Glasstire

The lighting of the Spire will occur on December 16 at 7:30pm.

"I try not to be too much of a bully about giving art away as a Christmas gift. I certainly don't want my friends and family to be like 'oh my god, here we go with the art again.'" 

The works will have a particular emphasis on art either made by Texans or made in Texas.

Christina Rees and Christopher Blay on a Dallas veteran's retrospective in Houston, the intersection of art and design, and a show by someone who runs one of the best art spaces in the state.

For this special Thanksgiving edition, Christina Rees and Brandon Zech run down their favorite food-related art. 

Here, O’Neil answers ten questions (inspired by the Proust Questionnaire and slightly tweaked by Glasstire).

The pre-Doctoral Fellowship comes with a stipend of $3,000 per month, and the Research Fellowship comes with up to $5,000 per month for living expenses.

"You can walk into an artist's studio and it can look chaotic; it can look like a mess. But that doesn't mean that what's happening there is chaotic or messy." 

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on alternative monuments for Dallas, an East Texas homecoming, and a couple of artists who bring the humor.

Danielle Demetria East, current artist-in-residence at Charles Adams Studio Projects (CASP), is curating and hosting “The Ultimate Zine Party."

Christina Rees talks with Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth curator Alison Hearst about the museum's acclaimed Focus exhibition series, the politics of art acquisitions, and the work of current Focus artist Martine Gutierrez.

Briggs is widely credited for building The Museum of Texas Tech University’s extensive print, photography and works on paper collection.

Brandon Zech and Christopher Blay on museum cabaret in Dallas, four surefire art days in Austin, and a reworking of the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” narrative in Houston. 

Reinert interviewed Apollo astronauts and found that their recollections were not what he’d expected.

In 2017, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) featured the work of Ehren Tool, a war veteran who uses craft (and an attendant kind of art) as a therapeutic practice to deal with trauma.

"A lot of the art attractions that have a weight behind them are the hallmark pieces of art history, or the pieces that have come into the public eye — like the Sistine Chapel or the Mona Lisa." 

The installations are on view November 21, 2019-January 12, 2020.

Houston’s Zócalo Apartments announced the three winners of its inaugural residency program for 2020: Input Output, Ronald Jones, and Theresa Escobedo.

Christina Rees and William Sarradet on the fruits of an artist’s travel, a deep dive into the iconography of Mexico, and a show of Dallas artists doing an institutional critique of… Dallas. 

The program is available to students engaged in the arts and offers financial assistance to develop their talents.