are all gonna be iPhone photos. I’m sorry about that. Soon as I can, I plan to purchase a real camera, but meanwhile, [...]
350 Words: Gabriel Dawe at Peel Gallery
In his site-specific installation Plexus No. 9, Gabriel Dawe layers a subtly shifting palette of rainbow-colored thread with mind-boggling precision. Stretched from floor to ceiling and nearly wall-to-wall [...]
Texas Contemporary Art Fair: LIVE BLOG
BLOG CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED!!! The Texas Contemporary Art Fair is open! The Glasstire staff will be live-blogging the fair through Sunday. Come by and see us [...]
Potter Belmar Labs in SA and Aaron Forland’s guerrilla public art: Goodbye to all that (fer now)
Aaron Forland, San Antonio visual artist, SA’s unofficial DIY/underground/punk rock historian and creator of the “Keep San Antonio Lame” meme, has been and continues [...]
Insta-curating: World’s Shortest Art Show Turnaround at Occupy Houston
Organized on October 16, presented on the 17th, the Occupy Houston Art Show was an outdoor, all day event, and featuring live art, music, and [...]
Maxwell Anderson Named New DMA Director
The Dallas Museum of Art has announced that Dr. Maxwell L. Anderson has been appointed as its new Eugene McDermott Director. Anderson is currently Director [...]
Unit B: Michele Monseau’s “Elephant in the Room”
Lucky has been anything but. A 46-year resident of the San Antonio Zoo, the sixtyish, female elephant became a cause célèbre for animal rights activists [...]
TX Contemporary Fair Countdown: CAMH Benefit Preview in 2:56
Enormous aisles, enormous booths, enormous art, all surrounded by a fortification of shipping containers: the TX Contemporary Fair promises already to be a whopper. From [...]
Middle School Art Teacher Fired, Charged With Felony in Bottle Throwing Incident
Crystal Lara Andrus, an art teacher at Morton Ranch Junior High School in Katy, TX was fired Wednesday after an incident in which she, enraged [...]
Move Over Brewseum: Dallas’ Doggies in the District Smashes Museum Pun Record
“Doga,” yoga with your dog, a “Pawcasso Photo Shoot”, and the “Dog Day Afternoon” guide to the DMA’s Collections are just three of the activities [...]
Pony is GO!
Sources confirm the booking of Pepe, the Glasstire Pony for the opening of the TX Contemporary Art fair this Thursday evening. Although Pepe, (or Trigger, [...]
Overhaul, Transmission Failure, Near-Sinking: Shrimp Boat Project Nets a Boatload of Good Stories, and A Few Shrimp.
After six months of non-stop work during the longest and hottest summer in decades, the intrepid fishermen/trans-media artists at Shrimp Boat Projects were finally able [...]
Dance Battle Of The Year: Footloose VS. Pina
It. Is. On! A heated battle is brewing on the big screen as two big, new dance films come to Houston theaters. In one corner, [...]
Chance of Pony Now 50/50
Recent confidential email between Glasstire founder Rainy Knudson and Heather Wagner of Juice Consulting, the PR firm handling the TX Contemporary Art Fair, reveals that [...]
