Glasstire

Seventy year old Kermit Oliver is a Texas legend, a self-described “reclusive” artist who kept his night shift job sorting mail at the Waco post office until this August.

The Houston Cinema Arts festival has become something I look forward to every year. Combing through the upcoming schedule, I have put together a preview of my exhausting (but not…

News broke yesterday that 1,500 artworks—paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka—were found in an old man’s Munich apartment in 2011. At least 300…

Come to think of it, it might not be a bad idea to skip the other Houston Cinema Arts Festival screenings and just journey through the Verges.

Elegance veers towards a kind of lyrical sentimentalism; beautiful, but dangerously close to a whirlpool of cliché.

Number 4. While it seems like that number is overwhelmingly small, this has already proven to be one of the most emotionally exhausting projects I have ever worked on.

Wild Style is not only the first hip hop movie, but I would argue it’s the only real hip hop movie.

Remember when Art League Houston was lame? Kelly Klaasmeyer says it's been getting better for the past decade and the current round of exhibitions is solid proof.

Rios' oddly beautiful, enigmatic videos feel like a personal reckoning with an immensely complex, globalized world.

Turrell charmed the crowd of art students, professors and other Turrell-groupies with sassy comments like “I make money selling blue sky and colored air.”

Despite a "stormcloud of jaded hesitation," Brian Fee has a close encounter with Austin's new Turrell Skyspace.

Out of all of the types illustrated, I, the Entitled North American Thrift-Store-Clad Screeching Loser, might be the most irritating of them all.

Pirates and Farmers is dense, delicious, and dripping with "limos, homos, bimbos" set in that "dazzled libido of shiny America"—Las Vegas.

It’s an everyman’s Citizen Kane set under Texas skies, interpreted through the alienation of a Sam Shepard play and the quiet longing and restrained hope of a Wim Wenders road movie. In other words, it is really, deeply good.

Dallas wins again, by presenting Dallas!

Made from humble materials, the exhibit has a suspenseful, Romantic quality as if Caspar David Friedrich had built sets for a Japanese horror movie.

The answer to the urgent problems of the world might not lie in yet another elegant, feel-bad-to-feel-good art installation.

Nasher XChange is as much about learning about Dallas as it is about seeing art.

Houston hosted the Zine Fest Houston just weekend before last, and now there are two upcoming book fairs in as many weeks so, apparently, some Texans still read, write, and…

How to say this? Oh, yes: ceramics make me lusty.