Thimbles
“What is the name of that landscape painter. You know the one I’m talking about; the one who painted atmosphere like uh…like Corot. If I [...]
Twenty Questions: David McGee’s Favorite Work of Art
Houston’s David McGee was the the first artist put on the spot in a new Glasstire video series by John Carrithers. Carrithers asks each of [...]
Yinka Shonibare MBE at the Fort Worth Modern
Currently on exhibit at the Fort Worth Modern is a focus exhibition on the work of Nigerian/British artist Yinka Shonibare. Shonibare’s work is usually categorized [...]
Orange Show Adopts 70-Foot Blue Saxophone: Long-time Richmond Avenue Icon Moving to Houston’s East End Today!
The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has acquired Bob Wade’s “Smokesax,” the much-beloved 70’ tall blue saxophone that for the past 20 years has [...]
Wood Works
Cloaked in blue tarps, the wood piles behind our house shrink daily as we burn the stuff to stay warm. There is one—our shelter-magazine [...]
Texas Biennial Announces a Clean Well-Lighted (and Free!) Place at SXSW, Last Call for Biennial Artists
The organizers of the Texas Biennial have announced a series of free public readings in a street-level storefront on Congress Ave. in Austin, amid the [...]
Art Guys Dust Off Suitcase Wheel for San Antonio Airport
Suitcase Wheel by Houston’s Art Guys was installed Friday at the San Antonio International Airport (where else?). A project of Public Art San Antonio (PASA), [...]
Anthony Palasota, Omnipresent Fixture on the Houston Gallery Scene, Has Died
Anthony Palasota, tireless Houston arts supporter, has died after a brief illness. Familiar to everyone as a fixture at Houston openings, for years Palasota religiously [...]
Ducks in a Row: US News Ranks Texas Art Grad Schools
US News and World Report‘s new rankings for Graduate School of art and Design are out. Selected by polling deans and other academics in 2012, [...]
Dallas Blog Magnet: Robert Boyd Tools Around, Sees Some Stuff, and Tells All
Like Glasstire blogger Leslie Castro, non-Glasstire blogger Robert Boyd recently took a rambling trip through Dallas. Though he formed no conclusions, he saw a lot [...]
Glass Houses 26: Jonathan Leach
The original “TRON” movie, PC gaming in the early ‘90s and the struggles of high school geometry came to mind when I first saw Houston [...]
“Stuffed”: Hillerbrand + Magsamen at Brand 10 + andX
I have a longstanding daydream that my house will burn down. I’d pull in the driveway one day to a pile of smoldering cinders that [...]
“Progress of Love” at The Menil Collection
The Progress of Love at the Menil Collection is an ambitious group exhibition that takes on the broad topics of love and African contemporary art [...]
What Could You Do With 7000 Square Feet in West Oaks Mall?
We Open Art Houses (WOAH), Sharsten Plenge’s art-venue-in-a-shopping-mall project in west Houston, is looking for tenants for it’s “affordable, project-ready space” at its new West [...]
Caroline Plantation
Years ago, an artist and I were discussing humor as a device in art. I expressed the opinion that, while there seemed to be a [...]
Occupy LMFA: Artist Puts Himself on Display in Month-Long Live-In Exhibition in Longview
Artist Charles Arnold will move into and occupy the front window of the Longview Museum of Fine Arts for the entire month of March. According [...]
Frida Kahlo’s Back in Austin, Catch Her While You Can
Frida Kahlo’s Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird returned to UT’s Harry Ransom Center on February 14. The homecoming of one of the center’s most [...]
New Eleanor Friedberger 7-inch record (that’s vinyl!) from Ballroom Marfa
When Eleanor Friedberger drove from Austin to the Big Bend for a residency at Ballroom Marfa, she ended up sick on her first night, but [...]
Interview: Stephanie Barron, Curator of “Ken Price Sculpture” at the Nasher
As senior curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Stephanie Barron catalyzed the Nasher Sculpture Center’s current exhibition, [...]
Otis Ike/Joanna’s First Mardi Gras at Numbers Revealed
In case you’re curious, Otis Ike has posted a photo album of theotis Ike/ Joanna’s recent Mardi Gras at Numbers with Christeene on his website. [...]
