Anish Kapoor Sues the National Rifle Association
Anish Kapoor, whose massive Cloud Column sculpture was very recently added to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s collection and outdoor campus, is suing the National...Read More
Top Five: June 21, 2018 with Megan Solis
Brandon Zech and special guest Megan Solis on the last show at Pump Project’s longtime Austin space, a San Antonio show of work you want to take home and hug, and a big group show in Fort Worth that’s worth the drive.
Third Annual Art Swap in Austin This Saturday
For the third year running, Austin non-profit Big Medium (which brings us the Texas Biennial, the Tito’s Prize, and the East Austin Studio Tour and...Read More
Party Pics: June 16 at Hardy & Nance Street Studios
The show: PRIDE Art Show The venue: Hardy & Nance Street Studios The city: Houston The date: June 16, 2018 Photographs by Maya Joubert
Glasstire Names Brandon Zech as News Editor
Glasstire is pleased to announce the appointment of Brandon Zech as News Editor. Over the past three years, Zech has served as the publication’s Assistant...Read More
MFAH Showcases Collection of Curator Clint Willour
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) recently opened an exhibition featuring artworks that Houston-based curator Clint Willour has collected and subsequently gifted to the museum...Read More
Help Make Art Happen: Fusebox Festival is Hiring!
Fusebox Festival, the Austin-based non-profit organization that annually produces a large-scale art and performance festival by the same name, announced this week that it is hiring...Read More
Houston Artist Dixie Friend Gay Wins National Award for Public Art
Earlier today, at its annual convention in Denver, the organization Americans for the Arts announced that this year it honors Houston artist Dixie Friend Gay for her...Read More
Plan a Trip! Project Row Houses to Lead Smithsonian Tour in D.C. This Summer
Project Row Houses in Houston is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and part of that year-round celebration includes PRH’s trip to Washington D.C. in...Read More
This and That: Kanye West and Robert Irwin
“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: austere architectural spaces Above: two renderings of Kanye West’s YEEZY Home, conceptualized as pre-fab, concrete,...Read More
Top Five Father’s Day Edition: June 14, 2018
For this special edition of Glasstire’s Top Five, Rainey Knudson and her dad Tom run down the top Texas places to take your dad (or the dad in your life) this Father’s Day.
Updated: Houston Collector Bill Hill Dies
Houston collector William J. “Bill” Hill died on Tuesday, June 12, 2018 from a heart attack after a long illness. Hill was a legendary, irascible...Read More
The Menil Announces Reopening Date
The Menil Collection in Houston closed its main building in February of this year for needed updates and renovations, and today announced its reopening date: September 22,...Read More
Shelby David Meier’s ‘Omellete Bar’
The entire thing felt as though it was happening in slow motion inside a big submarine.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Announces 2018-2019 Resident Artists
The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) recently announced the nine artists who will participate in the 2018-2019 round of its residency program. Open nationally to...Read More
Printed Matter Takes Over San Antonio’s Blue Star Arts Complex
Today, June 9, 2018, marks the fourth annual happening of Paper Trail, an event designed to highlight paper-based art, design, and printed media. From 11am to...Read More
New Open Call for Moving Image Programs to be Screened in Huntsville
Lease Agreement is a “nomadic” curatorial project based in Huntsville run by Adam Farcus (it’s a continuation of space Farcus co-ran in Baltimore from 2013-2015),...Read More
DiverseWorks’ New Project Reaches Out to Alief Community
This week, Houston arts organization DiverseWorks announced its newest program, Project Freeway. Developed with the sprawl of Houston in mind, (and named for the abundance of...Read More
Top Five: June 7, 2018
Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on a new Houston space in an unlikely spot, an especially charming nostalgia trip in San Antonio, and an excellent reason to walk into Juárez from El Paso.
A Non-Republican Could Win a Statewide Office in TX for the First Time in Nearly 25 Years
The last time a politician who was not a member of the Republican Party won a statewide race in Texas was in 1994, making Texas...Read More
