We have reported before on Glasstire on how hip and trendy enamel pins have become—some feature beloved moments from art history, others pay tribute to fallen pop icons, and others are just…

The new Houston Police Department Southwest Police Station needs some art, and the City of Houston has put out a call for artists to submit work to class up the…

A few weeks ago, conceptual and visual artist Mel Chin was honored by Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development with the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award, reports the…

Look, if you don’t get it, Bell basically tells us, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid. It just means you have no aesthetic sensibility.

Ashton Thornhill’s solo photography show, Texas Noir, is up at The Grace Museum in Abilene in conjunction with the big group show As Is: Rural Realism. Both exhibitions depict the…

Almost all Texas museums are open today (some close early, but check your local listings), although many galleries are not. If you are lucky enough to have the day off,…

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. – Ed. Today: Independence It’s the 4th of July. In the spirit of self-evidence, we’ve rounded up the American flag artworks…

Tony Fitzpatrick has earned a living as a boxer, bartender, construction worker and actor; his work feels like the visual equivalent of a Tom Waits record.

Austin-based artist Scott Proctor announced recently through a Kickstarter campaign that he plans to open East Side Pot Shop in the city’s east side. Serving as a ceramics studio, project space, and gallery, Proctor…

The seeds of the duo’s collaboration were planted four years ago when Hodge listened to Malone’s 90.1 KPFT radio show and heard the Juneteenth history in a segment about slavery in Texas that Malone created and narrated.

Well, most of us missed it. Trevor Noah’s Daily Show presented a New York pop-up exhibition (June 16-18) of the The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library. Based mainly on…

The City of Austin is trying to address skyrocketing rents, if not for artists, then at least for arts nonprofits. This month, Austin’s Cultural Arts Division announced the new Art Space Assistance Program…

Blackburn picks up the language of mechanized images, and folds it back into the deliberate and mindful practice of painting

Earlier this month, the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin announced that they received a $20,000 grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project to fund the preservation of their Goddess…

This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. – Ed. Today: Bullet Catching This week a couple seeking Youtube fame attempted a shooting stunt, and a man holding a…

The Holocaust Museum Houston recently announced plans to renovate and rebuild their campus as part of a $49.4 million expansion campaign. The current 21,000 square-foot building, which sits in Houston’s Midtown district, will be…

In 1938 Nelson Rockefeller commissioned twin works from Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse for his Manhattan penthouse, and this week it looks as though the two works will be reunited…

There is something jejune in this lack of reality presented in the style of realism.

The National Endowment for the Arts, in its second funding round for US cities for 2017, is helping with funding on an ongoing Austin initiative called Playable Austin. Playable Austin is…