Theaster Gates Named 2018 Nasher Prize Winner
Tonight the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas announced the winner of the 2018 Nasher Prize: acclaimed American artist Theaster Gates. The Nasher Prize, which is...Read More
Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Texas Artist of the Year Exhibition Relocated to Former Rice Gallery
This fall, the Art League Houston (ALH) was planning an ambitious retrospective of their 2017 Texas Artist of the Year, Trenton Doyle Hancock. The show was originally...Read More
Google Launches Huge Archive of Latino Art
On September 7, Google’s Cultural Institute went live with a massive archive of Latino history in the U.S. — it’s the biggest digital archive of U.S....Read More
This and That: Yes, They’re Men
“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Two Men Walk Into An Artwork This week The Yes Men are giving...Read More
John Biggers Mural in Houston Damaged by Hurricane Harvey
As Hurricane Harvey recedes into the distance, stories continue to emerge about the people and places affected by the Category 4 storm. The Houston Chronicle...Read More
3rd Annual Art Walk West is in Dallas Tomorrow
Art Walk West is in its third year now in Dallas and takes place tomorrow, Saturday Sept. 16. Presented by the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce,...Read More
New Books Celebrate Robyn O’Neil, Misty Keasler, and Walter Hopps
Earlier this year, artist and writer Anne Doran and New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman published The Dream Colony: A Life in Art, a book about the...Read More
Top Five: September 14, 2017
Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on a San Antonio super-connector, artists who pass as lobbyists, and Tom Sachs' return to Texas.
October is San Antonio’s Inaugural Museum Month
Museum Month San Antonio takes place for the first time in October of this year. It means that most of San Antonio’s most notable arts...Read More
Have You Found Your Doppelgänger In an Artwork Yet?
Some of us at Glasstire aren’t particularly prone to clicking through on the click-baity social media ads and lists and quizzes posted by friends. But...Read More
Disaster Recovery Workshop for the Arts This Saturday
Update: September 14, 3:15PM: This workshop has been cancelled due to a lack of enrollment. If you need help, please email the Houston Archives Collective. ...Read More
Richard Stout Exhibition at AMSET Rescheduled Due to Harvey
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) in Beaumont has announced that its fall exhibition of works by Houston-based and Beaumont-born artist Richard Stout will be postponed...Read More
These Artists Are Helping Harvey Victims (and They Need Volunteers)
In the aftermath of Harvey, a group of artists has banded together to help families affected by Hurricane Harvey. Artists Clear Houston, organized by the...Read More
The Idea Fund Applications Now Open
Applications are now open for the tenth round of The Idea Fund, a re-granting program funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and...Read More
Texas Contemporary Art Fair Will Not Be Held This Fall
We learned today that the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, which has been held in Houston since 2011, will not be happening this fall. Fair director...Read More
Rice Architecture Faculty Available to Discuss Storm’s Impact
In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, and as other areas of our national coastline await Hurricane Irma, Rice University in Houston has announced that members...Read More
A Weekly Art Project Returns in Houston
We are glad to see that Routine Fables, a yearlong project by the Houston artist Elaine Bradford and the poet Sara Cress, has returned after...Read More
Help Artists Affected by Harvey with these Upcoming Benefits & Art Auctions
Both this and next week, artists and organizations across the state of Texas are doing their part in putting together art shows and auctions that...Read More
Art vs. The Mexico Wall
As first reported in Mashable, the French artist JR (a.k.a. “The French Banksy”) has mounted a 30-foot tall image of a baby overlooking the fence...Read More
Retablo Pick Up Dates Announced for Lawndale’s Día de los Muertos
Lawndale Art Center has announced the date of their 30th Annual Día de los Muertos Retablo Exhibition: set to open on October 27 and close with...Read More
