A memorial service for Houston artist Virgil Grotfeldt, who died Monday from complications from cancer, will be held this Monday, March 2, at 10 am in Belin Chapel on the…
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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.
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Houston artist Virgil Grotfeldt died today after a long battle with cancer. Grotfeldt was one of Houston’s leading artists, and his final body of work is a much-admired capstone to…
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There seem to be a bunch of shows all of a sudden dealing with contemporary glass in Houston. "Studio glass" (as opposed to factory glass) is a relatively young phenomenon:…
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This week a bunch of Texas art people descended on Austin to exhort our Legislature to cough up some money for the arts in Texas. It was basically a 6th…
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The latest issue of Austin art newsletter …might be good is titled Take that, Cathy Horyn, a reference to the NYT writer who profiled the Austin art scene in the…
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Modern Art Notes reports that it’s not too late to stop the Coburn Amendment, which would deny stimulus spending to "…any museum, theater, [or] arts center."
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Random thoughts from the Dallas Art Fair: 1. A lot of TX dealers got through the 80’s, when things were terrible here and booming everywhere else, by selling outside of…
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The quickie spiel about the Dallas Art Fair, which previewed yesterday: low expectations on the parts of the dealers — perhaps higher expectations from the out-of-staters than the locals; a…
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On the heels of bad news about NYC galleries closing comes… the Dallas Art Fair!!! The grand opening is tonight, and all eyes are trained on tomorrow’s activity to see…
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Gerald Peters Gallery, which once anchored the heart of the gallery area in Dallas at the corner of Fairmount Street, is closing permanently. The gallery went through a glory period…
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So instead of griping about a show that closed over a month ago in New York, what’s say we look closer to home at stuff still on view? The…
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Following up on my Morandi post: I’ve gotten a lot of flack for criticizing that show. My problem (right or wrong) is not so much with the work itself.…
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Eric McCauley Lee, director of the Taft Museum in Cincinnati, will take over the helm at the Kimbell starting in March. The job has been sitting available for a year…
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If you’ve had enough of this whole holiday/New Year’s thing, Texas museums have stuff to do this weekend: there are public tours at the Blanton and the McNay; both the…
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WORST: While it was encouraging to see the MFAH give a big, 30-year retrospective to a sort-of Texan, it would have been nice if it were someone with a stronger…
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BEST: The McNay‘s new Jane and Arthur Stieren Center is an ambitious and successful addition to that museum. Designed by Jean-Paul Viguier, it doesn’t exactly break new ground as museum…
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BEST: I’d complained for years about how young Houston artists were careerist losers unwilling to do anything beyond look for gallery representation for their derivative, 6th-carbon copy art — and…
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This week we’ll be highlighting the Best and Worst of 2008 in the newswire, and want to tantalize you all with the promise of our Spring Preview 2009, which will…
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"… bodies are not really what [Francis] Bacon is interested in. … He’s enjoying himself, and he’s doing something really abstract." – Matthew Collings in the current Modern Painters …
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Who says everyone is broke? In a big to-do at Austin’s City Hall this afternoon, local patrons Jeanne and Mickey Klein and Julie and John Thornton announced that they’re each…