Top Five

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on the Texas Kitsch Master, a rethink of the NSA, and the ascendence of Fusebox Festival in Austin.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the Dallas Fire Marshal's War On Art, the Texas artist every museum should own, and masturbation. In art.

Brandon Zech and guest host Julia Claire Wallace on portraits of Houston’s grassroots players, a self-taught painter who fools the eye, and a proliferation of performance art in the coming week.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on debate night in San Antonio, the joy of watching people eat, and a Texan artist's tropes about Texas.

Brandon Zech and Rainey Knudson on three different solo shows that highlight three artists’ visual evolution, and a group show where the artwork outshines the show’s thesis.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a Houston show named after the street it’s on (Moonmist!), a Panhandle show that requires a magnifying glass, and the undeniable charge of 1930s-era Picasso.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the best fishing in Texas, an artworld version of a Lincoln-Douglas style debate in San Antonio, and the psychology of long-term art collecting.

Brandon Zech and guest host Kaneem Smith on a clever “relocation" of the Menil Collection, a stack of black cats, and the inarguable pleasure of neon.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on a big group show in the Rio Grande Valley, an Unintended Garden in Dallas, and the return of Havel Ruck Projects.

Rainey Knudson and guest host Julie Kinzelman on the lure of Looney Tunes, the opening of Ellsworth Kelly's Austin, and the shock of cultural acclimation.

Brandon Zech and Christina Rees on a pioneer filmmaker's technique, the woman photographer allowed at MLK's funeral, and how the earliest humans played the same visual games we do.

Christina Rees and special guest Neil Fauerso on El Paso’s ability to survive the apocalypse, the invention of art words, and a retired president’s dubious art therapy.

Brandon Zech and Rainey Knudson on an impressive and unexpected permanent collection, masks and monsters, and Austin's new happening ceramics studio.

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on what's happening all year in a Dirty, Dark Place in a flea market in Kyle, a big Glasstire party, and how Texas reacts to its weather. 

Christina Rees and guest host Danette Dufilho of Conduit Gallery on a show of artists and their mentors, the trickiness of teleportation, and a Texas artist’s evolution.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech present Glasstire’s top Texas picks for the coming season.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech make the case for why "Go see some art" is the best resolution you can make for 2018.

In this holiday edition of Glasstire’s Top Five, Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson share tips on the best shows to take your various friends and family members to over the Christmas break.

Brandon Zech and Rainey Knusdon on two old-timey artists, the reinterpretation of history, and the convergence of art and political activism.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on cross-pollinating art collectives, the Lizard Cult, and art you can buy for Christmas.