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Happy Holidays from all of us here at Glasstire!

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees share tips for the shows to catch if you’re a film buff, a music lover, a True Texan, or an art lover. (And if you have kids, some tantalizing sculptures).

"A group exhibition featuring paintings, drawings, mixed media, photography, sculpture and video that reflect on highlights of Colton’s 20 years in Houston."

Glasstire staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for this incredibly weird and worrisome year.

The sitcoms on this list usually aired a Christmas episode (two involving dream sequences), and although mostly campy, they remain part of my childhood Christmas memories.

The exhibition calls up centuries' worth of folklore deeming noontime the most foreboding hour of the day.

"The photographer explores the potentially destructive ways in which the industrial use of the landscape sustains our way of life."

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech talk about nativity scenes, Christmas art, and the inherent kitschiness of our beloved holiday traditions. 

"Messersmith explores the tenuous relationship between humankind’s built environment and its impact on wildlife through his exquisitely detailed paintings."

Jacobs creates enchanting animations derived from her drawings, where silhouettes of human figures "...come alive for a few seconds."

If you’re into art it’s probably a safe assumption that you’re not the wimpy sort who can’t wait a few more days to behold a book.

The San Antonio museum is attempting to expand representation both in terms of the artists it exhibits and the subjects that appear in its permanent collection's depictions of the West.

This week, Glasstire is joined by Julie and Bruce Lee Webb to run down the greatest outdoor artist environments in Texas.

They rise round and smooth from fields of concrete as if gently nudged upward by a giant underground fingertip. 

The outlines of teeth and lips are faintly visible across the works, but Jones’s paintings remain tantalizingly amorphous, and hover between abstraction and figuration.

"The entire show takes place on the exterior grounds of an overlook-able, un-leased building on West Anderson Lane."

Featured artists include Jim Love, Michael Kennaugh, Pat Colville, Gael Stack, Melissa Miller, James Drake, Michael Bise, Al Souza, Helen Altman, Dan Sutherland, Claire Ankenman, Liz Ward, Page Kempner, and more. 

“I think that is ultimately what is at the foundation of my practice — it is an insistence on mobility, which is like freedom and liberation. To move.”

An exhortation to the world of immersive art: please take me to hell. After all, we already live there. 

Disasters will continue to route the path of history, and Texas will continue to keep up. As you enjoy your holiday, here are some observations from our calendar’s perspective.