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The City of Austin’s Economic Development Department has announced a new program geared towards helping artists create and sustain successful and profitable business practices. Open to creators of all disciplines,…

Tommy Gregory has been a curator for the Houston Airport System (HAS) since 2014. Recently, HAS director Mario Diaz named Gregory as HAS Public Art Program Director and Curator. Gregory’s…

Tim Rollins died of natural causes on Tuesday, December 26, reports Hyperallergic and ARTnews. Rollins is probably best known for his collaborative works with Kids of Survival (K.O.S.). After graduate…

This trash alert should begin with the fact that this story comes from Fox News. Also, the lawyer had a Sherman tank on his front lawn for a while, had…

On Friday, February 9, University of Houston System’s public art program will host an evening with Frank Stella, who will be on hand to discuss his UH mural commission Euphonia,…

For those who have kids who are now stir-crazy, over-sugared, or over-tryptophanned, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is presenting a way to get them to sit still in the…

Happy Holidays from all of us here at Glasstire!

After last month’s record-shattering auction of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi at Christie’s auction house, the art viewing public wondered weather or not they would ever have the opportunity to see the…

Jennifer Pearson, the executive director of Houston’s Printing Museum (formerly The Museum of Printing History), has announced that the organization is set to reopen its doors on January 25, 2018. The…

Following the destruction Hurricane Harvey visited on Rockport and the Rockport Center for the Arts, the Beeville Art Museum, an hour northwest of Rockport, offered exhibition space for the damaged…

Houston’s 14 Pews is going up for sale in late February, reports the Houston Chronicle. Cressandra Thibodeaux has run the space since the summer of 2010, but will leave for…

On Wednesday, December 27, Bill Davenport (artist, Bill’s Junk owner, and former Glasstire editor) will give a public demonstration on the safe and proper demolition of a building — in…

In response to the one year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, many activist artists are planning nationwide readings, panel discussions, workshops, and a special Spotify “creativity boost” playlist curated…

Here’s a holiday show to take your family to in North Texas over the next couple of weeks, and a shout-out to Danielle Avram at the Dallas Morning News for…

Box Office Warehouse Suites, which the NB Herard calls “Fort Worth’s most innovative and controversial business park to date” (Is there a contest for this?), will be hosting a graffiti…

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has bestowed a major gift on the Byrdcliffe Art Colony near Woodstock, New York, in support of artists in North America recently displaced by disaster. “This grant includes significant…

Houston’s Fresh Arts is bringing back its Artist INC training seminar for artists, an eight-week program that addresses the specific business needs and challenges artists of all disciplines face every…

For the past couple of years, Dallas’ fire marshal’s office has been inordinately active in shutting down art spaces that it deems not up to code and/or not in possession of…

It took more than six years and 125 artists, but Loving Vincent is finally being shown by The Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Film department this weekend. Loving Vincent is…

The University of Texas at Austin recently announced that, under Douglas Dempster, dean of the College of Fine Arts, it has and will move tens of thousands of fine art books,…