Twenty Questions: David McGee’s First Encounter with Art
Houston artist David McGee recalls an encounter with a Picasso impersonator on TV for videographer John Carrithers.
Award-Winning Glasstire Editor Klaasmeyer Stepping Down
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 [...]
Inevitable Starchitecture: Romero’s Mexic-Arte Museum Maquette at the Guggenheim
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 [...]
We Knew You Cared: Inaugural Glasstire Auction Raises Over $100K
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 [...]
TX Contemporary Art Fair: Let the Load-In Begin!
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 [...]
R.I.P. Artnet
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, [...]
Show and Tell: Chupacabrona (semi-) undocumented
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 [...]
The Chupacabrona Tour, Part 2: On South Texas Identity, or The Wild Nudes of McAllen
Basketball season brings out the aggrieved San Antonian in me. I am a Spurs fan, of course. Not a basketball enthusiast, necessarily, but a Spurs [...]
Art Narc: Vildelife
My former landlord in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a sphinx-like Teutonic manchild who sublet me one of the ad-hoc drywall sleeping lofts in the colossal warehouse he leased [...]
End-of-2011 recommendation: Justin Boyd’s boids at Artpace
Justin Boyd’s Window Works installation at Artpace is called “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence.” This title struck me as maybe unnecessarily long [...]
Our 10th Anniversary Farewell: John Perreault on Robert Rauschenberg’s Glass Tires
Back in 2001, our founder Rainey Knudson named this site in honor of Robert Rauschenberg’s cast glass tire sculptures. The glass tires were made [...]
Chupacabrona World Tour! (…Of South and West Texas)
Hi again, Glasstire readers! This is what I think y’all look like: And also like this: Hello to you all. This December, I embark [...]
The Chupacabrona World Tour (of South and West Texas)
Hi again, Glasstire readers! This is what I think y’all look like: And also like this: Hello to you all. This December, I embark [...]
Queer State(s) at the UT Visual Art Center: Out of Nowhere
My friend Rebecca watches ”RuPaul’s Drag U” with her six-year-old daughter, who’s a big fan. The six-year-old, her mother believes, doesn’t understand that Jujubee, Raven and [...]
Texas Contemporary Peeves and Qualms
So, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair is over. (Which gives me an excuse to post the above image. This particular Rachel Hecker piece is impactful [...]
TX Contemporary Fair Countdown: CAMH Benefit Preview in 2:56
Enormous aisles, enormous booths, enormous art, all surrounded by a fortification of shipping containers: the TX Contemporary Fair promises already to be a whopper. From [...]
Glasstire founder waves the online arts journalism banner in new NEA blog
Glasstire founder Rainey Knudson’s has been invited to blog on the NEA’s website; in her first post she explains the alarming decline among print journalists [...]
Arts writers in hard times: notes from the chopping block
Elizabeth Kramer, an arts journalist who writes for the Gannett-owned Louisville Courier-Journal, escaped massive layoffs on Tuesday, when the paper shed ten percent of its [...]
Glasstire regionalism report
To mark our 10th anniversary, Glasstire is bringing a star-studded group of thinkers to the region to think about regionalism next Saturday. Robert Storr, dean [...]
SATX-ATX Manifesto with the strength of a thousand demons!
Since I titled this post thusly, I sort of want to write the whole thing in ALL CAPS FOR EMPHASIS. But I won’t. Hello! I’m [...]
