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Sally Glass, newly-minted MFA and founder of semigloss Magazine, the quarterly art publication, is moving from Dallas to Houston by the end of this summer. A Dallas native, Glass started…

Sometime Glasstire contributor Seth Orion Schwaiger defined an emerging Austin wave in social media art in Friday’s Austin Chronicle. Schwaiger cites a spate of recent shows that exploit Twitter posts,…

Liliana Bloch, owner of her eponymous gallery (carved out of the front section of the Public Trust) in Dallas’ Deep Ellum neighborhood, last week reported that part of artist Ann…

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation has announced the latest winners of its biennial award, which comes with an unrestricted check for $20,000. Every two years, artists from throughout the US…

East Dallas Gallery Day is today from noon to 8 pm! Returning for its 3rd year to kick off the summer for the galleries in Downtown, Deep Ellum and Expo…

On Friday morning, June 13, the man many people blame for the intractable nature of the Museum Tower debacle, was ousted from his post as top administrator of the Dallas…

The New York arts nonprofit Creative Time is getting a lot of positive press right now for its current installation of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory,…

A Romanian court has sentenced the hacker known as “Guccifer” to four years in jail, reports Reuters. The former cab driver, whose real name is Marcel Lazar Lehel, has been…

By SARAH M. VASQUEZ of the Big Bend Sentinel (used by permission) MARFA – Ballroom Marfa’s much-anticipated drive-in theater project has been “indefinitely deferred,” or postponed. In a letter to…

The Houston Fringe Festival is busy organizing its upcoming carnival of chaos, now in its seventh year. The five-day event (September 24-28) features local and international performers and artists who…

Detroit may finally be close to saving its city’s art collection, held by the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). The nation’s three major automakers, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, announced…

Last week the Austin Critics’ Table held their informal and highly irreverent annual awards ceremony.  With their fair share of salty language and off-the-cuff humor, writers from The Austin Chronicle…

According to a lengthy report from city auditors, South Texas’ International Museum of Art and Science (IMAS) has some serious issues with governance, ethically questionable behavior, and protection of its…

Recently, the website PolicyMic published a list of “15 Cities for Creative 20-Somethings That Aren’t New York or Los Angeles” and Abby Koenig took to her Houston Press blog to…

Even Houstonians who have spent the past month watching that giant mural go up in Midtown (off Fannin, behind the five-story building at 2800 San Jacinto) may have skipped the…

In honor of the 70th anniversary of D-Day, we post these photographs by architect-turned-prize-winning-photographer Donald Weber, part of his series-in-progress War Sand. Last year, Weber visited the beaches at Normandy…

Tomorrow evening at 7 pm, the Menil Collection will host an “Illustrated Lecture & Book Signing” with Houston-born artist Mel Chin, fresh from his retrospective at the New Orleans Museum…

Tonight is the opening of the second annual X Marks the Art exhibition in downtown San Antonio. An initiative of Public Art San Antonio (PASA), the city’s public art program,…

One of the most famously weird stories in art history is the tale of Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 psychotic episode during which he chopped off his own ear and presented…

Kara Walker’s new installation, A Subtlety, located in Brooklyn’s abandoned Domino Sugar factory, is drawing large crowds and provoking some pretty interesting discussions. Its longer title, A Subtlety or the…