Glasstire

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees on a Texas-Mexico sound exchange, some disgusting and dark paintings, and a still-new international performance art festival called Experimental Action.

The DMA names Dr. Nicole R. Myers as the new Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art.

The McNay Art Museum Print Fair in San Antonio returns for its 23rd year in early March.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation has opened up emergency grants to US-based visual artists who have suffered significant losses after natural or man-made disasters.

Erin Cluley Gallery has announced its move to Dallas' Design District, with the new space slated to open on April 6.

This is a return to UT Austin for Ms. Stimpert.

Rainey Knudson, the outgoing publisher of Glasstire, and Brandon Zech, the incoming publisher, run down the top five art events in Texas this week. Also: the first work by a Texas artist that Rainey ever bought.

Pride Houston, a 40-plus year-old LGBTQIA organization, is launching the Pride Houston Art Program to highlight Houston-based LGBTQIA+ artists.

SXSW has announced seven experiential and conceptual art installations to be exhibited in its third annual Art Program, which takes place in March during the conference.

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $20 million gift from The Moody Foundation of Galveston, Texas, to transform the museum’s exterior spaces.

Inspired by the abject-absurd/trash-irony sensibility of Harmony Korine's earlier movies, the 24-year-old Hayden Pedigo made and released a video on his Facebook page that went viral.

This week the Blanton announced that it has acquired the collection of Roberta and Richard Huber.

Rainey Knusdon and guest Natasha Bowdoin on the best art press in Texas, Bowdoin’s giant new installation at Rice, and the drink of choice at Chernobyl.

Brandon Zech will be the next publisher of Glasstire.

The longest-running improvised music festival in the Southwest, the No Idea Festival returns to various venues in Austin later this month.

Over the last year, the tenants of the Flatbed building have been scrambling to relocate; Austin Book Arts Center (ABAC), has found a new home.

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth has announced the appointment of Guillaume Kientz as its new curator of European  Art.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a show that calls for flash photography in Houston, an explosion of prints in Austin, and a retrospective of Sterling Ruby's work in Dallas.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a one-stop survey of Houston photographers, a Dallas painting show with no paintings, and an Austin show called 'Oozy Rat in a Sanitary Zoo.'

“You can choose to be exceptional based on something other than pre-determined measurements of what has value.”