Seth Alverson’s show at Art Palace is getting all kinds of great coverage and with good reason. Alverson’s an amazing painter, producing evocative “realist” work [...]

Kelly Klaasmeyer is the editor of Glasstire. An artist and writer, she was selected as a Fellow for the 2009 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program and was the recipient of a 2009 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She lives in Houston for the fresh air and Alpine scenery.
Seth Alverson’s show at Art Palace is getting all kinds of great coverage and with good reason. Alverson’s an amazing painter, producing evocative “realist” work [...]

Yes, it’s a 1000 degrees outside but if you can just make it through the parking lot, these Houston spaces have great air conditioning – [...]

In Luc Tuymans’ 1997 painting Der Architekt, a man wearing skis has fallen in the snow. Almost monochromatic, the image is rendered in frosty blues [...]

When Emma Tamburlini was eleven, “her father ordered her to strip naked so that he could make a film about her growing breasts,” an article [...]

A couple weeks ago I received an email with this subject line: “Judd Foundation announces online access to Donald Judd’s 13,004-book personal library in Marfa, [...]

“Why is China Chow wearing my 1984 prom dress?!?!” was my first thought when I tuned into Bravo’s “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” [...]

Where’s Maurizio? might be a more appropriate title for the Maurizio Cattelan exhibition at the Menil Collection. For the show, the Italian artist worked with [...]

“Bless Their Hearts” visited New York a couple weeks ago and checked out some shows. The 2010 Whitney Biennial closes at the end of [...]

Bless her heart, that Laurel Nakadate just can’t help herself. She’s just cute as a button and old, weird guys flock to her. What’s a [...]

This Saturday, March 13th, is the last day for the University of Houston student show at the Blaffer Gallery. It’s worth running by to see [...]

A cautionary tale for anyone given to impulse buys on the high seas. Park West Gallery auctions art on Royal Caribbean and other cruise lines. [...]

In our poll we asked Glasstire readers “How can the Obama administration best help the arts?” Among various options, “Launch WPA-style arts projects” came in [...]

Artist Mary Coble was lying face down on a table in the Conner Contemporary Art booth at the Pulse Fair in New York. A tattoo [...]

In art, there are all kinds of things you should read, like that dusty copy of Baudrillard sitting on your nightstand. Unfortunately there are no [...]

Houston has light rail! Does that mean we are now one those urban wonderlands where carless-ness doesn’t mean a life of martyrdom?





