This and That: Ellsworth Kelly and a Tex-Mex Restaurant
“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: stained glass Above: interior views of El Tiempo Cantina, a Tex-Mex restaurant on Navigation...Read More
Top Five: May 31, 2018
Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on the beauty of a simple video edit, a rare cross-pollination between Houston and Dallas art collectives, and an artist making your brunch this coming Sunday… down in a hole.
Top Five: March 15, 2018
Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a Houston show named after the street it’s on (Moonmist!), a Panhandle show that requires a magnifying glass, and the undeniable charge of 1930s-era Picasso.
Top Five: February 15, 2018 with Julie Kinzelman
Rainey Knudson and guest host Julie Kinzelman on the lure of Looney Tunes, the opening of Ellsworth Kelly's Austin, and the shock of cultural acclimation.
Blanton Announces Its First Sound-Artist Resident
This past summer Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art announced that it was launching a new residency offering emerging artists the opportunity to create a sound-based artwork to...Read More
Remember Day without Art?
The Visual AIDS website describes Day without Art’s history: In 1989, in response to the worsening AIDS crisis and coinciding with the World Health Organization’s...Read More
Blanton Museum of Art Hires Two Curators
The University of Texas’ Blanton Museum of Art has hired two new curators, reports the Austin-based publication Sightlines. The institution has brought on Holly Borham as Assistant Curator...Read More
Hubbard / Birchler in Conversation This Thursday in Austin
This coming Thursday, Sept. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler will be in...Read More
Top Five: August 3, 2017 with Deborah Roberts
Brandon Zech and special guest Deborah Roberts are in Austin discussing a grand artistic rivalry, a political artist on the rise, and an artist with an unlikely background.
The Top Five Artist Residencies in Texas: July 27, 2017
Special Edition: Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on the top five artist residencies in Texas.
Austin’s Blanton Museum Launches Music Residency Program
Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art recently announced that they are starting a new residency offering emerging artists the opportunity to create a sound-based artwork to be...Read More
Blanton Museum Acquires Vincent Valdez’s Large-Scale ‘The City’ Paintings
This week, the University of Texas’ Blanton Museum of Art told Glasstire that they have acquired Vincent Valdez’s large-scale paintings The City I and The City II. These pieces...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
On Nina Katchadourian: A Conversation
Glasstire's Christina Rees and Brandon Zech talk about Nina Katchadourian's solo show at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin.
Sexy Farrah Fawcett Made Art, Too!
Austin’s Umlauf Sculpture Garden is currently hosting the exhibit Mentoring a Muse: Charles Umlauf & Farrah Fawcett. The show focuses on the long-standing relationship between...Read More
The Bigger the Better: Billboard Art
Sometimes museums use billboards to advertise art, and sometimes billboards are the art:
Top Five: March 16, 2017
Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on what to see over Spring Break, whether there are any bands left at SXSW, and naked people at the museum.
Austin’s Renovated Blanton Museum is Finally Open!
Today marks the reopening of the permanent collection galleries in UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art. Closed for the past year, museum workers have been busily...Read More
Spring Preview 2017
Spring Preview! Rainey Knudson, Brandon Zech, and Christina Rees run down our top picks in Texas for the coming months.
Blanton Docent Raises Funds to Add African American Art to the Collection
Businesswoman Marilyn Johnson moved to Austin in the 1990s and became a docent at the Blanton Museum of Art in 2012. When she visited the...Read More
