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"These photographs by Austin photographer Will van Overbeek debuted at the Austin Museum of Art in 2007 and were acquired for LMFA’s permanent collection in 2017."

"The images, taken in the late 1980s, highlight a variety of people and places found around East Texas."

The project was the brainchild of Deborah Peoples, who ran for Mayor of Fort Worth last May.

The show is stunningly beautiful one-quarter scale reconstruction of all the works in a legendary and elusive Dwan Gallery exhibition.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech give you options for making private appointments to see art in galleries, joining the public to see art at a major museum, or streaming art from home.

"An exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints and collages by Houston artist Leamon Green, exploring the complexities of migration and African American identity in an increasingly globalized world."

While the images may appear tame today, they very much defied the cultural decorum of their time and place. 

Christopher Blay's May 22 video check in with Letitia and Sedrick Huckaby at Huckaby Studios. The artists and educators talked about studio work during the Great Lockdown of 2020, family, and their students.

From all of us here at Glasstire, we wish all the dads out there a Happy Father's Day!

Christopher Blay and Christina Rees talk about the events of the last few weeks, and whether black artists are holding out hope that this moment will move the needle on racial violence and injustice.

As we commemorate Juneteenth, the day that marked The Emancipation Proclamation's arrival to Texas a full two and a half years after the 1863 decree, these works emphasize how long the road has been, and how far still we have to go.

Featuring, among others, Ruth Orkin, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Grete Stern, Flor Garduño, Mariana Yampolsky, Marta Maria Perez Bravo, E-J Major, Ida Lansky, Delilah Montoya, Irene Bayer, Jeanine Michna-Bales, and Ferne Koch.

Vaughan’s plein air subjects derive from all over the U.S., but she gravitates toward the countryside lining the Texas coast.

Christopher Blay and guests Danielle Demetria East, Robert L. Hodge, David Jeremiah, and Vicki Meek present a list and a conversation highlighting works by artists confronting social issues, and exasperation with having to do so.

"Color has always carried cultural meaning and symbolism for artists, and red is one of the most significant and evocative of colors."

I don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s a new feeling — fear with some glimmer of the unknown, actual change like light diffusing off the bend of a mountain tunnel.

Texas oil money has never procured a collection of oil-on-canvas works nearly as magnificent as that of Charles and Jayne Wrightsman, who were the preeminent patrons of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the last half-century.

"In her latest series of works on Linen, Mokha Laget creates complex articulations of imaginary space by freely arranging geometric shapes on stretched fabric."

Episodes have addressed artists’ day jobs, gentrification and neighborhood displacement, the Alamo in cinema, long gone music venues of San Antonio, Hemisfair 1968, Fiesta Noche del Rio, and UFOs in South Texas.

Everything is made of the same matter and light. This is elemental painting.