Edmund "Ted" Pillsbury, director of the Kimbell Museum from 1980 to 1998, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack after visiting a client on behalf of Heritage Galleries, where he…
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.
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“Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance” at the Menil Collection is a show you won’t see anywhere else in Texas, or most of the U.S. for that…
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Here’s a taste of the opening weekend of Fotofest: My favorite show was easily RE: groups – American Photographs Before 1950 from W.M. Hunt´s Collection Blind Pirate at Houston Center…
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Hey everyone: this Friday, Dec. 4 is Be the Ball, our annual holiday shindig co-hosted by Fresh Arts Coalition! Our legendary anti-gala this year celebrates Caddyshack and all things tasteless…
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Gallery Sonja Roesch in Houston has a great show up right now. Roesch is a German native, and she likes minimalism, which admittedly is not everyone’s cup of tea. But…
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Michelle White’s been promoted to associate curator at the Menil Collection, which means 1) a much-deserved promotion for a talented young curator (currently working on a show of Richard Serra…
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Preview the new season of Art:21, the PBS series about artists, this weekend and next at the MFAH’s Brown Auditorium! Saturday, Oct. 3, will be a screening of "Compassion," and…
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We are pleased to announce that our editor Kelly Klaasmeyer has been awarded the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship for 2009. Kelly joins arts writers from the LA Weekly, NPR…
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This Friday, August 7, from 11 pm – 1:30 am Central Time, we will be performing some hosting maintenance. The site will be offline for 30 minutes during this period. Sorry…
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The Dallas Contemporary has announced the winners of their self-described "Dallas Art World Oscars" — a.k.a. the legend awards, awarded annually to an artist, arts professional and patrons. Congratulations to Vernon Fisher, Nash Flores,…
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Hey everyone: the "Favify" button on our homepage is the first installment in A Feverish Dream, by Houston artist and 2009 Glasstire Virtual Resident Brian Piana! Click on Favify and see what happens…
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Austin artist and UT prof Robert Dale Anderson died unexpectedly on Sunday at his home. Here is the Austin Chronicle’s post. Anderson was very active in the Texas art scene:…
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Jeffrey Grove of the High Museum has been named the first Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the DMA. He’ll start in September.
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PBS goobs like us get all fired up when something like this comes across the wire: the Amon Carter has an 1847 painting by James Henry Beard currently on view…
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At first blush, the current show at the Kimbell doesn’t excite much in the way of anticipation. But although "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy" does include some of the…
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Lawndale Art Center has been on something of a roll lately. Their curatorial process hasn’t changed: all shows are decided by open submission to a curatorial board, so there’s no…
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The Armory this year was solid. Pulse and Volta, on the other hand, felt mostly like the art world slinging the same hash we’ve been chowing down for the past…
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The Armory this year is solid: the art on view is good, and there’s very little nonsense. Here are some snapshots: (l-r) Menil Collection associate curator Michelle White; Patrick Reynolds…
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UT Press has just published a handsome catalog of Lance Letscher‘s collage work. Like any good catalog (or solo exhibition), it enriches one’s appreciation of the artist, especially if you…
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The gang at Austin’s Okay Mountain recently emailed us about their fun new blog, which reminded us to freshen up our links page. We’ve added more Texas art sites sorted…