ATX has a great new space called de stijl | PODIUM FOR ART. The gallery’s inaugural show, One / Sixth, is comprised of works by six black alumni of the University…

Today, July 23, from 12-8PM is the fifth annual Dallas Gallery Day! Founded in 2011 by Brian Gibb of The Public Trust as “East Dallas Gallery Day,” the event later went on to…

This past Wednesday, QFest kicked off their 20th annual program in Houston! As always, this year’s festival spans both traditional and non-traditional art venues across the city: Rice Media Center, the MFAH, the…

Allen manages to capture something essential about the state of Texas in his work, and not in a shit kicking, beer-swilling, dumbly cheeky sort of way.

Few people would think that the paintings of Frank Stella are danceable, but Kerry Kreiman of Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth begs to differ. For the 13th annual free summer Modern Dance…

Yesterday, Zine Fest Houston (ZFH) announced a new partnership with Lawndale Art Center for their 2016 self-published book and zine festival, set for November 19, 2016. In past years, ZFH hosted their program…

Coming soon to Glasstire, the legendary True Artist Tales comic strip by Scott Gilbert!! Gilbert produced the strip, a who’s who for the Houston art scene of the time, from…

Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on a legend in Marfa and where the cool people will keep cool this weekend.

The Walker Art Center puts on great exhibitions but, in 2012, its Internet Cat Video Festival broke attendance records. Since then, the Walker has recreated the festival annually. It even…

Three things attract me most to July’s work, and she hit on them in the Dallas lecture: her refusal to reduce her work to a specific medium or genre, her enigmatic and very flawed characters, and the element of interactivity with real people to activate her work.

As you’ve probably heard, Melania Trump lifted chunks of her speech at last night’s Republican National Convention from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech at the Democratic convention: Trump, who is being…

Intensive research began in 2011 on a study led by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Museum of…

This past April, Glasstire picked up the story that famous YBA artist and art mogul Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde-filled tanks were leaking poisonous gases. Studies conducted by a scientific research team examining Hirst’s 2012 Tate…

Buying and selling art with people you don’t know over an Instagram post only promotes the exchange of questionable art between questionable people with questionable motives.

Situated along the Medina River on San Antonio’s far South Side, the Land Heritage Institute (LHI) is a “living land museum,” preserving 1,200 acres for archaeological, cultural (there’s some contemporary…

In the aftermath of the Dallas police shootings last week, Gavin Delahunty, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, was searching for works in the museum’s collection that…

Do you believe in desensitization? Do you believe in the slippery slope?

On Saturday, July 23, the Chinati Foundation will open Robert Irwin’s long-awaited (and currently untitled) permanent installation. The opening weekend of pageantry and festivities includes dawn-to-dusk viewings of Irwin’s work, open…

There’s always clamor in our world. Once again I’m glad for the artists who cut through the noise, noisily.

The DoSeum, the children’s museum in San Antonio that opened in 2015 and has impressive attendance, has announced an artist-in-residency program that kicks in for its 2016-17 season. The DoSeum is primarily…