Rainey Knudson

Readers: after years of hankering, I’m trying my hand at a blog. Editor Kelly Klaasmeyer will be contributing from time to time as well. It’s the GT staff blog. Here…

This weekend the Rubin Center at UTEP opens three interesting looking textile shows: Unknitting, curated by UTEP’s Kate Bonansinga and featuring Adrian Esparza, Rachel Gomme, Mark Newport and Sandra Valenzuela.…

Hey artists, tired of donating artwork to nonprofits and only being able to write off the cost of your materials?? There’s a bill in the House to change all that.…

Artpix has released its second DVD from the famous 9 Evenings performances of 1966. This one documents John Cage’s Variations VII, one of his last indeterminate works, which made increasing…

Hey, check out the big profile of MFAH curator Mari Carmen Ramirez in today’s NYT magazine. Ramirez, as I’ve pointed out in the news previously, has done some of the…

This is fun: the Amon Carter’s asking you to vote for your favorite work from their collection. They’re posting the results here. [via]

Those who fondly remember the short, sweet days of Austin’s Fresh Up Club should head on over to Okay Mountain this Saturday, March 22, where FUC co-founder Dave Bryant is…

Check out The Alpha Dilettante, an online guide to visual art in the Valley!

The March issue of Modern Painters selected "Class Pictures: Photographs By Dawoud Bey" at the CAM as a show to highlight… It’s large scale color portraits of high schoolers. Call…

As of 12/17/07 I'm taking a leave of absence for a spell from the newswire, but our trusty blogger Bill Davenport will be filling in in the meantime! If you…

The holiday mid-season pause is shortly upon us, but never fear — Glasstire will have fun reading for you in the next few weeks! Be on the lookout for Miami…

Holland Cotter has a mini-review of Core Fellow Leslie Hewitt's current show at D’Amelio Terras in today's NYT!

MIAMI!!!!!!!!! Lookit the Texans!!!

Uh, oh: I got a lot of flack a while back for harshing on the Art Alliance Austin's buzz (they revamped their name/logo/website, which I thought was riddled with absurd,…

Blanton curator Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro is leaving the museum next March to take over the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC)!!!

This fall, UT Austin will begin offering a non-degree museum studies program for graduate students looking to focus their studies toward working in the field. Faculty advisors include Janice Leoshko,…

Big congrats to Texas artists Margarita Cabrera, Alejandro Diaz (we'll count him), Adrian Esparza and Cruz Ortiz, all of whom will be in the post-Chicano show Phantom Sightings at LACMA…

The DMA's European curator Dorothy Kosinski is headed off to head up the Phillips Collection next spring! Kosinski has curated or co-curated a slew of blockbuster shows (I actually didn't…

Well, jeez. Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, which we've all known and loved/hated in its many incarnations since the mid-80s, looks like it's finally officially imploding in an administrative morass of…

If you haven't already, check out Dallas Artcast, the newest art blog/podcast in TX!! They've just posted a new issue, featuring chat on Jim Burton at 500X, artists from the…