City of Sacramento Hires Ex-HAA CEO Jonathon Glus
Last week, amongst a flurry of announcements on new arts projects, Sacramento’s Mayor Darrell Steinberg announced the hiring of Jonathon Glus to lead the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts...Read More
Happy Juneteenth!
Although President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, the freeing of slaves was neither encouraged nor enforced in Texas until June...Read More
“Speak of the Devil” at Art League Houston
Short video of Edward Kelley’s security camera installation Speak of the Devil at Art League Houston.
Benjamin Terry at Art League Houston
Thingness, the title of Dallas artist Benjamin Terry’s solo show at Art League Houston, refers to objective reality. A thing is a thing if it exists...Read More
As Moths to the Light: Pipilotti Rist at the MFAH
In 1965, the Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson published the first images of fetuses inside the womb. The photographs were a sensation, appearing on the cover...Read More
Blanton Receives Gift of 83 Spanish Colonial Artworks
The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin recently announced that it will receive 83 artworks from The Colección Patricia Phelps de...Read More
Not A Hobby: Tommy Gregory
The seventh episode of Not A Hobby features Houston artist Tommy Gregory. As a sculptor and curator, he is a relentless advocate for having the public engage with art....Read More
Your Guide to Juneteenth in Texas
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in Texas,...Read More
Houston Puts the Fun Into Recycling
The City of Houston just unveiled its 7th recycling truck designed by an artist: Wet Cement, by Iva Kinnaird, is a truck wrapped in images of...Read More
CAMH versus MFAH Contemporary
Houston Public Media’s Jen Rice put out a radio news spot yesterday, interviewing Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) Director Gary Tinterow, Contemporary Arts Museum...Read More
Luther Smith and Jason Lee in Fort Worth
Photographers Luther Smith and Jason Lee are showing in Fort Worth at William Campbell Contemporary Art and Artspace111, respectively. Smith is local and Lee is not, though...Read More
TX Art Writers: Gulf Coast Wants to Give You Money
Gulf Coast, the University of Houston’s literary journal, recently announced The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing, a new award named in honor of the...Read More
Eight Months with No Menil Collection!
Go see it now! Houston’s Menil Collection is going to shut its doors for eight whole months while its floors are sanded and refinished, reports...Read More
Top Five: June 15, 2017 with Robert Hodge & Tierney Malone
Houston artists Tierney Malone and Robert Hodge join Glasstire’s Rainey Knudson in Galveston to count down the top shows in Texas this week. 1.1. Robert...Read More
The NEA Supports Glasstire!
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has approved a grant of $20,000 to support Glasstire in its second round of funding for FY 2017....Read More
Michael Menchaca at BLUEorange
Since January 20th, Houston has played host to a number of anti-Trump art exhibitions, many of which have been boisterous statements that begged for media...Read More
Toby Kamps Named New Director of Blaffer
Today Blaffer Art Museum and the University of Houston announced that Houston’s own Toby Kamps is named its new director at Blaffer, after a long international...Read More
The Power Station Announces New Residency and Inaugural Artists
The Power Station in Dallas has a new artist exchange residency program called PROXIMIDAD, which has two artists spending time in both Dallas and Guadalajara,...Read More
Adventures at the Kunst Bar
Artifex.ru, a Russian art advocacy group, released this silly but fun little video on social media earlier this year. It’s actually a nine-year-old animation by...Read More
Doug Aitken at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
I’ve seen Doug Aitken’s retrospective twice now—once in Los Angeles at MOCA last November, and once last Sunday at the Modern in Fort Worth. There’s...Read More
