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Interview with contemporary artist Alan Reid

On Tuesday, February 26, beginning at 7 a.m., The Art Guys walked the 29.6 miles of Little York Road, the longest street in Houston. Otis Ike, director of the upcoming…

In light of Houston’s apparent difficulty with the nexus of trees and art, it was refreshing to attend a timely and thought-provoking performance-art event involving a tree in Guadalupe Plaza…

Houston Artist David McGee wishes artists felt less dependent on accpetance by institutions and audiences as a measure their success.

I recently had the chance to get into the studio of artist and friend Michael Anthony García. Our conversation about his most recent work for People’s Gallery at the City…

“What is the name of that landscape painter.  You know the one I’m talking about; the one who painted atmosphere like uh…like Corot.  If I call his name, you’ll know…

  Cloaked in blue tarps, the wood piles behind our house shrink daily as we burn the stuff to stay warm. There is one—our shelter-magazine centerfold stack—which we haven’t touched.…

The original “TRON” movie, PC gaming in the early ‘90s and the struggles of high school geometry came to mind when I first saw Houston artist Jonathan Leach’s sleek-lined paintings…

I have a longstanding daydream that my house will burn down. I’d pull in the driveway one day to a pile of smoldering cinders that had once been my home,…

Years ago, an artist and I were discussing humor as a device in art. I expressed the opinion that, while there seemed to be a wide-spread acceptance of humor when…

In what feels like a direct answer to detractors of Dallas’ very centralized and compacted (and rarified) still-new Arts District, the Nasher Sculpture Center has made a major move toward…

Glasstire asked Houston artist Beth Secor to talk about her current show at Inman Gallery, and she tells how drawings of Texas trees are tangled up with her father’s death…

Carl Hammoud’s current exhibition of paintings and drawings at Lora Reynolds Gallery feels cool and empty. The works are also nearly impeccably installed. I recently told a friend that the…

Emily Sloan re-stages her Caddy Shack-inspired performance at Houston’s Darke Gallery for Cody Ledvina, who pokes at her with a stick.

Art is often at its best when it’s out of the ordinary. That’s what makes  Marfa so alluring, or Amarillo’s Cadillac Ranch. And while the Beeville Art Museum may not…

Last week’s episode of “GIRLS” showed Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah Horvath, engaging in a topless round of ping pong with Joshua, a recently separated 42-year-old handsome stranger performed by Patrick…

This is officially the season of painters’ painters. Three major exhibitions curated by Houston-based painters have opened in the last five months– “In Plain Sight” curated by Aaron Parazette at…

  Stupid Painting with your lack of ideas I won’t say “Conceptual Art.”  It’s a lie, and not the good you-kinda-look-like-Idris-Elba lie, but more like the wretched no-such-thing-as-a-stupid-question kind of…

Last month marked the one year anniversary of my heart transplant. This chapter, and indeed, this entire comic is dedicated to all the many people in the art community in…

The formats are traditional and the originality is through the fucking roof. Artists’ books at Texas Woman’s University; ceramics at SMU. Artistic boundaries are pushed and plundered. Academia. Who knew.…