The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will finally inaugurate its new Glassell School of Art building on Sunday, May 20. Visitors can view the Glassell, The Brown Foundation, Inc.…

We have been following Routine Fables, a yearlong project and collaboration between Houston-based artist Elaine Bradford and poet Sara Cress, since they began it in early 2017. For the project, the duo created…

"I like the idea of the baroque — this quiet overwhelming sensation."

It has long been rumored that a proper looking middle-aged woman entered the otherwise visitorless Cy Twombly Gallery in Houston’s Menil campus. When she seemed to be in the back…

As hour after hour of 'S. S. Hangover,' Ragnar Kjartansson’s Fusebox Festival performance, sailed across the placid lagoon at The Contemporary Austin at Laguna Gloria, I couldn’t help musing about the somewhat random yet enduring history of endurance performance art.

The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) in Beaumont announced today that it has received some notable and sizable art donations from two Texas-based art collectors. Collector John Gaston Fairey…

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Many artists supplement their income with day jobs as art teachers. And most artists have had influential art teachers. Since this is the beginning of “Teacher Appreciation Week,” we would…

In their cumulative, end-of-year exhibitions, Core Fellows at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston are often accused of showing work that is inscrutable and self-indulgently heady — an accusation that is sometimes fair, other times not.

In the past few years, Texas cities have been attracting wide-eyed art visitors with their various Yayoi Kusama shows and installations. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Dallas…

"If a woman artist isn't making work about being a woman then she's somehow failing the team, you know?"

(Ed. note: the following is from a series of micro-reviews/show recommendations Glasstire produces monthly for Local Houston Magazine.) You have to see these works in person to believe them. Argentinian artist Gustavo Díaz, these…

Maureen Penders and her photographs, for me, represent the multitudes that form an ambitious wave of Salvadoreñx/Salvadoran American art that both participates in and establishes a conversation for a Salvadoran American such as myself.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has announced the first 26 winners of the newly launched grant program “Support for Artists and Creative Individuals.” Applications were accepted from all artistic disciplines. Each…

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the winners of its annual artists awards: the 2018 Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Award, the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award, and…

The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) has been gifted fifty works by the late American photographer Brett Weston, reports Artforum. Son of photographer Edward Weston, Brett Weston’s career spanned…

The Dallas Museum of Art announced today: Beloved Dallas philanthropist Margaret McDermott died Thursday at the age of 106. Per the Dallas Morning News: “Museum officials say she was the largest…

When I recall the spaces and people I’ve been fortunate to forge relationships with in the Dallas art community, I realize I probably moved here at the perfect time. It…

Contemporary art enthusiasts Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman of the Manhattan-based FLAG Art Foundation have joined with Contemporary Austin trustee Suzanne Deal Booth to create a new art prize. “It seemed…

Christina Rees and Brandon Zach on a big venue you've never heard of, the history of the Houston drag scene, and the premiere of a long-awaited documentary on Chuck Ramirez.