This weekend will be a busy one for David Lynch fans. Not only is the Museum of Fine Arts Houston screening David Lynch: The Art Life, but the long-awaited Season 3…
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Have you ever traveled to dOCUMENTA and thought that there simply wasn’t enough dog-accessible art? Cue dOGUMENTA, an art show engineered specifically for our canine companions. Earlier this month, W Magazine announced…
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Last week the Dallas-based artist Colette Copeland sent someone at Glasstire a link to a video by an artist whose work was in a big overseas group show Copeland’s work…
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In conjunction with her exhibition “Future Tradition” (2017) at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, TX, Melissa Cody gave a short demonstration of her weaving technique.
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1. Artist/writer Ryan Estrada started the twitter account @forexposure_txt to share real quotations from real people who want artists to work for free. Some of the best lines (these are…
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Yesterday we published Arie Bouman’s interview with Leigh Arnold, curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center, about a show Arnold is working on about women and Land art. Although several women made significant…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Cornered ************* No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else is also…
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Having trouble sleeping? Sit back, relax, and listen to Jeff Bridges. “One of the things I like to do to relax is hum.” What follows is a 3-minute track that mixes…
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Kate Wagner, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Conservatory, started the blog McMansion Hell in July 2016 as an attempt to understand why McMansions are the way they are. Using humor and…
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Last year the Wichita Falls Museum of Art featured a show by the acclaimed American landscape photographer Frank Gohlke of his photographs of Wichita Falls in the aftermath of a…
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This is worth watching. RIP Glenn O’Brien. “A bad review… people have to get over the idea that people have power.”
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It was recently announced that this September, John Waters will be hosting an adults-only summer camp. Appropriately dubbed Camp John Waters, the weekend will feature “a John Waters One Man Show, Hairspray…
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The 2017 AIA Conference, presented by The American Institute of Architects, is upon us. From April 27th to 29th, architects and architecture enthusiasts will descend upon Orlando for what promises to…
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Here’s a clip of Sixto Wagan performing at CounterCurrent’s Ten Tiny Dances. Sixto Wagan performing at Ten Tiny Dances at #countercurrent17 @mitchell_center A post shared by Texas Visual Art (@glasstire) on…
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Sterling Allen, the Austin-based artist, co-founder of art collective Okay Mountain, and professor at Texas State University, unveiled some new work in an excellent group show up at Kirk Hopper…
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Nina Katchadourian’s current survey on view at the Blanton in Austin includes many of the artist’s well-known pieces that span the breadth of her practice. It was a treat, at…
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9 Reasons Why Texas Monthly’s “10 Texas Artists To Collect Now” is Rubbish
by Glasstireby GlasstireLast week Texas Monthly published an inoffensive little doodad titled “Ten Texas Artists to Collect Now.” We should know better than to let these kind of things drive us crazy, but sometimes…
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This piece is in the small, dark bank vault of Beefhaus in Fair Park. The solo show is by Dallas-based Shelby David Meier. (When a sculpture plays a comedy club.) Shelby David…
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After an election that has thrust the populist forces in America to the foreground and widened the gap between rural and urban cities, “S-Town“, from the creators of “Serial” and…
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Cristiano Ronaldo is a man known for two things: his talent, and his good looks. A star player for the Spanish soccer team Real Madrid, Ronaldo, who was born in Portugal’s Madeira…