Houston artist Beth Secor recalls her first taste of artistic fame: “My  father said,”Hey gordy! Come on over here- it looks just like you!”

Houston Artist David McGee wishes artists felt less dependent on accpetance by institutions and audiences as a measure their success.

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 [...]

  Saturday, 4 pm Lawndale Artist in Residence Domokos Benczedi (right) is asked to lower the volume on his unscheduled art fair performance by fair [...]

In conjunction with the fabulous Lawndale Art Center, Glasstire presents the Lawndale/Glasstire Barfly series at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair.  The Barfly series brings together [...]

Chad Maydwell‘s “music visualization” video Rêverie – Claude Debussy was one of the standouts in the 2012 Lawndale Big Show. Here’s his newest stop motion animation,  [...]

Wherever we go in Texas, we always make time for the museum gift shops. Our museum shops reliably have some of the most fun, unique [...]

Last week we ran a Mad Lib contest during the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, promising fame and free Glasstire t-shirts to our winners. And here [...]

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 [...]

Glasstire readers did themselves proud in our Best and Worst of the Houston Fine Art Fair Contest. They hunted down art they liked and art [...]

Hey Houston art fans: we’re having a contest for the Best and the Worst art in the Houston Fine Art Fair. Send your images and [...]

Glasstire audio slide show profiling Michael Bise. The artist talks about drawing from old movies, Disney vs. religion and why art should be hard.  

Glasstire audio slide show profiling Rachel Hecker. The artist discusses her ephemera paintings as well as her current series of Jesus portraits – and explains [...]

Glasstire audio slideshow profiling sculptor, dancer, performer and seamster Daniel Adame. Photographs by Will van Overbeek.

What is it? The 2011 Glasstire Virtual Residency is a $2000 award toward the production of a web-based art project. The artist will retain all [...]

On Saturday, May 7th, 2011, Glasstire and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presented a panel in celebration of our 10th anniversary. “Regionalism in [...]

Kaneem Smith: Glasstire.com Artist Profile from Eric Jarvis on Vimeo.

Mark Schatz: Glasstire.com Artist Profile from Eric Jarvis on Vimeo.

What with the piles of shoddy painting clogging many art venues these days, it is a relief to see Darren Waterston’s current exhibit at Inman Gallery. [...]

The tagline says it all: "i love performance art, so i am going to vomit it all over you, while masturbating, covered in sugar." Every [...]