Glasstire

Hawk was lying, facedown, on the concrete floor in a pool of clear fluid as if he had passed out on the sidewalk in front of a club, or fallen off his skateboard. Barefoot, he was Everyman, from Brooklyn.

Just as San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art (SSA) is gearing up for its new BFA program, it announced that it will be building an addition to the Edith McAllister…

A porthole through which we experience Bontecou’s preoccupation with disaster and instability, on the blade-thin line between attraction and revulsion.

Peppered with mischief, Sieben's skateboard ramp, clubhouse, and campfire pit explore the brink of childhood, when adolescents begin exploring a bigger, adventurous subculture.

Media art (now “new media art”), including Anker’s, is evidence that modernism never died, it just plodded along, unnoticed during the Epoch of Irony that was postmodernism.

I am impatient to feel awe in my home city. Dallas ain’t Rome—the grammatically troubled understatement of all understatements.

Critic Dave Hickey begins by dissing Glasstire, Texas, Houston, stupid liberals, and Rice University, then goes on to the futility of the NEA and alternative art institutions.

1. Michael Sieben: It Will All Happen Again UT Visual Arts Center (VAC), Austin January 31 – May 10 Opening: January 31, 6–9 pm Known for his work as a…

It’s been a year since Louis Grachos took the helm at The Contemporary, and hired Heather Pesanti as Senior Curator. I sat down with them for a series of conversations on Austin and their vision for the rebranded institution.

Without mathematics there is no art. -Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (1445–1517), Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting. The…

The vaguely acrid smell of burlap lurks in Sicardi Gallery’s sleek rooms. It's a bit of a departure from Sicardi’s usual beautiful-but-cold aesthetic.

With Amarillo Ramp, Smithson’s final work, we begin to realize the extent of the artist's infatuation with our state. He's begging us to claim him as one of our own.

Speaking at a General Electric plant in Wisconsin today, President Obama encouraged young people to consider training programs for skilled manufacturing work. “I promise you, folks can make a lot…

A delicate color palette and the combination of natural with unnatural organize the show: from the glazed earthenware pineapple to the pile of palm-frond slices stacked intermittently with cleaning pads.

These vegetables protest their innocence too strongly: obviously, they're hiding something.

Today, the famous cave is a traveling exhibition, now at Houston's Museum of Natural Science.

Houston artist Tony Day believes in freedom. Not bald-eagle-laser-etched-on-your-Ford-truck-‘Murica freedom, but freedom of expression. Day is a Yosemite Sam for the creative process.

In addition to the ten public sculptures throughout Dallas, ambitiously commissioned by the Nasher Sculpture Center in celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Nasher has also announced that it received…

Peña embraces the artist’s endemic dissatisfaction: each work is only the latest, less than perfect, attempt.

1. Charles Long: CATALIN and Pet Sounds The Contemporary Austin January 18 – April 20 On View: January 18, 2014 | 10 am – 5 pm Another of the Austin…