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Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s 14-acre home to collections of decorative art, paintings, and furniture, has gone full-on Broadway. Currently, the collection is offering an audio tour…

Most of the Glasstire staff watches Orange is the New Black and has been awaiting the show’s fourth season, which premiered last Friday. If you haven’t ever seen OITNB, now…

The Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF) may not take place until November, but in off-festival times HCAF also presents an “Artist’s Choice Film Series,” inviting visual, performing, and literary artists…

For the past year, the website Conflict of Interest has been covering the visual art and literary happenings of Austin. The site is cleverly named for the all-too-real fact that, to make…

The show is completely composed of drawings, but that’s where the similarities stop.

Mickey Rosmarin, philanthropist and founder of Tootsies Houston, died Friday of a heart attack in his Houston home. He was 63 years old. For more than 40 years, he was…

Tomorrow, June 19, is Father’s Day. If you have yet to get your dad a gift, fear not—museums and art spaces across Texas want to help you celebrate dad in…

For the second year, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is extending through the summer its Tuesday evening programming (its long-running acclaimed visiting-artist lecture series, organized by Terri Thornton, runs…

It’s turning out to be quite a year of loss and mourning. Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art will commemorate the lives of recently lost musicians in its upcoming SoundSpace event.…

Peacock's devil is in her details, around the messy corporeal, family attachment, prosaic signs of middle-class existence, and troubled nostalgia.

The great singer-songwriter Guy Clark (b. Monihans, TX in 1941) died a month ago at age 74, and his longtime friend and Lubbock’s favorite son Terry Allen has been directed…

Rainey Knudson and guest Iva Kinnaird on French stereotypes, "legit” shows versus pop-up shows, and penises in art.

On September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, but it wasn’t until June 19, 1865 that federal troops arrived in Galveston to take possession of the state and…

Last week, Glasstire’s Assistant Editor Brandon Zech posted an item about a resin statue of a gnome stolen from Florida’s Cornell Art Museum. This week, there are more gnomes in the news.…

The art galleries of San Marcos have held gallery walks/gallery nights for a while now, centered around the galleries in its downtown neighborhood. But in a recent bid to boost name recognition and consistency,…

Good news: now you don’t have to travel 5700 miles to Italy to see Michelangelo’s monumental frescos. Instead, you can go to Mexico City where Antonio Berumen has created a full-sized replica…

In a display of stammering unctuousness, the liberal film industry decided that a proper atonement for years of racist caricatures was to depict indigenous people as literal angels.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts has hired Dallas Museum of Art curator Olivier Meslay as its new director. Meslay will assume his new role this coming August and succeeds Michael…

East Texas native Robert Rauschenberg (whose cast glass tire sculptures inspired the name of this site) spent forty years at his home and studio on Captiva Island, Florida, which was…