Next Sunday, August 7, The University Art Galleries Department at Texas A&M is hosting a free workshop on Paper Coil Basket Making for youth ages 8 – 14, facilitated by…

In a twist on the upsurge of multimedia approaches in contemporary art, the Houston Museum of Fine arts is retrofitting the classics to work together to create a new gallery…

Box 13’s Kathryn Kelley will be the first artist in residence at Houston’s Darke gallery this summer.  Kelley will have the gallery to use as a studio, along with a…

Film Salon, a new course offered by the MFAH’s Glassell School of Art this fall, will sample a broad swath of classic movies on Saturday afternoons and Monday nights, dissecting…

Itinerant, yet New York-based artist and writer Eric Zimmerman, an occasional Glasstire contributor, has been named editor of Fluent Collaborative’s journal  . . .might be good, replacing Wendy Vogel, who,…

A mosaic-covered caterpillar sculpture by Houston artist Reginald Adams and students at YES prep academy was moved into place Thursday, part of the caterpillar-turning butterfly theme of Buckboard Park as…

Arts philanthropist Nancy B. Hamon died Saturday at her home in Dallas. She was 92. Her gifts included a $20 million donation in 1988 to fund the 140,000-square-foot Nancy and…

Before the era of car bombs and IEDs, Icelandic-born sculptor Gudjon Bjarnason began using high explosives to create unorthodox shapes and forms in his work. He was looking for unexpected…

Jeanne Clair Van Ryzin of the Austin 360 blog announced  an encore performance of “The Trash Project,” choreographer Allison Orr’s weirdly successful 2009 spectacle using trash trucks and  City of…

Workshop Houston is bursting at the seams: the Scholar Shop, Beat Shop, Bike Shop, Chopper Shop, and Style Shop, each focused on nurturing students’ practical and creative skills, have grown…

Talento Bilingüe de Houston is launching Expressarte, a comprehensive theater program for youth and adults. The youth program offers classes in acting, voice, movement, and prop-making, make-up, costume, sound and…

With tropical storm Don bearing down on Corpus Christi, three hundred museum professionals are meeting with experts from the National Archives, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Harris and Galveston…

Austin artist Brian Willey and writer Thao Votang have announced their first event as Tiny Park, a new nomadic gallery sometimes residing at their house at 607 ½ Genard St.,…

From now until August 30th West Texas-based “multimedia conceptual/sound artist and environmental/social activist” Alyce Santoro is accepting commissions from musicians, designers, architects, collectors to produce personalized, custom-recorded editions of Sonic…

Houston’s Lawndale at Center has announced it’s latest crop of residents: Seth Mittag, David Politzer, and Anne J. Regan will each get nine months of studio space, $1500 for materials…

For half of my life I’ve lived in Oak Cliff — a now hip and cool, but once bad-repped and socially misunderstood place that I’ve long prized for its rogue-ish solitude…