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Yesterday, the Art Center of Waco was shut down by engineers due to structural damage, reports the Waco Tribune-Herald. A beam between the basement and the first floor had dropped…

We’re sure the nation’s current administration would be thrilled to look out their office windows onto the National Mall and see a 45-foot tall, glowing, yoga-posed statue of a naked…

The Weird Homes Art Tour was founded in Austin in 2014 and expanded to Houston last year. The 2nd Annual Weird Homes Tour Houston takes place this Saturday, October 7,…

This coming weekend, October 6-8, hundreds of patrons, collectors, artists, and art lovers will descend on the small West Texas town of Marfa for the Chinati Foundation’s annual open house…

Apparently, the city of Grand Prairie (in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, population 175,396 according to the 2010 census) does not read Glasstire. At least they didn’t read or disagreed with…

If you’re in San Antonio and you’ve been looking for a reason to read books related to art, today is your lucky day — Clamp Light, the artist-run studio and…

Uncommon Objects, Austin’s go-to shop for funky antiques and other finds, has announced that it will be relocating due to the ever-rising rents on the South Congress strip. The shop,…

Pete Gershon, the Houston-based author and historian, will be giving a talk tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. at Deborah Colton Gallery in conjunction with Colton’s current show as well…

Glasstire is so excited by the resuscitation of Big Medium’s Texas Biennial after four years that there are a number of articles (do a search at glasstire.com) on its each…

For five years Dallas has been hearing about the development of an ambitious project called the Museum of Street Culture, and this coming Sunday, October 1, it will open its…

The City of San Antonio has announced its honorees for the third annual Distinction in the Arts awards, reports MySA.com. They are saxophonist Spot Barnett; visual artist César Martínez; Belinda…

Each year the the City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division hosts a big show on the main floors of Austin City Hall; it’s called the People’s Gallery Exhibition. For its…

Over the years, Glasstire has reported on Barack and Michelle Obama’s support for the arts, in such articles as “Michelle Obama Awards Blaffer’s YAAP,” “Obama Apologizes to UT Art History…

Valton Tyler, whose excellent recent retrospective at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth has been a critically acclaimed highlight of museum exhibitions in Texas in 2017,…

Each year, the Fine Arts Diversity Committee at the University of Texas (UT) accepts four to five proposals of guest artists they believed would further diversity and inclusion. Until now,…

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) announced today that its Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program is coming to San Antonio, Texas. Since 2007, the New York City program has connected…

The City of Sugar Land is hosting an Italian film festival, Umbria in Sugar Land, a multi-day event featuring Italian films from the Festival del Cinema Città di Spello ed…

The fifth iteration of projects for TEMPO, Austin’s Art in Public Places program featuring temporary outdoor artworks and installations by local artists, are now on view. Funded by Austin’s Hotel Occupancy Tax and…

The Dallas art spaces the MAC and The Cedars Union in the Cedars neighborhood have teamed up for an event called Bring Your Own Beamer Cedars (BYOB Cedars) on Saturday, October 14…

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) recently announced that its archive has been donated to the Woodson Research Center at the Fondren Library at Rice University. The collection includes interviews, exhibition materials,…