The Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth has gifted itself with Mary Cassatt’s Standing Woman, Holding a Fan (1878-79), a transitional work in distemper (chalk-and-glue paint used for architectural decoration)…

SMU’s Meadows Museum  is looking for North Texas artists with ten years of professional exhibitions and a proven track record as a community advocate for the visual arts for their…

In addition to Glasstire’s erratic artfair coverage, varying with the signal strength of the GRB’s wi-fi jamming, a number of other people had something to say about the first contemporary…

Houston art car apostle Rebecca Bass is in Chattanooga, Tennessee this weekend, leading a workshop for educators, artists and the curious as they transform a 1974 Toyota Chinook Camper into…

Look, these are all gonna be iPhone photos. I’m sorry about that. Soon as I can, I plan to purchase a real camera, but meanwhile, this is what I’ve got…

  Aaron Forland, San Antonio visual artist, SA’s unofficial DIY/underground/punk rock historian and creator of the “Keep San Antonio Lame” meme, has been and continues to extol the paradoxical and…

Organized on October 16, presented on the 17th, the Occupy Houston Art Show  was an outdoor, all day event, and featuring live art, music, and fun provided by “anyone interested…

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced that Dr. Maxwell L. Anderson has been appointed as its new Eugene McDermott Director. Anderson is currently Director and CEO of the Indianapolis…

Lucky has been anything but. A 46-year resident of the San Antonio Zoo, the sixtyish, female elephant became a cause célèbre for animal rights activists after her longtime companion Alport…

Enormous aisles, enormous booths, enormous art, all surrounded by a fortification of shipping containers: the TX Contemporary Fair promises already to be a whopper. From a warren of bare bones,…

Crystal Lara Andrus, an art teacher at Morton Ranch Junior High School in Katy, TX was fired Wednesday after an incident in which she, enraged over students rowdiness,  allegedly threw…

“Doga,” yoga with your dog, a “Pawcasso Photo Shoot”, and the “Dog Day Afternoon” guide to the DMA’s Collections are just three of the activities at the upcoming Dallas Arts…

Sources confirm the booking of Pepe, the Glasstire Pony for the opening of the TX Contemporary Art fair this Thursday evening. Although Pepe, (or Trigger, we’re not sure which) is…

After six months of non-stop work during the longest and hottest summer in decades, the intrepid fishermen/trans-media artists at Shrimp Boat Projects were finally able to launch their refitted vessel,…

Recent confidential email between Glasstire founder Rainy Knudson and  Heather Wagner of Juice Consulting, the PR firm handling the TX Contemporary Art Fair, reveals that the “Glasstire Pony,” as it…

Speaking of art fairs in secondary cities, Houston’s Texas Gallery was picked out in a bit in the Huffington Post by Matt Gleason as one of the recent Art Platform…