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Interview with contemporary artist Matthew Metzger

  A twister sweeps across a sepia-toned Kansas and suddenly Dorothy enters Technicolor. In Victor Fleming’s 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz”  Dorothy, opening the door into Oz, along with…

Does Galveston need another pyramid? Driving daily past the inverted glass ashtrays of the Moody Gardens, Sallie Barbee and Eric Schnell, co-directors of the Galveston Artist Residency, thought maybe it…

  I cannot overstate the rarity of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s upcoming screenings of Cocksucker Blues (1972), nor my excitement about it. This is the Halley’s Comet of…

Houston artist Beth Secor recalls her first taste of artistic fame: “My  father said,”Hey gordy! Come on over here- it looks just like you!”

Beyond the gallery section of the NCECA conference at the George R. Brown (see part 1 of this post for details) are pieces by the six featured artists of 2013.…

In the next question in our ongoing series, videographer John Carrithers asks Houston artist David McGee to pass on the best advice he ever got. Like all true life lessons,…

The National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts has landed in Houston, and it’s worth the trip downtown. Ceramic artists from around the country are showing off their best…

For a short time, Houston will have the opportunity to view dozens of exhibits by national and international artists in venues from major museums to vacant lots. Surprisingly, these works…

Ricardo Paniagua is accustomed to stares. The 31-year-old’s presence alone intimidates many, and at the bagel shop near Highland Park where I interviewed him, the other patrons were flat-out bewildered…

  Houston Artist Beth Secor talks about her mania for Virgin Mary figurines and old group photos, then impersonates a dog yanked back by a short leash.

As Instagram portfolios overflow with images taken with ever-improving iPhone cameras, Austin-based artist David Johndrow continues to make platinum-palladium, cyanotype and gum bichromate prints, observing minute details that most of…

Morgan Rush Jones grew up in Ohio, moved to New York to study photography and then arrived in Austin two years ago to make work on his computer while exploring…

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Recently I had a chance to talk with Nina Hassele, director of Contemporary Art Month (CAM), and CAM Board Member Leigh Baldwin; both told me all about CAM past and…

Picasso Black and White has all the ingredients of a blockbuster exhibition. The featured artworks are historically significant examples from the best known periods of the artist’s work installed chronologically.…

Glasstire distance educator and motivational speaker Cody Ledvina tells it like it is in Lesson 1.1 of his Pedagogical DVD.  Feel free to use this information for your own class. …

I’d rather not point fingers at specific artists, but I am concerned that there is a lack in much of contemporary art of what I perceive as… Passion. A couple…

Art-chitects Daniel Mihalyo and Annie Han of Lead Pencil Studio discuss their building-in-a-gallery project at UT’s Visual Arts Center’s Vaulted Gallery in a new promo video produced for Glasstire, below.…

“It is hoped and anticipated that this simple act of driving through different parts of the city will bring about a greater awareness to the challenges facing Houstonians and initiate…