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Recently I had a chance to talk with Nina Hassele, director of Contemporary Art Month (CAM), and CAM Board Member Leigh Baldwin; both told me [...]

Picasso Black and White has all the ingredients of a blockbuster exhibition. The featured artworks are historically significant examples from the best known periods of [...]

Glasstire distance educator and motivational speaker Cody Ledvina tells it like it is in Lesson 1.1 of his Pedagogical DVD.  Feel free to use this [...]

I’d rather not point fingers at specific artists, but I am concerned that there is a lack in much of contemporary art of what I [...]

Art-chitects Daniel Mihalyo and Annie Han of Lead Pencil Studio discuss their building-in-a-gallery project at UT’s Visual Arts Center’s Vaulted Gallery in a new promo [...]

“It is hoped and anticipated that this simple act of driving through different parts of the city will bring about a greater awareness to the [...]

Alan Reid was one of my first students when I arrived to teach at the University of North Texas.  Since he graduated, many years ago, [...]

On Tuesday, February 26, beginning at 7 a.m., The Art Guys walked the 29.6 miles of Little York Road, the longest street in Houston. Otis [...]

In light of Houston’s apparent difficulty with the nexus of trees and art, it was refreshing to attend a timely and thought-provoking performance-art event involving [...]

Houston Artist David McGee wishes artists felt less dependent on accpetance by institutions and audiences as a measure their success.

I recently had the chance to get into the studio of artist and friend Michael Anthony García. Our conversation about his most recent work for [...]

“What is the name of that landscape painter.  You know the one I’m talking about; the one who painted atmosphere like uh…like Corot.  If I [...]

  Cloaked in blue tarps, the wood piles behind our house shrink daily as we burn the stuff to stay warm. There is one—our shelter-magazine [...]

The original “TRON” movie, PC gaming in the early ‘90s and the struggles of high school geometry came to mind when I first saw Houston [...]

I have a longstanding daydream that my house will burn down. I’d pull in the driveway one day to a pile of smoldering cinders that [...]

Years ago, an artist and I were discussing humor as a device in art. I expressed the opinion that, while there seemed to be a [...]

In what feels like a direct answer to detractors of Dallas’ very centralized and compacted (and rarified) still-new Arts District, the Nasher Sculpture Center has [...]

Glasstire asked Houston artist Beth Secor to talk about her current show at Inman Gallery, and she tells how drawings of Texas trees are tangled [...]

Over the weekend I had the amazing pleasure of visiting Dallas. Yes, that’s right, pleasure! Aside from the major Dallas institutions, I was fairly ignorant [...]

Carl Hammoud’s current exhibition of paintings and drawings at Lora Reynolds Gallery feels cool and empty. The works are also nearly impeccably installed. I recently [...]