Rainey Knudson

Hey kids, it’s time for the 5th annual A/V Swap in Houston!! This fun program involves filmmakers and musicians getting a piece of audio, or a bit of film with…

Couple of interesting talks coming up at MFAH: Rick Brettell — former director of the DMA, current overseer of Centraltrak, the new residency program at UTD, and general bigwig in…

Metroplex artist (and occasional Glasstire contributor) Michael Odom has come up with a new way to get his art seen: he’s making flexible car magnets with the image of one…

Hey, Boomers and other assorted old people in Houston: want to find out what this crazy new business jargon RENGEN and WEB 2.0 means???? Too lazy to just Google those…

Two TX museums have made some big acquisitions recently: the McNay went on a shopping spree in conjunction with the opening of their new 45,000 square foot Stieren Center galleries.…

I’m in DFW for a few days, and it may be summertime, but the energy is good. Here’s what I’m seeing: Day One: (most of the) Museums  1. The Nasher…

One of the best parts of visiting the Fort Worth museums is the expansive lawn leading to the Kimbell as you walk down the hill from the Amon Carter. This morning’s…

This weekend and next are your last chances to catch Conduit Gallery’s new media and video series — this weekend they’re screening Yang Fudong’s An Estranged Paradise in addition to…

If your taste runs to classical music, there’s a free concert at MFAH this Thursday, 8/14, 6:30pm by Italian sisters Lavinia and Marzia Carbone on clarinet and classical guitar. Should…

Kudos to the Houston Chronicle‘s Douglas Britt, who this morning calls out the MFAH for an indefensible show of paintings by the Egyptian Minister of Culture. From the article, a…

After getting a hard time from just about everybody (Glasstire included) for being vast, overfunded and underthought, Dallas gallery Light & Sie has responded with vigor to its critics with…

Centraltrak, UTD’s new artist residency program, will be devoting an unused live-work loft this fall to exhibits by Texas artists. First on the docket is Houstonian Sunny Sliger‘s cascading fabric…

Houston artist Molly Gochman is closing the doors on her Commune on North space with the third of her clothing giveaway performances on Saturday, August 23rd. We quote from Deborah…

Whole Foods has started carrying artist Frank X. Tolbert 2‘s chili in its meat freezer section. It’s currently available in all the TX stores, and will be moving into New…

Here’s a different call for entries: MoveOn.org, along with artist Shepherd Fairley, are asking for artwork "themed around Hope, Change, Progress, Unity and Patriotism—the themes that [Barack] Obama‘s campaign brought…

This is cool: Houston artist William Betts is exhibiting at Montreal’s Osheaga Music and Art Festival August 3-4. If this sounds like a polite event with chamber music being played…

As reported in today’s NYT, the Met is lending UT Austin 28 works of outdoor sculpture by such artists as Beverly Pepper, Tony Smith and Louise Bourgeois. Andrée Bober is…

August is here, which means the art world goes pretty much dormant until after Labor Day. A bunch of shows are closing this week and next (including the Area Show…

Ray Daniel, longtime curator at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, has left that institution to teach at UNT. No word yet as to his successor, but we’ll…

Check out midcentury Fort Worth photographer Bill Wood at ICP, on view through September 7!