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With each bright new building added to the Dallas skyline, the city grows more and more impressive, but we Dallasites also risk overlooking those architectural treasures that have grown familiar…

I recently learned that the gals who run the Nasher Sculpture Center’s store, Heidi Smith and Carolyn Spinelli, have been showing work by local artists in tandem with the museum’s…

Adding my voice to the peanut gallery I’d like to mention a few other notable exhibitions, openings and lectures happening this fall. So get on your walking shoes, pick out…

Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 –…

I was excited to see that The Dallas Morning News started a series on “Money in the Arts” on the financial state of metroplex arts organizations in August. The first…

Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of fine art galleries to visit.…

This year, New  Texas Talent at Craighead-Green Gallery, juried by Marcie Inman, Director of Exhibitions for the Irving Arts Center, has the odor of a world gone feral, or at least…

If you missed Lady Gaga’s male drag performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last night then you also missed the shock on the faces of many celebrity audience members.…

              ACT I – SCANDAL! Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are now immortalized in a nude sculpture to be displayed sometime in September at…

September 10 will mark the one year anniversary of Douglas Britt’s notorious and fantastic e-mail (which made Gawker!) “Houston Chronicle art coverage in the post-Preview era – Part 2”. (If…

No need to panic when you turn the corner of the second floor gallery at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and discover Melissa Miller‘s epic painting The Ark…

Yes it’s still 105 degrees in Austin and while it may be hard to believe, the students and traffic are back signaling that Fall Semester 2011 has begun. To help…

Painting is to Art History as Jesus is to Easter Sunday – you can count on celebrating resurrection at least once a year. Painting never vanished and won’t (or theater,…

Pricing strategy. In the for-profit world, business school classes spend semesters on the topic, entire books are written on its nuances and staff positions—even departments—are devoted to analyzing, tweaking and…

Every December I wait anxiously for The Lives They Lived edition of The New York Times. It’s not because I am morbidly wanting to see who died so much as…

When it comes to art, using the word ‘crisis’ is always a massive overstatement. Between the crises in painting, criticism, and photography you’d think that art was in some real…

The membership show. It has one hundred eighty-something pieces of artwork and no curator. Any member can bring one work of their choosing that expresses the year’s central theme. This…

One of my favorite  writers, the poet Donald Hall, speaks often of gardens and nature in his work, recounting his farmstock lineage, his beloved dead wife’s care of her New…

(All photos by John D. Fisch except where noted. Click high res gallery to view full images.) Dear readers of Glasstire, San Antonio prides ourselves (read: economically relies) on our…

I’ve been wanting to write about The Reading Room for some time now. Directly across from the Cotton Bowl and Exposition Park, The Reading Room is the antithesis to stadium…