Interview with Gunilla Klingberg
Gunilla Klingberg has transformed Rice Gallery, from the building’s entrance to the interior of the gallery, with her signature radiating patterns. The installation, the latest [...]
Juan de Dios Mora’s “Laters” is More Attention-Getting Than a Chancla Slap to the Face!
Juan de Dios Mora‘s exhibition Laters delves into an imaginary sub-reality created on the U.S. and Mexico border. His linocut prints depict mechanical vehicles in [...]
There’s a Forrest Bess on eBay?
If there ever was a dubious listing for art on eBay, this is it: new seller wart1963ray, with no feedback record, and no other items [...]
Plant Saga Settles: “Hysteria over a somewhat silly piece of art” fades into “one of the more bizarre art world episodes in recent memory.”
D magazine’s Peter Simek summed up the Art Guys Marry A Plant saga for Salon Magazine Tuesday. No news, but it’s a foreshadowing of how [...]
Modern Art is Like Math That You Don’t Understand: Henderson’s 4D Book Reissued by MIT Press
Dr. Linda Henderson’s famous book, The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art, first published in 1983, has been expanded and reissued by the [...]
What’s Got 10,000 Springs, but No Nails?
Beginning tomorrow, January 31, The International Museum of Art and Science invites viewers to watch as Donald Williams, Senior Furniture Conservator Emeritus of the Smithsonian’s [...]
Gregg Bordowitz lecture at Blaffer POSTPONED
This just in from the Blaffer Art Museum: “We are sorry to announce that Gregg Bordowitz’s presentation of Testing Some Beliefs has been postponed until [...]
San Antonio Künstlers Chosen for Berlin Residency
San Antonio artists Ricky Armendariz, Cathy Cunningham-Little, Karen Mahaffy and Vincent Valdez will be the first set of participants for the new Blue Star Art [...]
Laura Lark Loves You #7: Somethin’ Stupid
Sometimes I get comments here that remind me of a friend who recently threw a big party. The morning after, reaching for the Lysol kept [...]
Award-Winning Glasstire Editor Klaasmeyer Stepping Down
Kelly Klaasmeyer, editor of Glasstire for the past five years, has announced that she will be stepping down to pursue her own writing projects in [...]
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye…
As of February 8th, I am stepping down as editor of Glasstire to pursue other projects. Some are creative and include more writing, some are [...]
Trenton Doyle Hancock Wins $30,000 Greenfield Prize, Performing in Houston Thursday
Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has been named winner of the Greenfield Prize, awarded to a natinally recognized artist whose work is undergoing significant changes. [...]
Why It Will Be Difficult for Peter Doroshenko to Make Up for His “Stupid Mistake”
The website of Austin’s Flatbed Press is offering a limited edition aquatint by noted Texas artist Melissa Miller for $1,500. If, however, you were surfing [...]
New prints of classic films at the MFAH
Movie-lovers and image-makers should be extremely excited about the upcoming opportunity to see some of the best movies ever in the best way possible. In [...]
Thirty Seconds: Week of January 20
This week’s theme was: overwhelming. Many of the artworks and exhibitions I saw were so ambitious and large-scale that I felt consumed by the artist’s [...]
BFA Balk at Southwest School of Art
The Southwest School of Art in San Antonio has been forced to delay the start of its much-anticipated BFA program due to a procedural goof [...]
It’s Moving Day for Houston’s Third Ward Bike Shop
The Third Ward Bike Shop, the original program of Workshop Houston, begun ten years ago by social entrepreneurs Seth Capron, Katy Goodman, Benjamin Mason, and [...]
Everything AND the Kitchen Sink: Historic Houston Opens Its Warehouse for a One-Day Sell-A-Thon Sunday
Historic Houston, a nonprofit dedicated to the salvage and re-use of historic buildings and materials, will open it’s temporary storage warehouse at 4300 Harrisburg Road, [...]
Odd Intervals: Brent Fariss’ “Unitard”
Last Saturday night I went to a private residence in Travis Heights to see the New Music Co-op‘s performance of Brent Fariss‘ Unitard, a piece [...]
Sigrid Sandström at Inman Gallery
Sigrid Sandström’s abstract paintings on view at Inman Gallery are a dynamic mix of formal play and precision. Meticulously done in smooth layers of acrylic [...]
