Architect and artist Doug Michels, perhaps best known as a member of the artist collective Ant Farm, died last Thursday in Australia while on a whale-viewing trip. Among other projects,…
Rainey Knudson
Rainey Knudson
Rainey Knudson founded Glasstire in 2001 as one of the earliest web-only arts journals in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher, ending an 18-year run at the helm of the publication. A frequent public speaker, she has given talks about online communications and the role of the critic at numerous universities and museums.
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But the scuttlebutt is that Ted Pillsbury (who recently left Pillsbury Peters gallery in Dallas) will probably end up in his own backyard, at SMU’s Meadows Museum. That institution could…
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Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas is now representing the great Mel Ziegler!
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The latest issue of the SlopArt catalog is fantastic, as is the website. THIS is art shopping the way we like it!!!
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The Dallas Museum of Art has just been given Matthew Barney’s sculpture The Cloud Club (which “relates to” the artist’s film Cremaster 3, and which involves a sawed-in-half piano resting…
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The Dallas Museum of Art has just been given Matthew Barney’s sculpture The Cloud Club (which “relates to” the artist’s film Cremaster 3, and which involves a sawed-in-half piano resting…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is pushing hard its show of works from the Museum of Modern Art, and deservedly so. MoMA arguably has the best collection of 20th…
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Congratulations to Houston’s Mixture Contemporary Art, which recently had a nice debut at the Stray Show in Chicago, and was invited to the ARCO fair in Madrid next February. Way…
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Are we just too crusted with scepticism? Super Happy Fun Land seems too weird not to be an ironic joke.
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Are we just too crusted with skepticism? Super Happy Fun Land seems too earnest not to be an ironic joke.
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Austin artist Tré Arens died unexpectedly in her sleep from a brain aneurysm the morning of May 8th. This from her obituary in the Austin American-Statesman: “If only she were…
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Save the date for the annual West Texas Hoodown in fun-filled Marfa, TX! October 10-12 are the days for this year’s art fête at Chinati.
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Renoir and Algeria explores the Impressionist’s fascination with North Africa, coming June 8 to the Dallas Museum of Art.
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Save the date for the annual West Texas hoo-down in fun-filled Marfa, TX! October 10-12 are the days for this year’s art fête at Chinati.
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Congratulations to Santiago Cucullu, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Robyn O’Neil, Sigrid Sandstrom & Brent Steen, each the big winner of a $20,000 grant, sponsored by Artadia!
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Livefeed, an installation by the artists Jeff Shore and John Fisher on view at Houston’s Mixture Gallery, is a fairly complicated installation that combines narrative storytelling, abstract three-dimensional objects, and…
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If you were to stand at the corner of Montrose and Bissonnet, you could literally throw a stone and hit four of the five winners of the recent Artadia grants.…
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Frederick Jackson Turner believed our American sense of manifest destiny was shaped by the frontier; and such is true within Texas, even today. It’s a big place. It’s dorky even…
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Dave Hickey is right: beauty counts. No matter how important a statement art makes, first and foremost, it has to be visually compelling. Only then do you need to decide…
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Lately there’s been a lot of excitement about the great art community in San Antonio, and a polite silence on what is perceived as the cricket noises emanating from Austin.…