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Houston artist Jon Hopson is opening a new commercial gallery space in Houston this summer. Hello Project will be located within the venerable McMurtrey Gallery‘s former project and storage space.…

The annual meeting of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) is now underway in Dallas/Fort Worth. In between tours of area art collections, the country’s museum bosses are getting…

Dallas’ 500X Gallery is gearing up for its annual unjuried show, Hot and Sweaty 3: The Open Show, which will run June 14-June 21. It doesn’t seem like the $10…

Yesterday, The Guardian and a few arts journals reported on a tiff between performance artist Marina Abramović and conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll about Abramović’s upcoming show at London’s Serpentine…

Those who think selfies simply coincided with the widespread use of cell phones and the arrival of self-absorbed Millennials may want to track down a copy of Bunny Yeager’s 1964…

The Museum of the Llano Estacado on the campus of Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, TX, has announced plans to build a Jimmy Dean Museum. The museum will house memorabilia…

Massimo Vignelli died yesterday at his Manhattan home after a long illness, reports The New York Times. Vignelli is survived by his wife and business partner, Lella, as well as…

This weekend, come by our Fancy Pants tent at Free Press Summer Fest, the annual mega music festival at Eleanor Tinsley Park in Houston. Co-sponsored by KPRC, our tent will…

MARK FLOOD UPDATE: A couple of weeks ago, Glasstire reported that Houston artist Mark Flood is funny and, a few weeks earlier, we reported that Mark Flood knows how to…

Hi there, we’ve redesigned our events pages with a simpler layout and links to add events to your calendar. Click on your region to give it a spin: Houston DFW…

Only 18 months after opening, Dallas’ Perot Museum of Nature and Science has announced that it will be branding its 3D theater, which will now carry the National Geographic name…

Flames ripped through the Glasgow School of Art yesterday, beginning a little after noon as the building was filled with students installing works for their upcoming Degree Show. There are…

Watch out Houston, here comes Comicpalooza! Not to be confused with the homegrown Austin or Dallas versions of Comic-Con (and certainly not with the original, mega-convention in San Diego), these…

This has been the year of public art in Dallas, what with the massive Nasher XChange program that sited ten commissioned art works all over Dallas, the big to-do over…

The Contemporary Austin announced this week the appointment of a new Manager of Marketing and Public Relations, Nicole Chism Griffin. Griffin will be responsible for helping push the new identity…

Artist Zoe Leonard has won the Bucksbaum Award, a $100,000 prize granted to one of the participants in the Whitney Biennial for the last eight iterations of the show. In…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that it will release 400,000 digital images online, free to access for non-commercial use, without permission from the museum and without a fee.…

Goss-Michael Foundation’s Associate Director, Ariel Saldivar, has been named as one of the juror’s for the 2014 ArtPrize! Saldivar has been a key figure in making Dallas’ internationally-recognized GMF a more…

As we reported a couple weeks ago, Houston artist Mark Flood has founded an art fair, the Insider Art Fair, which is part real-life critique of the art fair model…

Former MFHA Core Fellow, founder of Houston’s Aurora Picture Show, and sometimes Glasstire writer, curator Andrea Grover, has been awarded the prestigious Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award for her upcoming show Radical…