The Galveston Arts Center (GAC) has announced that it has appointed Lisa Shaw to take over as executive director. She succeeds the tenure of Interim Executive Director Joanna Bremer, who…

In its last session, the Texas legislature passed House Bill (HB) 85, which prohibited the State of Texas from doing business with any company that boycotts Israel. The Dallas Morning News and…

  American author and journalist Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. died in New York City on Monday, May 14 at the age of 88, reports ARTnews and many other publications. Wolfe…

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will host two upcoming traveling film festivals: On Saturday May 26 it’ll showcase the NY Cat Film Festival, and the following weekend, on Saturday,…

Sometimes the technology seduces the viewer, providing a stimulating “eye candy” visual and immersive experience, but one that's conceptually vacuous. The 'Array' artists exceeded my expectations.

In a “Letter to the Community,” Lawndale Art Center’s Executive Director Stephanie Mitchell explains a number of changes taking place at the organization. They are excited about Lawndale’s new website…

“Texas painters and sculptors saw themselves as avant-garde artists in the pursuit of identifying a truly American art."

90-plus-degree days have returned to Texas, and that can mean only one thing: it’s time for 500X’s annual Hot and Sweaty open show. The Dallas-based artist-run gallery and studio space holds this…

So often in the art world, there are organizational departures, mix-ups, and mishaps amid rumors and innuendo. Richard Graber, Director of Grants and Capacity Building at the Houston Arts Alliance…

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the current installation of the U.S.-museum, solo debut of Mexico-City-based artist Minerva Cuevas. The immersive mural, titled Fine Lands, fills the museum’s central thoroughfare,…

(Ed. note: the following is from a series of micro-reviews/show recommendations Glasstire produces monthly for Local Houston Magazine.) Delilah Montoya’s body of work merges two things that are sometimes thought of as disparate: art…

The hyper-detail, size, and symbolism of the show's centerpiece are overwhelming. It is simply the most beautiful and impressive piece I’ve seen this year.

This is deliberate order and staccato, not like a map, but rather like the rhythm of a day: the ebb and flow of hunger, thirst, fatigue.

We’ve been following the ongoing saga of Hobby Lobby, in which the arts-and-crafts monolith and its owners, the Green family, were implicated in a United States civil complaint alleging that the family wrongfully…

Austin’s praiseworthy ICOSA Collective, about two years into its life and about 20 members strong, is being kicked out of its original space adjacent to Pump Project (the entire building…

One of 60 projects selected nationwide, Houston’s Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation (FWCRC) has received a $100,000 National Creative Placemaking Grant, reports Patch.com. This “placemaking” is expected to involve local…

On Saturday, May 19, Dallas’ annual Oak Cliff Visual SpeedBump Art Tour returns, for which “Oak Cliff artists open their studios, clubhouses, pens and dens.” This is a one-day self-guided…

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a new artist-run space in Austin, giant pink bunnies in Odessa, and a droll rethink of Wile E. Coyote’s desert landscape.

This week, the Rockport Center for the Arts’ former home is being razed due to damages resulting from Hurricane Harvey. There are still many places throughout coastal South Texas that…

There’s currently a campaign to fund and create in Florence, Texas a 20-foot tall limestone monument “…inscribed with the wise words of Michelle McNamara, author and late wife of comedian…