Paula Newton

Denton native and former owner of Voertman’s bookstore died Wednesday, reports the Denton Record-Chronicle. He was 88 years old. The Record-Chronicle writes: In 1986, the Greater Denton Arts Council honored…

Houston will host its Houston Pride Parade this Saturday, June 24, waaaay before Dallas’ “Lakewood Brewing Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade presented by T-Mobile” in mid-September and well before the…

This Saturday, Corpus Christi will host its first Texas Body Paint Festival, according to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. The event begins at 6pm and attendees may choose to have their…

A group called Creative Waco partnered with two State Representatives to host a juried art exhibition featuring artwork by 52 artists from Waco and McLennan County, reports Waco’s KWTX. Waco…

Although President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, the freeing of slaves was neither encouraged nor enforced in Texas until June 19, 1865. Oh, Texas. Check…

Houston Public Media’s Jen Rice put out a radio news spot yesterday, interviewing Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) Director Gary Tinterow, Contemporary Arts Museum (CAMH) Director Bill Arning, and…

Go see it now! Houston’s Menil Collection is going to shut its doors for eight whole months while its floors are sanded and refinished, reports the Houston Chronicle’s Molly Glentzer.…

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has approved a grant of $20,000 to support Glasstire in its second round of funding for FY 2017. That’s great news for Texas…

There’s a new nonprofit in Denton called the Denton Music & Arts Collective (DMAC) and first on its agenda is health care assistance for local artists and musicians, reports the…

For those who have been missing the artifacts and lore of cattle-raising need wait no longer. After almost seven months of renovation, The Cattle Raisers Museum has reopened, reports The…

Any Houstonian art lover, as well as art lovers throughout the world, knows that we were blessed to be in the company of art curator Walter Hopps. We are now…

The national non-profit organization Artadia has awarded over $3 million to more than 300 artists in the past 18 years. In 2003, the city of Houston was added to its…

It seems like the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has been celebrating its campus redevelopment project for ages. Last year, it held a huge block party for the groundbreaking…

Lauren Kelley has been named executive director at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling in New York, reports Artnews. Kelley joined the museum in 2013 as part…

The Irish News has been collecting artwork posted on social media in honor on the London attacks on Saturday night, including Captain Britain (above) by Texas artist Sam Wilson. “What…

Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, is leaving Houston to become the new curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine…

The 2017 Houston Artadia awards finalists were announced yesterday: Regina Agu, Catherine Colangelo, Gabriel Martinez, Kaneem Smith, and Sarah Welch. Artadia is a national non-profit organization that supports visual artists…

Austin’s KXAN.com has reported that another company is stealing the artwork of independent artists. Artist Robert Hurst told KXAN about yet another website that has stolen his creations for their…

  Donations to non-profits can be a tricky business, especially when it comes to naming rights. The Dallas City Council voted 14-1 recently to recognize a $22 million gift offered…

  A few years ago, Glasstire wrote about Mark Flood’s art featured on the CBS show Elementary. Now, Dallas artist  has hit the big time on the popular show Empire,…