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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ROUND 34 Matter of FOOD

Curated by Ashley Clemmer Hoffman and Linda Shearer, with projects by Tarsha M. Gary, Michael Pribich, RootDown Htown, Toni Tipton-Martin & Luanne Stovall, Jorge Rojas, and [...]

ROUND 34 Matter of FOOD

Richie Budd: All I Have to Give

All I Have to Give is a series of the artist’s four extracted wisdom teeth showcased on individual pedestals.” Come ON, Richie, surely you have [...]

Richie Budd: All I Have to Give

Kara Walker Talks About Her Art

The MacArthur Genius grant winner comes to talk about her (sometimes controversial) work, as part of the Rice/Menil Biennial Lecture Series,The Risible Visual: Humor & [...]

Kara Walker Talks About Her Art

Michael Bise: Blood Poisoning

Michael Bise (of the fearlessly private drawings) is back with all new work. One of our favorite TX artists, and not just because he writes [...]

Michael Bise: Blood Poisoning

Chad Hopper and Amanda Jones: Chisel Story Rust

“In acrobatic acts of blind alchemy Austin art-farmers Chad Hopper and Amanda Jones mix wood whispers and plastic gossip. Animals take over abandoned office buildings, leading [...]

Chad Hopper and Amanda Jones: Chisel Story Rust

Beili Liu: The Mending Project

The Mending Project is an installation with an interactive performance by Beili Liu. Liu’s large format installation takes over Women & Their Work with hundreds [...]

Beili Liu: The Mending Project

Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph

Houston is the only U.S. venue for the first major retrospective devoted to Austrian photographer and scientist Heinrich Kühn. An important figure in the international [...]

Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph