The Ten List

“Walking, in particular drifting, or strolling, is already – with the speed culture of our time – a kind of resistance…a very immediate method for unfolding [...]

It’s the All Star break, a time when the very best professional baseball players have to travel for work and the rest get a four-day [...]

Not unlike Texas, Los Angeles suffers from some art world stereotypes. In honor of our recently launched Southern California site, Glasstire SoCal, we present Los [...]

In honor of the FotoFest 2012 Biennial, we’re republishing this 2008 classic from the inimitable Clint Willour… Just in in time for FotoFest‘s Meeting Place, [...]

September 10 will mark the one year anniversary of Douglas Britt’s notorious and fantastic e-mail (which made Gawker!) “Houston Chronicle art coverage in the post-Preview [...]

In terms of size, concrete and consumer culture, Houston is a hyperbole of a city. Every time I return to it from another place I [...]

  In a 2006 interview with Nancy Spector, Marina Abramović told the story of a Tibetan devotional tradition in which a worshipper uses a mold [...]

From January 13 to February 4, 2011, a table of patrons in the second-floor cafeteria of the Museum of Modern Art ate the exact same [...]

Houston has often been fertile ground for some off-the-grid artist projects. This year we’ve seen a slew of artists using Houston as their playground to [...]

Teaching art is a bizarre task. I have been working with students at the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North [...]

Maybe you watched the reality TV show “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.” Maybe you enjoyed it, or maybe you want Bravo to give [...]

Since the recent proliferation of the Art Fair (Art Basel Miami Beach opened its doors in 2002, and Frieze set up shop in 2003), we [...]

On October 19, 2009, performance artists, The Yes Men, held a fake US Chamber of Commerce press conference at The National Press Club. A small [...]

For those of you who are just starting out as artists, the opening night reception of your exhibition can be a bit daunting. What do [...]

TEN THINGS ABOUT BEING A FRENCH ARTIST IN HOUSTON Best or worst, it all depends on the observer. And in no particular order: • If [...]

Recently, the critic, theorist and sometime curator David Hickey wrote in his essay Orphans, "…three decades of art theory and art history have destroyed our [...]

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 [...]

The history of contemporary art is filled with countless outrageous and provocative ideas. Think of Nikki de St. Phalle building walk-in wombs, Chris Burden taking [...]

The contemporary art market is hot right now and filled with speculation. Trends come and go and values rise and fall, but ultimately, you have [...]

Here’s ten, er, thirteen Tips for Commissioning Site-Specific Installations from Kim Davenport, director of Rice Gallery. In her more than ten years running the all-installation [...]