Houston’s 14 Pews is going up for sale in late February, reports the Houston Chronicle. Cressandra Thibodeaux has run the space since the summer of 2010, but will leave for…
December 2017
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Houston! Learn How to Rehab Your House With Bill Davenport and Andy Warhol!
by Glasstireby GlasstireOn Wednesday, December 27, Bill Davenport (artist, Bill’s Junk owner, and former Glasstire editor) will give a public demonstration on the safe and proper demolition of a building — in…
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In this holiday edition of Glasstire’s Top Five, Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson share tips on the best shows to take your various friends and family members to over the Christmas break.
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In response to the one year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, many activist artists are planning nationwide readings, panel discussions, workshops, and a special Spotify “creativity boost” playlist curated…
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Here’s a holiday show to take your family to in North Texas over the next couple of weeks, and a shout-out to Danielle Avram at the Dallas Morning News for…
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Box Office Warehouse Suites, which the NB Herard calls “Fort Worth’s most innovative and controversial business park to date” (Is there a contest for this?), will be hosting a graffiti…
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Last Saturday, on the last morning of a New York City trip, Glasstire was walked (in fresh snow) by a host in the Washington Heights neighborhood to the Hudson River…
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NY Artist Residency for Artists Displaced by Natural Disaster, Including Harvey
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe Pollock-Krasner Foundation has bestowed a major gift on the Byrdcliffe Art Colony near Woodstock, New York, in support of artists in North America recently displaced by disaster. “This grant includes significant…
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Houston’s Fresh Arts is bringing back its Artist INC training seminar for artists, an eight-week program that addresses the specific business needs and challenges artists of all disciplines face every…
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For the past couple of years, Dallas’ fire marshal’s office has been inordinately active in shutting down art spaces that it deems not up to code and/or not in possession of…
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"To me, artists would play a central role in helping to create a new kind of aspirational society."
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"What happens in Texas is often more resolved and extreme than elsewhere."
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It took more than six years and 125 artists, but Loving Vincent is finally being shown by The Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Film department this weekend. Loving Vincent is…
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The University of Texas at Austin recently announced that, under Douglas Dempster, dean of the College of Fine Arts, it has and will move tens of thousands of fine art books,…
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Can a cake be art, or more succinctly, what is art?
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TX Craft Artists: the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Wants You!
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) has announced an open call for its annual CraftTexas exhibition. Now in its tenth year, the exhibition will feature works made by contemporary craft artists…
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Earlier this week, the US government’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality. Passed in 2015 under the Obama administration, the net neutrality regulation allowed stronger government oversight…
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The way culture engraves itself on you is the haunting core of Richard Armendariz’s show.
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Early this year, FotoFest announced its lead curator (Sunil Gupta) and theme (India) for its 2018 Biennial and Gupta gave a talk at Houston’s Asia Society Texas last month. Now,…
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The show gathers together a trove of work from many young Texas-based artists, along with their peers from across the country, and aims to represent the inherent 'untruth' of photography.