The Museum of Ephemerata in Austin has a new website. “As meditation and mediation on the theme of loss and gain, the Museum brings visitors into witness of abjection, focusing…
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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In the works is a book on the art and life of departed Houston artist and fisherman Lucas Johnson. A fundraiser will be held this March 27 at the Art…
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We’re going to be seeing a bunch of James Surls action coming up here, with his big show at UH’s Blaffer Gallery, a show at Barbara Davis Gallery, a fancy…
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Austin artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler premier their film House with Pool in a solo exhibit at the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel in Switzerland through April 18. A 1950s…
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Inspired by Houston’s Project Row Houses, groups in Corpus Christi are transforming a grungy old laundromat in that city’s North Side into a community art center. Read the full story…
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Austin artist Troy Brauntuch is exhibiting currently at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery in NYC. The show also features work by Keith Edmier and Richard Phillips and runs through February 14.…
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The President has requested $18 million in additoinal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the largest increase since 1984. The moolah will go to fund something called American…
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The last two times we’ve tried to check in with the Kimbell Art Museum‘s media department, we’ve been literally turned away at the door with the assurance that they’ll mail…
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At first we thought this was a hoax, but it’s true: the Irving Bible Church has opened a gallery space next to the Ugly Mug coffee shop in Irving. According…
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Chrissie Iles, Whitney curator of film and video, and Tom Eccles, director of the Public Art Fund in NYC, are coming to Austin in February, March and April as part…
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SBC has given $250K to Blue Star Art Space for a big show of contemporary Mexican art!!!! The show will feature about 55 artists, opening this May.
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Do you hanker for a marathon reading of The Hobbit at 3 am? The Dallas Museum of Art is here to serve yours and the needs of hundreds of other…
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Check out Marfa’s newest art attraction: Ballroom Marfa, a non-profit art space with a compelling website and plans for big things. Grand opeing this April 2-3!
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As if one Texas show in Boston wasn’t enough for those Yankees, yet another has popped up! Live From Texas is in the swanky Newbury retail district and features the…
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Twang is a show of “sculpture from Texas,” curated by sometimes-Glasstire contributor C. Sean Horton and opening this June at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Check out that outstanding…
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New York artist Banks Violette places the new Robert Smithson book Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere in his Top 10 in the January issue of ArtForum. The book was…
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Berkeley Art Museum opens the first major exhibition of Ant Farm, the seminal 70s media-n-architecture collaborative, on January 21. We lost Doug Michels, part of the Ant Farm triumverate, last…
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Glancing at the Ft. Worth Modern‘s advance schedule shows a Dan Flavin retrospetive a year from now, organized by (yup) DIA. After looking at the encrustulatingly boring Flavin install at…
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This April, the Contemporary Arts Museum will feature Aaron Parazette in its Perspectives exhibition series. Yay Aaron!!!
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The quadrennial show of Houston artists at Blaffer Gallery is here, and they want everyone from whippersnappers to established art heavies to apply!! This year they’ve gotten Bill Arning from…