As reported in the Houston Chronicle, anti-pipeline and drilling activists have announced a plan to establish three camps north of Big Bend National Park in the coming week. Two of the camps—one near…
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Today marks the 41st anniversary of Fluxus artist Ken Friedman’s performance work In One Year and Out the Other. The score for the piece is below: On New Year’s Eve, make a…
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There have been too many tragic deaths this year and when Robert Leo Hulseman died last week, it was almost overlooked by the news media. Hulseman was the inventor of…
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Many artists were ticked off when Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor acquired excusive rights to the world’s “blackest black,” reports artnet. Known as Vantablack, the pigment is so dark that…
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In 2014, Forbes magazine ranked Odessa, Texas as the third fastest-growing small city in the United States. Last year, the Odessa Council for Arts and Humanities crafted a master plan…
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The Houston Center for Photography (HCP) has announced the winners of its 2017 Fellowships, juried by Andy Adams of FlakFoto. Each winner will receive a $3,000 honorarium, a solo exhibition…
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Merriam-Webster, everyone’s go-to for dictionaries, thesauri, and all things reference-related, has recently announced that “surreal” is the 2016 Word of the Year. The company tracks how often online users look up…
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Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, known professionally as British pop sensation George Michael, died in his sleep yesterday, Christmas day, at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, at age 53, reports The New…
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Happy Holidays from all of us here at Glasstire!
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Do you need to get a last-minute holiday gift for that special someone who happens to have everything? Because they probably don’t have a genuine, 100% authentic painting that was created…
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A few weeks ago, artists and activists gathered at the corner of Houston and Lafayette streets in New York City for a demonstration called “Dear Ivanka,” appealing to the President-elect’s…
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Earlier this week, Nelly Furtado released a new music video for her song Pipe Dreams off her upcoming album The Ride. Shot in Dallas, the video was directed by Jake Elliott and edited…
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Austin has long pouted about its lack of arts coverage (as do many cities), but now Seth Orion Schwaiger of the Austin Chronicle (and Glasstire) really has a beef. He…
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Rex Koontz, the University of Houston (UH) School of Art director, is set to oversee a $102,000 project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), reports the Houston…
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It’s a good time to be a preparator in Texas. Right now, there are six preparator-like jobs available across the state. If you are in (or want to move to) San…
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Artists have been blurring the lines between art and life for quite some time now, often causing viewers to make connections between the socio-political world around us and everyday reality…
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The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth has finally landed a Moby-Dick of acquisitions: it has added a George Bellows painting to its collection. The Amon Carter…
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The Daily Mail reported on Thursday that “sources” had told them that President-elect Donald Trump had approached Stallone about a top arts-related position in his administration, perhaps as chairman of…
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It was announced recently that the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio has acquired a painting by San Antonio artist Vincent Valdez. The piece, titled The Strangest Fruit 9, from 2013, depicts the museum’s…
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Yesterday, The Idea Fund announced 12 new grantees that will receive funding throughout 2017. The jurors for this round were Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor at the Department of History of Art at…