Paula Newton

There have been too many tragic deaths this year and when Robert Leo Hulseman died last week, it was almost overlooked by the news media. Hulseman was the inventor of…

Many artists were ticked off when Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor acquired excusive rights to the world’s “blackest black,” reports artnet. Known as Vantablack, the pigment is so dark that…

In 2014, Forbes magazine ranked Odessa, Texas as the third fastest-growing small city in the United States. Last year, the Odessa Council for Arts and Humanities crafted a master plan…

The Houston Center for Photography (HCP) has announced the winners of its 2017 Fellowships, juried by Andy Adams of FlakFoto. Each winner will receive a $3,000 honorarium, a solo exhibition…

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, known professionally as British pop sensation George Michael, died in his sleep yesterday, Christmas day, at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, at age 53, reports The New…

A few weeks ago, artists and activists gathered at the corner of Houston and Lafayette streets in New York City for a demonstration called “Dear Ivanka,” appealing to the President-elect’s…

Austin has long pouted about its lack of arts coverage (as do many cities), but now Seth Orion Schwaiger of the Austin Chronicle (and Glasstire) really has a beef. He…

Rex Koontz, the University of Houston (UH) School of Art director, is set to oversee a $102,000 project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), reports the Houston…

Artists have been blurring the lines between art and life for quite some time now, often causing viewers to make connections between the socio-political world around us and everyday reality…

The Daily Mail reported on Thursday that “sources” had told them that President-elect Donald Trump had approached Stallone about a top arts-related position in his administration, perhaps as chairman of…

New York’s Art Matters foundation—whose mission is to support experimentation in the arts—announced its 2016 grant recipients yesterday, reports Artforum. The foundation has awarded twenty-six artists with grants ranging from…

This week, the National Endowment for the Arts NEA) announced more than $30 million will be awarded to nonprofit organizations and individuals across the country for grants in the areas…

A recap for those who have not been closely following this crazy crime spree in Philadelphia: back in September, someone was stealing 1s and 0s off the front of residents’…

This time of year, the art scene usually just settles down for a long winter’s nap, but Houston seems to be bucking that trend this year (at least for this…

Bert L. Long Jr. (1940-2013) still lives on in the Houston art scene, as well as the international art scene. Long’s work, which straddles the worlds of fine art and…

For those of an age (somewhat-pre-conspiracy-theory), there were actual heroes to look up to. John Glenn, who died yesterday (December 8, 2016) at the age of 95, was one of…

A Chicago architecture firm, New World Design Ltd, has proposed an installation of golden flying pigs (place metaphor here) in order to obscure the Trump Tower Chicago’s 20-foot-tall TRUMP sign…

As reported by Glasstire a couple of weeks ago in “Names Familiar to Texas Will be in 2017 Whitney Biennial,” Occupy Museum’s Debtfair was included in its list because Art…

A few weeks ago, the Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books released Donald Judd Writings, the most comprehensive collection of the artist’s writings assembled to date. The publication includes Judd’s…

Space is in the air. For those not quite ready to take the Space Poop Challenge (recently posted on Glasstire), the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts is hosting a…