Glasstire

An obituary for ​​Anya Tish, founder of the Houston-based Anya Tish Gallery.

This week: an exhibition of collage works exploring Black identity in Houston, a solo show of textile works in Dallas, a group exhibition featuring artists using found objects in Austin, and more.

The California College of the Arts’ Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts has appointed Daisy Nam as its next Director and Chief Curator.

This year’s Art Car Parade kicks off tomorrow morning (9am-1pm) with its Main Street Drag, allowing those that may be unable to attend Saturday’s parade an opportunity to preview some…

Together, SOFA Gallery, Ruggiero, Wick, and this exhibition embody the hope and the drawbacks of contemporary art in Austin.

Photocollages in the ancient tradition. I wouldn't have believed there was another rabbit to be pulled out of that old hat!

Watch Christina and Bill act out the week's top five art events in Four Minutes Max!

I’m 80% sure that Dallas is still not an art destination and doesn’t deserve the frequency with which it appears in the travel sections of other cities’ magazines and newspapers.

John Atlas' retrospective at Houston's Art Car Museum closed on March 28, but, with luck and maybe persistent nagging, we will be able to check in on him again in less than 26 years.

At that moment, I understood through an experience what I’ve known intellectually for a long time; the greatest strength of American capitalism lies in its ability to steal and neutralize the authentic, local culture and art of the enslaved, the poor, and the dissatisfied.

The painting range from loose and funky, almost alien-looking collages of lawns and hedges to photorealistic snapshots that capture a particular sunny California day.

The back and forth emails and exchange of files of information over 4,000 miles of separation forced a creative constraint that was serendipitous for both artists.

Bill and Christina catalog some of the more anticipated events leading up to the Dallas Art Fair from The Reading Room gallery in Dallas, with only one misspelling!

Cunningham-Little began her career working in a traditional craft medium, but veered far afield. Her sculptures from the early 1990s are literally glass houses, each a container for metaphoric imagery about domestic violence.

Sometimes a sandwich is just a sandwich, Dr. Freud.

Cities cling in perpetuity to a hometown boy made good. Mel Chin left Houston in 1983, and was clearly influenced by the time he spent in our diverse, surreal and polluted swampland.

Pop culture’s nostalgia obsession has reached an absurd level, and every decade since the beginning of the last century is getting the romance treatment to a startling degree.

It's as if the gallery was shedding its skin at the command of someone's fairy godmother, but the effect isn't as vivid as it could be.

Glasstire goes on location with artists Michelle Rawlings and Patrick Renner. This time, if you just read the list, you're going to miss something.

You're out of room in your house, your kids don't want it, you know better than to give it to Goodwill, and you're not going to pay for storage. What do you do??