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…

Artists who work in this maximalist vein know when a work is finished. It’s finished when there’s no more room to breathe.

"She was the quintessential self-taught collector of self-taught artists."

What if artists acted more like athletes?

Today, Sunday June 12, from 3-5pm, Artpace resident Andy Coolquitt will host Shadowy & Still, a site-specific installation by Sterling Allen. Allen’s show had been on view for only a day at Sala Diaz when…

The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles has amassed more than 1000 artists’ oral histories as video and audio recordings for its archive, and up until last week you could only access…

The San Antonio Museum of Art opens today “Highest Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the collection of Roberta and Richard Huber”. At 116 works – ranging from painting and…

The first issue of EXU, a full-color, tabloid-like magazine created by longtime Houston-based art writer Robert Boyd, is currently on sale for a measly $3! EXU is a tabloid. EXU is…

This past week, Houston’s Lawndale Art Center announced their newest crop of residents (who are all already based in Houston!): Melinda Laszczynski, Randi Long, and Sarah Welch. Through the program, each artist…

It says something about the anxiety level of our national moment that Ross's soothing, hypnotizing presence is a phenomenon again.

If you are the type of art patron that asks, “How much does it cost?” and “What’s in it for me?,” this game is for you! (By the way, these…

Yesterday Jalopnik’s Jason Torchinsky posted a perceptive and funny little breakdown of car headlight design; he coined the term “Late Cold War-Era Default Car Face,” and he made an entertaining graphic to go…

Today the Menil Collection announced a huge windfall gift of top-notch artworks: It’s a collection of 110 drawings from museum trustees Janie C. Lee and Louisa Stude Sarofim. These drawings are…

The shows: Matthew Ronay & Hilary Lloyd The venue: Blaffer Art Museum The city: Houston The date: June 3, 2016 Photographs by Sidney Mori            …

I shot this week’s Top Five video with Houston Airport System Curator Tommy Gregory. Before the shoot, he took me on a tour of the airport’s art collection. See a few of…