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…

'Flow' is the latest site-specific, room-sized installment in the Korean-born Ko’s series 'Forces of Nature.'

Shortly after Dana Friis-Hansen left the Austin Museum of Art (now known as The Austin Contemporary The Contemporary Austin), where he spent nine years as executive director, he headed to…

“Rainbow in the Dark” was on heavy-metal band Dio’s first album Holy Diver. Released in 1983, “Rainbow in the Dark” was and is a mega-success with one strange music video. Ronnie James…

The Dallas Museum of Art went on the hunt for a new director last fall when it parted ways with Maxwell Anderson. Today it announced the appointment of Dr. Agustín Arteaga to…

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the fetishism of the American West, art versus design, and a DFW artist dealing with the history of police brutality.

Tonight (July 14), there’s an opening reception at the Houston Community College Gallery called “Cat/People 2016,” an exhibition of works by McAllen-based artist Carl Vestweber. The show is composed of…