Glasstire is pleased to announce the 2021 Greater Houston Art Writing Prize, a competitive award designed to find and highlight emerging arts writers in Texas.

Glasstire is pleased to announce the 2021 North Texas Art Writing Prize, a competitive award designed to find and highlight emerging arts writers in Texas.

Willmott's film is based on a true story about the all-Black 24th United States Infantry Regiment and the Houston Riot of 1917, a mutiny by 156 African-American soldiers in response to police brutality.

“He was an artist to the core — true to his vision, dedicated to his craft, and generous with his offerings."

"AWS’s annual exhibition is one of the most revered watercolor exhibits in the world. Forty paintings were selected from more than 1,100 artists worldwide."

"Exquisite Adornment," a promised expansion of SAMA’s collection, indicates an evolving approach toward displaying and contextualizing Asian art.

"Through a conjured manipulation of substance and light, the show oscillates between visceral physicality and ethereal immateriality."

This week, On Video spotlights two landmark films by artist Arthur Jafa available online.

"Every day try to be more human, and less of a consumer." 

ALH recognizes Rick Lowe for Texas Artist of the Year, Celia Álvarez Muñoz for Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts, and Mary & Bernardino Arocha as Texas Patrons of the Year.

Atlanta-based native Houstonian Ian Gerson; Bee Caves, Texas artist Everest Pipkin; and Cincinnati's Kate Turner have all begun the year-long residency remotely, and will arrive in Galveston on November 1.

The initiative features street theatre, documentary film, animation, performance, visual art, and more.

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees on a Dallas show Killer Mike wants to see in person, one of the most limber political artists in the state, and what it’s like to jury a show if you’re from these parts.

Three new exhibitions will open on Thursday, and HCCC's new resident artists have all moved into their studios.

350 large-format digital screens and IKE Smart City kiosks will carry the campaign to multiple cities, including San Antonio.

Featuring works by Rachel Comminos, Julie DeVries, Soomin Jung, Paloma Mayorga, and Ryan Runcie.

I felt a bit like Alice down the rabbit hole: the surreal quality of masked visitors quietly whispering oohs and ahhs, while I played detective trying to locate and identify the local artists’ work.

Since the group’s inception in 2005, TWA has awarded more than $2.9 million to at least 200 arts organizations.

Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth, and just 10 days ago, Houston, have all passed proclamations declaring the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees discuss how a recent national report about culturally vibrant cities, which only counted one Texas region among its top 40 places, impacts about ideas of the state and its artists.