Featurette

"Who else can we get to hate us?"

"What’s the level of intoxication?" "Well, it was a tyranny of choice for them. They get to the table and there’s mimosas on one side and Bloody Marys on the other."

"If you get invited to a really fancy dinner, don't go buy a cheap suit. Wear your shitty art clothes, because they already know that you're poor."

"Just keep pushing the boundaries of the discipline of art."

"Well, I decided to have really nice cars rather than children."

Scenes from the crowd at this year's Art Car Parade in Houston.

Glasstire Founder Rainey Knudson interviews Hugh Forrest, Director of the South by Southwest Interactive Festival.

Rainey Knudson interviews the crowd at the opening of Ed Wilson: A Survey, at the Art League Houston. Visitors comment on Wilson's work, the Houston art scene, and the ongoing controversy.

If Olafur Eliason proposed Monet on Ice to the MFAH, it would have been done right. visitors would skate down a virtual frozen Seine, winding through the galleries past real paintings.

Bill and Rainey search their memories for an unscientific catalog of trends in Texas art in the past year, and argue about the vileness of Richard Phillips. (NSFW!)

Video: Ex-Texan Paul Slocum answers Glasstire's questions about post-internet art, Spirit Surfers, and his gallery's chapter in Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century.

Emilee Cooney, auction assistant at the Houston Center for Photography, talks about the behind-the-scenes choices and preparations that go into HCP's annual fundraiser.

So long Pollock! See you later Franz Kline! Art-sports spectacles are proliferating like NFL playoff slots!

Chinelo Ikejimba studied dance and interns at Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum.

She wasn't hired as a security guard, but ended up as project assistant for the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive at the MFAH's Bayou Bend Collection.

Who are these people? Where do they come from? What are they hoping to get? Videographer and animator Albert Sosa finds out in his new video series on artworld interns.

Critic Dave Hickey begins by dissing Glasstire, Texas, Houston, stupid liberals, and Rice University, then goes on to the futility of the NEA and alternative art institutions.

In which Dave points out the constraints of identity art at universities, galleries, museums and other bastions of hell.

In which Dave bemoans the administration of art history, the permanent reign of postminimalism, and bad social-content art. Heckler at 14:50!