Biggs and Collings: Suspicious Utopias, An Interview
British artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are known as much for their beautiful tessellated abstract paintings as their staunch defense of them. Their current [...]
Michael Bise: Life On the List, Chapter 3
Last month marked the one year anniversary of my heart transplant. This chapter, and indeed, this entire comic is dedicated to all the many people [...]
Drawings!: My Favorites From Houston 2012
There has been a lot of excitement about painting in Houston this year, with Aaron Parazette’s In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery and a big [...]
Michael Bise: Life On the List, Chapter 2
The Glasstire Drawing Project presents Chapter 2 of Michael Bise’s “Life On the List,” an autobiographical comic about life on the heart transplant list. For [...]
Houston Finalists Named for Sixth Round of Artadia Awards, Winners To Be Announced at TX Contemporary Art Fair Oct. 19
Panelists Michelle White, Curator at The Menil Collection; Margot Norton, Curatorial Associate at the New Museum, New York; and N. Dash, a New York artist, [...]
Glasstire Texas Auction Announces Unbelievable Roster of Artists-Preview October 3!
Mark your calendar for Glasstire’s first annual Texas Auction! On Friday, November 2 from 6-9pm, Sara Friedlander a vice oresidnet at Christie’s, New York, will [...]
Blind Archer Strikes Again: Michael Bise Wins $50,000 Hunting Art Prize
Houston artist, Glasstire contributor and heart transplant patient Michael Bise has been awarded the Hunting Art Prize for 2012. The $50,000 unrestricted prize is the [...]
Life Off the List: Bise Recovery Continues
Fab artist and GT contributor Michael Bise continues to recover from recent heart transplant surgery- he’s home from the hospital and is doing well.
This Sunday: Boom Boom Benefit for Michael Bise’s New (Pre-Owned) Heart
This Sunday evening there will be a benefit for Houston artist and Glasstire contributor Michael Bise, who is awaiting a heart transplant he can’t afford, [...]
Moody Begs for Bise: New Hearts are Expensive. Obamacare, we need you now!
Setting a high-water mark for art-dealer niceness, Moody Gallery has sent out an open letter asking for help for artist (and Glasstire contributor) Michael Bise, [...]
Glasstire Drawing Project #1: Life On the List, Chapter 1
The Glasstire Drawing Project debuts with Chapter 1 of Michael Bise’s “Life On the List,” an autobiographical comic about life on the heart transplant list. [...]
Texas Contemporary Art Fair: LIVE BLOG
BLOG CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED!!! The Texas Contemporary Art Fair is open! The Glasstire staff will be live-blogging the fair through Sunday. Come by and see us [...]
Life on the List: In the Crowd
There’s a person somewhere in Houston. They are healthy, just entering the prime of their life. They’ve left childhood but haven’t entered old age. They [...]
Michael Bise
Glasstire audio slide show profiling Michael Bise. The artist talks about drawing from old movies, Disney vs. religion and why art should be hard.
Alice Neel at the MFAH
I come from a young family. I’ve been lucky enough to grow up with my mother’s parents playing a significant role in my life. When [...]
