The Whitney Biennial '08 list is out. Congrats to artists-with-TX-connections (yes, two of them are Core/former Core) Leslie Hewitt, William Cordova, and Mike Smith!
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Rainey Knudson
Rainey Knudson
Rainey Knudson founded Glasstire in 2001 as one of the earliest web-only arts journals in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher, ending an 18-year run at the helm of the publication. A frequent public speaker, she has given talks about online communications and the role of the critic at numerous universities and museums.
https://raineyknudson.com
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Great snippets from NYT critic Roberta Smith at last night's annual Artlies lecture: "You have to be willing to be betrayed by your taste." "There is an unexamined vehemence about…
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"Aerosol artist" Saber is doing a book signing tonight, Friday 11/16, 6-9 pm at Gallery Lombardi in Austin!!
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Victory Media Network is a strange Dallas art boondoggle located down by the American Airlines Center — a big development with 8 gigantic, super-bright video screens mounted along a promenade…
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Check out the new art blog Art Model Radio, featuring Dallas artist Ted Kincaid as a regular contributor! They're billing themselves as an anti-blog that doesn't rehash all the Internet…
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Cool event this Thursday, 11/15 in Houston: Aurora Picture Show and the Mitchell Center at UH are presenting SONA: Wind, Rain, and Trains, as part of their CITY SOUNDSCAPES series.…
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This week is a biggie for criticism in Houston — Thursday night, Artlies is bringing Roberta Smith to do a lecture at the Menil, 7:30 pm; and Saturday is the…
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Here's a funny itemette about the aftermath of the Arthouse Texas Prize party (will someone please help Katrina find the belt buckle?)… as Ivan Lozano writes in his blog today,…
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Seen at Dallas's And/or gallery last week: Guthrie Lonergan's great video Artist looking at camera, featuring stock footage from Getty Images. Lonergan will be included, along with And/or founder Paul…
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Yes, you may have thought the Glasstire Virtual Residency had gone the way of static HTML, but it's back with our new resident, Paul Slocom (speak of the devil)!!! Paul's…
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Today's Houston Chronicle Zest magazine has a profile of Menil curator Franklin Sirmans (the rather brainless cover text "Curator cool: The Menil Collection's Franklin Sirmans has the Houston art scene…
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So the piece Ladder for Booker T. Washington by Martin Puryear has been extensively featured in the press about the Puryear show currently at MoMA (the piece is in the…
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Rhizome.org has updated their site, and ex-Texan David Michael Perez is writing for them. It looks good — good new content; like the stuff they're covering.
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The El Paso Museum of Art's has asked for entries to its Binational 2008 exhibit, wherein artists will be shown at the EPMA and the Museo de Arte in Juárez…
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Glass is an enduring interest here at the 'tire, and we're thrilled to see Esque, a great design firm we first saw at ICFF a few years ago, coming to…
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Congrats to Dario Robleto, winner of the first Tobin Grand Prize for Artistic Excellence from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio!! Robleto was awarded $12,500 total at this year's event.
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The CAM hasn't lately been an institution you think of as on the edge of the zeitgeist, but check out the current covers of Art in America and Artforum —…
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This PR caught our eye: Johanna Drucker is lecturing Thursday, Nov. 8, 5:30 pm at the Meadows Museum, and is billed thusly: "SHE PROMISES TO MOVE US BEYOND THE PARADIGM…
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Artforum has published a pretentiously written, vacuous hand-wringer about the Tut show/consumerist state of the art world. Read it and comment on our message boards.
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Congrats to the McNay, whose catalog Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920 to 1950 has won the 2007 International Fine Print Dealers Association Book Award!!…