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David Aylsworth has debuted a subtle and beautiful new group of canvases, in which the color white carries paradoxical tensions of opaqueness and translucency, form and space, content and blankness,…

  Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16, courtesy Northwest Chicago Film Society I’m not sure when the guys that run the Texas Theater sleep, they keep that theater so freaking…

I’d seen Bret Slater’s work before, in his studio, just prior to all of it getting zipped into a big duffle bag and schlepped across the Atlantic for Art Brussels by…

Radcliffe Bailey’s show “Memory as Medicine” opened at the McNay last week.  I first saw Bailey’s work in “The Magic City,” his ill-fated show at the Blaffer Gallery in 2001.…

It’s possible of course that Marcel Duchamp did not invent the readymade—after all, artists have prized random objects since cave painters first stumbled upon bison-shaped driftwood in the streams near…

  Sicardi Gallery opened up their new building last night and it’s pretty amazing. Sicardi finally has a space that lives up to the ambition of its program which includes…

Featuring seven artists’ work in two galleries, the exhibition City Zoo marks the debut of Brand 10’s new space—And X. Conveniently located on the I-30 service road, And X’s mission…

Glenn Downing was Texas-born and raised “alongside men with little or no formal education; men who grew up using their hands and got where they were in life by just…

You need to go see Danny Lyon’s brilliant photographs while they’re up at the Menil. The words that follow contain praise, but also doubt, disappointment and resentment. Should my feelings…

This past Saturday independent curator Cynthia Mulcahy and artist Robert Hamilton had a public picnic and reception to celebrate the planting and subsequent bloom of seventeen hundred Aztec Gold sunflower…

William Pope.L, Foraging (asphixia version), 2008, Digital C-Print   It was 2003 and “William Pope.L’s: eRacism was on view at Houston’s DiverseWorks as part of a national exhibition tour (also…

Not unlike Texas, Los Angeles suffers from some art world stereotypes. In honor of our recently launched Southern California site, Glasstire SoCal, we present Los Angeles writer Carol Cheh’s “Seven…

On Wednesday, Glasstire’s Rainey Knudson and Kelly Klaasmeyer were given a hard hat tour by the dapper Matt Johns of the Blaffer Museum, and they took the intern along! Me!…

David Politzer’s new series When You’re Out There debuts in two parts this month at the Houston Center for Photography and Lawndale Art Center. In both shows, Politzer plays with…

  Typically it’s fun to sit back and watch as the art world in Austin continues to grow, gain strength, respect, and generally produce quality art and artists despite its topsy-turvy…

A forgotten series called Impressions of Dallas, last exhibited almost 60 years ago in New York City and exactly 60 years ago in its namesake, has been resuscitated by the…

Well my issue of The New Yorker Magazine came today and on the cover was my inspiration for Similar but Different #29: The Rainbow Connection. Newsweek went so far as…

Jackie Tileston’s latest exhibition Freefall at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas includes paintings from 2007 to present. I’ve followed Tileston’s work for the past ten years and I never get…

  Mishka Henner, Dutch Landscapes, 2011  So, it’s been about a month since the Dallas Art Fair weekend and all the very good independent shows and events that surrounded it.…

So I’m bringing back my series Mirror Mirror to Glasstire which was named in honor of its first posting and dedicated to all the multitasking, multi-talented, and multimedia artists who…