The show is completely composed of drawings, but that’s where the similarities stop.
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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…
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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…
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Chill Out for Free With the Fort Worth Modern’s Summer Film Series
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentFor 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…
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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.…
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Peacock's devil is in her details, around the messy corporeal, family attachment, prosaic signs of middle-class existence, and troubled nostalgia.
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If I Can Just Get Off Of This L.A. Freeway Without Getting Killed Or Caught
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentThe 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…
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Rainey Knudson and guest Iva Kinnaird on French stereotypes, "legit” shows versus pop-up shows, and penises in art.
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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.
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DMA Curator Olivier Meslay Leaving for the Clark Art Institute
by Glasstireby Glasstire 1 commentThe 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…
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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…
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Artists who work in this maximalist vein know when a work is finished. It’s finished when there’s no more room to breathe.
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"She was the quintessential self-taught collector of self-taught artists."
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What if artists acted more like athletes?
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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…
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Now Streaming: The Getty’s Archive of Artists’ Oral Histories
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentThe 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…