Houston artist Jon Hopson is opening a new commercial gallery space in Houston this summer. Hello Project will be located within the venerable McMurtrey Gallery‘s former project and storage space.…
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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Intensity is not a perfume!
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It is the most unsurprising and natural thing that, in our consciousness, we would conjure something in the universe, over and over again.
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When Theo Wujcik, the great technical printmaker and beloved personality, laid his head on his hospital pillow, none of it mattered: not Rosenquist’s or Ruscha’s fame, or Theo’s lack thereof, the Dallas art scene, the fainting guy in the audience, or me.
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Seek out these strange and wonderful paintings of a fleeting, uneasy world that embodies a darker side of our state identity.
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A charming show of wallpaper at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston pairs historic wallpapers with contemporary examples that slyly riff on traditional patterns.
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The answer to the urgent problems of the world might not lie in yet another elegant, feel-bad-to-feel-good art installation.
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The art historian and scholar Thomas McEvilley died yesterday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York. He was 73 years old. A national figure and author of numerous monographs, essays…
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[Disclosure: I am married to one of The Art Guys. I am not an impartial bystander. Read the following with that in mind.] It was announced yesterday that the Menil…
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Thank you for being a part of this, Glasstire’s very special 11th Anniversary Year!! We’ve had a banner year and we’re very grateful to all of our readers and supporters.…
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In the wake of this fall’s Houston Fine Art Fair and Texas Contemporary Fair in Houston, someone remarked to me that art fairs are “Art Porn,” an overwhelming smorgasbord of…
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Three things: 1. Amid the brouhaha following Paul Schimmel’s departure from MoCA this summer, Eli Broad was quoted in the LA Times as estimating the value of MoCA’s exhibits by…
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Breaking news: this September, David Shelton will move his eponymous gallery from San Antonio to Houston. The new gallery will be located in the iconic Isabella Court building on Main…
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Let’s take a moment to check in with Galveston. Poor old Galveston, right? The city has its great old Victorian mansions and brick streets and palm-lined avenues; it also has…
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Congratulations to Austin-based artist Jeff Williams, winner of this year’s $30,000 Texas Prize!! Statewide audiences will perhaps be most familiar with Jeff’s dust-encrusted sculptures from a few years ago (as…
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This just in: after a 5-year run which saw the introduction of some great artists to Houston, the much-loved Bryan Miller gallery in Houston is closing. The current group show,…
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Hilton Kramer, chief art critic for the NY Times from 1973-82, has died at age 84. Like many critics whose careers grew up with postwar American art, Kramer never feared…
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In what can only be described as a coup, the massive ceramics collection of New York dealers Garth Clark and Mark del Vecchio was acquired by the MFAH five years…
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Houston arts patron Toni Beauchamp died March 9 from ovarian cancer. A steadfast presence on the Houston art scene for decades, Toni served as the assistant director at Blaffer Gallery…
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The big news this weekend is the arrival of Michael Heizer‘s “big rock” at LACMA, attended by hundreds of onlookers lining Wilshire Boulevard with their camera phones at 4:30 a.m.…