Author: Rainey Knudson

Rainey Knudson is the founder and director of Glasstire. After working on a print magazine about Texas art, Knudson launched Glasstire in 2001 as one of the earliest web-only arts journals in the country. Since then, she has built the organization into a regional arts journalism leader that launched a second site, in Southern California, in 2012. She has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has an undergraduate degree in literature from Rice University and an MBA in entrepreneurship from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Houston.

Posts

Jim Nolan: Today is Tomorrow

Critics’ darling Nolan is back with speakers, exposed wiring, chipboard and other “discarded cultural artifacts and everyday materials.”

Jim Nolan: Today is Tomorrow

The Blue Yonder

In collaboration with regional air museums, The Blue Yonder highlights the aesthetics of flight through various artifacts and the work of artists inspired by them.

The Blue Yonder

Fear & Loathing

Check out works by Rosemary Cantu, Sonya Berg, Jorge Javier Lopez, and Justin Varner in K Space Contemporary’s new exhibition Fear & Loathing. This exhibition features [...]

Fear & Loathing

The Long Table of Love

We typically don’t post fundraisers (except our own, which we flog shamelessly), but this one in support of Casa Chuck deserves mention. The home of [...]

The Long Table of Love

Art in the Garden

Celebrating Contemporary Art Month, the 2011 Art in the Garden installation features artists from The Texas Sculptors Group and is curated by Lilly Wei. The [...]

Art in the Garden

Wesley Harvey: kissed again

Three Walls presents an exhibition by San Antonio artist Wesley Harvey entitled kissed again. Harvey continues his investigation of collage on ceramics by appropriating homoerotic [...]

Wesley Harvey: kissed again

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Exhibition

Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA) celebrates the seventeenth-century feminist poet and playwright, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The exhibition features works [...]

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Exhibition

ART BIKE 2011

The National MS Society: Lone Star unveils ART BIKE 2011, a month-long art installation of fifteen uniquely-designed bicycles created by Houston artists. Art Bike artists [...]

ART BIKE 2011

Bill Komodore: Fractured Myth

Redbud Gallery presents Fractured Myth, an exhibition of paintings by Dallas artist Bill Komodore, a Professor of Art at SMU since 1989. Some of the [...]

Bill Komodore: Fractured Myth

James Johnson and Erika Pochybova Johnson

The Johnsons are showing approximately 75 paintings, drawings and more at G Gallery. Lubbock legend/irascible character James has shown in Houston over 20 years and [...]

James Johnson and Erika Pochybova Johnson

Kelly Moran: American Dreamer

Kelly Moran exhibits inkjet, collage and lino cut prints in the exhibition American Dreamer. Moran uses found and altered vintage, cartoon-like images, mostly of male [...]

Kelly Moran: American Dreamer

The Whole World Was Watching

The Menil Collection presents The Whole World Was Watching, a selection of works from a gift of more than 200 Civil Rights-era photographs from Edmund [...]

The Whole World Was Watching

Dodransbicentennial + Patrick Turk

Koelsch Gallery presents a group show featuring Texas-themed art. The line-up includes Camp Bosworth (exhibiting a carved wooden sculpture of a gun that folds out [...]

Dodransbicentennial + Patrick Turk