Glasstire

The two big c's are warranted here: crepuscular and chiaroscuro. The miasma of not-quite-blacks encroaching upon vulnerable fauna resembles sludgy crude oil — a reminder of the 2010 BP spill and too many others in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.

Placed in a post-apocalyptic setting created with wallpaper, video and audio, Beshty's works read as a naive understanding of what it is to live in Mexico's landscape of violence.

The work of casualists and provisionalists like Walker is not Jerry Salz's “Neo-Mannerism.” These artists are, if anything, neo-modernist. This crop of new, young work in Dallas is a throwback to Giacometti, Guston, and Rothko.

The current show at the MFAH's Glassell School isn't all Political Economy 101.

The inaugural post in our new series highlighting art outside the art scene illuminates the 75 year old circus mural that inspired the Toys R Us giraffe, hidden under the ceiling of a bar in Midtown Houston.

Ed Cooper died unexpectedly early this week after an accidental fall in his home. He was 61. A wealth manager with LPL Financial by day, Cooper was an enthusiastic and…

The original “Leipzig School” was a group of artists behind the Iron Curtain, isolated from western trends. These five "New Leipzig School" artists are their students.

A good old-fashioned compare and contrast. This show marks a drastic change in O’Neil’s work.

The Linda Pace Foundation's new executive director talks to Glasstire about LPF's exhibition program, their collections, and their building plans.

Last week, Peruvian actor and environmental activist Richard Torres married a tree in Buenos Aires, Argentina, reports the Huffington Post. As part of Torres’s attempt to spread environmental awareness across…

Fischer makes his way though the massive Kelly retrospective and ends on a transcendent note. No more New York until spring, we promise!

Part three of Fischer's art-crammed tour of New York.

MFAH’s movie jukebox hosts a rarely-seen favorite of CAMH Director Bill Arning.

Portraits of little dogs, abstractions based on little dogs, photographs of paintings of little dogs, paintings quoting other paintings, with real-life painting of little dogs on top. It's like she's picking a scab.

To these five, clay was fallow ground, just waiting to get all plowed up. As Joan Miró said, "It is time to strike a blow."

Everyone should have seen the Gaga/Koons collaboration coming from miles away, but now it’s official. Last night, Lady Gaga and Jeff Koons hosted an “ArtRave” extravaganza party, showing work by…

From uptown to midtown ....my art odyssey continues with visits to El Museo del Barrio, the Whitney, and the MoMA.

Halloween was a fitting time to see exhibitions with a slightly creepy, psychological edge. I squeezed as much as I possibly could into just over three days.

Well-known street muralist Daniel Anguilu has branded Houston with his colorful, energetic pieces for years, but can they be re-packaged into gallery art?

The 26th Dallas Videofest is an opportunity to see the depth and breadth of what is happening globally in video art.