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Glasstire is pleased to announce that we are seeking to add a News Editor to our team!
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During her 18 years at the helm, Knudson has shaped Glasstire into an important resource and connective tissue for the statewide Texas art scene.
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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. That’s great news for Texas…
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This coming weekend will be the fifth edition of the Texas Contemporary art fair at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. This year’s iteration features a number of galleries…
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Glasstire is looking for arts writers in Texas! Any level of experience or geographic location is welcome. To apply, please submit one UNEDITED piece of your writing from the…
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Video: Dave Hickey, part 3: Administrated Art History
by Glasstireby GlasstireIn which Dave bemoans the administration of art history, the permanent reign of postminimalism, and bad social-content art. Heckler at 14:50!
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Ed Cooper died unexpectedly early this week after an accidental fall in his home. He was 61. A wealth manager with LPL Financial by day, Cooper was an enthusiastic and…
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It's a 1600-mile weekend, too many things to see them all unless you're 2.5 people. I'm spending my weekend in Houston, tending the Glasstire booth at the best ever TX Contemporary Art Fair.
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The Texas Biennial's Greatest Hits show opened yesterday at Big Medium in Austin. Glasstire was there, and If you were watching our Instagram feed last night, this is what you would have seen.
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Videographer John Carrithers asks Houston artist Emily Sloan what she would be doing if she weren’t an artist: “One thing I almost did was social work. I felt like art…
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Houston artist David McGee recalls an encounter with a Picasso impersonator on TV for videographer John Carrithers.
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Kelly Klaasmeyer, editor of Glasstire for the past five years, has announced that she will be stepping down to pursue her own writing projects in early February. Klaasmeyer has overseen…
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The proposed big wheel/Aztec calendar design for a new Mexic-Arte Museum building on congress Ave. in Austin by Fernando Romero was part of the architect’s “You are the Context” exhibition…
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Last night’s inaugural Glasstire Texas Auction raised over $100,000 for Glasstire and Texas artists! Net proceeds were reportedly 90% higher than the old, silent-auction-and-outrageous-but-expensive-party style gala. Over $26,000 of the…
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Loading dock doors open this morning at 8am at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center to admit the soon-to-be-fevered installation crews for the second Texas Contemporary Art Fair. In addition…
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Artnet magazine, the 16-year old online art magazine, ceased publication Monday. The widely-read magazine, which carried the words of Charlie Finch and republished Jerry Salz, was closed by Artnet, whose…
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There’s been a grave interruption in my tour reporting, I realize. Rigoberto Gonzalez Facebooked me thusly the other day: WTF? (I’m paraphrasing). Here’s what happened: from January through May, I amassed…
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The Chupacabrona Tour, Part 2: On South Texas Identity, or The Wild Nudes of McAllen
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischSouth Texas: vast, under appreciated, and misunderstood, Also: naked. Check it out.
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Wherein your narrator is roped into a dangerous collaboration in NYC, by dint of being from Texas.