In a ceremony officiated by National Book Critics Circle Winner Lawrence Weschler, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, the Art Guys will officially dedicate the tree from…

This Wednesday evening, the third annual Cinema Arts Festival Houston launches five days of film screenings, multimedia performances, video installations, and artist talks in venues around the city. CAFH is…

This just in from PR firm Giant Noise: “Sunglass Hut, the premier shopping location for high quality fashion and performance sunglasses, is pleased to announce the fourth annual Sunglass Hut…

Quilts and quilting are big business for Karoline (Karey) Bresenhan, founder and president of Quilts, Inc., which organizes three big public quilt shows, including the recently concluded International Quilt Festival…

Applications for artist projects for the upcoming edition of San Antonio’s street-art blowout, Luminaria, will go online on November 7. San Antonio’s adaptation of Paris’ “White Nights”, which happens on…

Ex-Texas artist Jacinda Russell, now teaching at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana recently had a portfolio of her work Nine Fake Cakes and Nine Bodies of Water published in…

Setting a high-water mark for art-dealer niceness, Moody Gallery has sent out an open letter asking for help for artist (and Glasstire contributor) Michael Bise, who, as you may have…

War/Photography: Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath the much anticipated mega-show that is scheduled to open next November (2012) in Houston, has announced a touring itinerary, making it one…

Thomas Feulmer and Christina Rees are at it again with Modern Ruin: Quick and Dirty, a second edition of their popular bank-intervention show last year, minus the economic crisis tie-in,…

According to Douglas Britt of the Houston Chronicle, the search for a new director for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is entering its final phase: the  field of candidates…

Houston’s  fledgling Center for Recycled Art, an educational nonprofit that brings crafty activities featuring re-purposed materials to schools, hospitals and daycare centers, has been granted nonprofit status. This means that…

Citing attendance of over 10,000, positive feedback from participating galleries, and solid sales, Texas Contemporary co-promoters Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause of Brooklyn-based artMRKT Productions were delighted with the outcome…

A generation after coming-out stories, AIDS and activism, and LGBT and transgender media celebrities, what does contemporary Queer art mean now?

Lawyers representing Chuck Close, Laddie John Dill, and the Estate of Robert Graham, among others have filed three class-action lawsuits aimed at getting the big auction houses and eBay to…

Why is it that small nonprofit boards get mired down in crises?  This workshop, offered by the Houston Arts Alliance and Presented by Sean Hammerle of The Rothko Chapel, helps…

Think of a newlywed couple moving in together for the first time. Writing the prenup was hard and planning the wedding was an emotional rollercoaster, but the work of synchronizing…

After months of backroom talks and explorations, the boards of the AMOA and Arthouse have declared the orgs united. The merger makes financial sense: the new entity will have an…