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.

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Sterling Allen: Housing Edition

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts features the exhibition Housing Edition, a large-scale sculpture installation conceived by Sterling Allen during his residency at ArtPace. Together with eight [...]

Sterling Allen: Housing Edition

Six Sounds

More music! Warner Music Group and Arthouse showcases a multi-media event coinciding with SXSW, centered around Warner Music Group’s artists. The event features live performances [...]

Six Sounds

WHAT BY WHATEVER 2011

Organized by Domy and Yowie, the celebrity live chat site, to thumb their noses at the corporate megalith that SXSW has become (so there).

WHAT BY WHATEVER 2011

Orna Feinstein: PANTON NEMUS

Orna Feinstein showcases her new collection of 3D and kinetic monoprints and sculptures. Panton Nemus highlights and juxtaposes the organic and geometric in plants and [...]

Orna Feinstein: PANTON NEMUS

Magda Sayeg

International textile artist Magda Sayeg and knitters across Austin transform the Blanton Museum’s Faulkner Plaza into a large-scale, knitted wonderland. All 99 trees in the [...]

Magda Sayeg

Sarah Stevens: Palatial Hemorrhages

Comprised of a four week cycle of installation vignettes, Palatial Hemorrhages is an investigation of “incidental personal topographies; an earnest grandiosity amassed in the nature [...]

Sarah Stevens: Palatial Hemorrhages

Barry Stone: Hum

In the exhibition Hum, Stone culls photographs from various visits to his hometown of Spring, Texas, including images of the block he grew up on [...]

Barry Stone: Hum

The World According to New Orleans

As featured in our Spring Preview: “As with everything else New Orleansian, the art scene there is wholly unique from the rest of the country. [...]

The World According to New Orleans

Menil Community Arts Festival

This all day festival on the Menil “campus” will feature an indie book festival, a concert at the Rothko chapel and a family drum circle [...]

Menil Community Arts Festival

Truth and Transience: Michelle Samour

Translucent pulp drawings and circles of handmade paper are installed to suggest our society’s many viruses (from the literal and microscopic, to the metaphorical, mass [...]

Truth and Transience: Michelle Samour

Grand Relocation Celebration

d berman celebrates their new location in Wimberley with a group show of Ellen Berman, Malcolm Bucknall, Jeff Dell, Faith Gay, George Krause, Catherine Lee, [...]

Grand Relocation Celebration

Jon Langford: Skull Orchard Revisited

Yard Dog marks the release of “Skull Orchard Revisited,” a book of Langford‘s writings & paintings published by Verse Chorus Press, with this show of [...]

Jon Langford: Skull Orchard Revisited

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