Recently Cheech Marin received a $9.7 million grant from the state of California to go towards completing a museum building to house the actor and comedian’s collection of Chicano art. Named “The Cheech…

Of course, if you want to really dream, you could imagine downtown Houston looking like Paris with the Seine running through it.

A comic by Paris, Texas-based artist John Forse.

The Galveston Artist Residency recently announced the three artists chosen for the 2018-2019 edition of its eleven-month residency program: Katrina Moorhead, Phil Peters, and Derick Whitson. Born in Northern Ireland and based in…

The University of Houston (UH) has announced that, under its newly developed strategic plan, it has named María C. Gaztambide as director and chief curator of its public art program. This…

Glasstire has long been a fan of The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s programming (in 2011, we celebrated our 10th anniversary with a panel discussion at the museum). Their…

The Lawndale Art Center in Houston has announced that it is partnering with Galveston-based artist Nick Barbee to create the Lawndale Lending Library, an art library that will be comprised of artworks included…

The plot twist is that the critique is less about humans exercising control of their environment, and more about the repercussions of chemical resistance that follows monoculture.

Update September 12, 2019: For the 2019 Writing Prize open call, please go here. Ed. note: Glasstire recently announced its new art writing prize, a competitive award designed to highlight emerging…

The show: Summer Studios 2018 The venue: Project Row Houses The city: Houston The date: August 11, 2018 Photographs by Maya Joubert                …

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on the last summer shows you can catch in Texas, which means group shows galore, and a few unexpected solo shows that feel more like fall.

Today, Zine Fest Houston (ZFH) opened registration for its 2018 event, set to take place on Saturday, November 17th from 12-6PM at Lawndale Art Center in Houston. This is the…

It was 1966. "My friend called me one day from San Antonio and said, 'Lonn, they are organizing a world’s fair in San Antonio and they are paying writers $10,000 a year. Get down here!'"

It’s that Idea Fund time of year again. Houston area (Harris, Galveston, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Waller, Chambers, Liberty, or Montgomery County) artists are eligible. The Idea Fund is a re-granting…

This week, beginning on Thursday, August 16th, Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery, a center in Atlanta, Georgia dedicated to preserving Tibetan culture, will be creating a sand mandala…

Here in Texas there are more art venues, art-school programs, and artists than ever before. And a dire lack of honest, engaging, readable critical writing about any of it.

This weekend, several women released statements on social media accusing Day for Night’s founder Omar Afra of sexual misconduct and assault. Two of the individuals who first made the claims, Veronica Ramos…

Artists throughout Latin America engaged in revolutionary DIY art as their own particular expressions of the conceptual art-think that zoomed around the continents in the 1960s.

I had never visited the Midland-Odessa part of Texas until a week ago, but that region looms large in the iconography of Texas.

On Thursday, August 16, a new mural in Houston will be unveiled in the Westchase District: It’s titled Harvey Heroes, and it’s by Houston-based artist Larry Crawford. Harvey Heroes is a 100-foot…