UH Public Art Launches Temporary Public Art Program & Names New Director & Chief Curator
The University of Houston (UH) has announced that, under its newly developed strategic plan, it has named María C. Gaztambide as director and chief curator of...Read More
Fort Worth Modern Announces Fall 2018 Tuesday Evening Lectures
Glasstire has long been a fan of The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s programming (in 2011, we celebrated our 10th anniversary with a panel...Read More
Lawndale Art Center & Nick Barbee Announce New Art Lending Library
The Lawndale Art Center in Houston has announced that it is partnering with Galveston-based artist Nick Barbee to create the Lawndale Lending Library, an art library that...Read More
Lubbock City Eternal: Eric Simpson and Caleb Lightfoot
Lubbock City Eternal opened at the Charles Adams Studio Projects (CASP) 5&J Gallery in Lubbock this month. CASP resident Eric Simpson daylights on his family...Read More
Open Call for the 2018 Glasstire Art Writing Prize
Ed. note: Glasstire recently announced its new art writing prize, a competitive award designed to highlight emerging arts writers in Texas. This is the open call...Read More
Party Pics: August 11 at Project Row Houses
The show: Summer Studios 2018 The venue: Project Row Houses The city: Houston The date: August 11, 2018 Photographs by Maya Joubert ...Read More
Top Five: August 16, 2018
Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on the last summer shows you can catch in Texas, which means group shows galore, and a few unexpected solo...Read More
Zine Fest Houston Opens 2018 Registration; Announces New Grant in Memory of Shane Patrick Boyle
Today, Zine Fest Houston (ZFH) opened registration for its 2018 event, set to take place on Saturday, November 17th from 12-6PM at Lawndale Art Center...Read More
The Rambling Boy: On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of HemisFair
‘The Rambling Boy’ is a column written by Lonn Taylor for The Big Bend Sentinel, a newspaper based in Marfa, Texas. You can find and...Read More
Idea Fund Returns, Apply Now!
It’s that Idea Fund time of year again. Houston area (Harris, Galveston, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Waller, Chambers, Liberty, or Montgomery County) artists are eligible. The...Read More
Sand Mandala Painting Returns to Houston this Week
This week, beginning on Thursday, August 16th, Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery, a center in Atlanta, Georgia dedicated to preserving Tibetan culture, will...Read More
Why We Need Art Writers Now (More Than Ever)
The first piece of published writing I was paid for was for a set of capsule reviews of television shows. It was the mid-1990s, for...Read More
Day for Night Founder Omar Afra Accused of Sexual Misconduct; Steps Down from Festival & Free Press Houston
This weekend, several women released statements on social media accusing Day for Night’s founder Omar Afra of sexual misconduct and assault. Two of the individuals who...Read More
From the Page to the Street: Latin American Conceptual Art at the Blanton
“The artist will not teach us to see with his picture but with his finger,” wrote Argentine artist Alberto Greco in 1962. “He will teach...Read More
At the Mouth of the West: A Recent Trip Through Midland-Odessa
I had never visited Midland-Odessa until a week ago, but that region looms large in the iconography of Texas. Anytime a movie wants to establish...Read More
New Mural Celebrates Harvey Heroes in Westchase District
On Thursday, August 16, a new mural in Houston will be unveiled in the Westchase District: It’s titled Harvey Heroes, and it’s by Houston-based artist Larry Crawford....Read More
Artists and Writers: Open Call for Rhizome’s Annual Microgrants
Rhizome, the international non-profit “that supports and provides a platform for new media art,” has opened its annual call for its microgrants, a program it...Read More
“Have you found your place in the world?” An Interview with Pierre Krause On Sloganeering
When I travel from my home, no matter how close I stay to my North Texas environs (sometimes this even includes bus stops in my...Read More
Art Center of Waco Announces New Director
The Art Center of Waco (ACW) has announced that former Program Director Claire Sexton is the new director of the museum. Outgoing Director Meg Gilbert...Read More
Satellite Art Show Will Come to Austin During SXSW 2019
The Satellite Art Show, an art fair aimed at fostering the careers of young dealers, artists, non-profits and artist-run spaces, has told Glasstire that it will make...Read More
