British artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are known as much for their beautiful tessellated abstract paintings as their staunch defense of them. Their current [...]

Last month marked the one year anniversary of my heart transplant. This chapter, and indeed, this entire comic is dedicated to all the many people [...]

The Glasstire Drawing Project presents Chapter 2 of Michael Bise’s “Life On the List,” an autobiographical comic about life on the heart transplant list. For [...]

The Glasstire Drawing Project debuts with Chapter 1 of Michael Bise’s “Life On the List,” an autobiographical comic about life on the heart transplant list. [...]

There’s a person somewhere in Houston. They are healthy, just entering the prime of their life. They’ve left childhood but haven’t entered old age. They [...]

In the five years since the graduate school gates closed behind me with a tinny clatter (I’d like to say resounding clang, but really, it [...]

I come from a young family. I’ve been lucky enough to grow up with my mother’s parents playing a significant role in my life. When [...]

Marxist cultural theory could, arguably, be considered the defining feature of the intellectual movement of the contemporary art world. In the past 20 years, it [...]

Glasstire full disclosure: Art Guy Michael Galbreth is married to Glasstire’s founder and executive director, Rainey Knudson. Two years ago my little sister got married. [...]

Christopher Knight is an idiot. I recently read his blog post on the LA Times website in which he criticizes Michelle Obama and the White [...]

I went to my cardiologist the other day and, like many times before, she put a small receiver over the raised square area above my [...]

“If picante sauce commercials have taught us anything, and they have, it’s that Texans know the real spice when they taste it, and won’t hesitate [...]

A few weeks ago I asked Francesca Fuchs if she would be willing to sit down with me for an interview about her work. In [...]

The Top Ten Ghosts in My Studio This Christmas I’ve been thinking about ghosts and what it means to be haunted. I don’t know much [...]

I was born and raised in a radical, non-denominational church called The Message of the Hour Church. Its members believe that a man named William [...]

I moved to Houston from Denton for graduate school with a copy of Baudrillard’s Symbolic Exchange and Death under one arm, The Routledge Cultural Studies [...]

My favorite class in undergrad was a Northern Renaissance art class. It was taught by Dr. Scott Montgomery. Scott had long grey hair and wore [...]

The worst piece of art I’ve ever made is also one of the most important pieces of art I’ve ever made. It sits at the [...]