Its time to pour yourself a cocktail, slather on some sunscreen, and break out that worn copy of Valley Of The Dolls. The art world, having lovingly adopted the academic…

Joining a half-dozen galleries that have settled near the intersection of Studewood and 11th St. in Houston’s Heights neighborhood over the past ten years, the new studio will host classes…

Early this morning, the building that houses Galerie Mado Chalvet, that purveyor of impressionist-style “masterpieces” in Houston’s Westheimer strip, caught fire, requiring the efforts of 50 Houston firefighters to arrest…

Culturemap’s Steven Thomson questions whether the upscaling and combining of several of Houston’s important arts orgs into the new Independent Arts Collaborative building, now in the planning stages for a…

Glasstire founder Rainey Knudson’s has been invited to blog on the NEA’s website; in her first post she explains the alarming decline among print journalists who have been, like dinosaurs,…

In doing research for an upcoming exhibition I couldn’t believe the amount  of contemporary art based on chandeliers out in the world. For Similar but Different #20 let me illuminate…

The Amon Carter is looking for photographs that depict museum visitors’ experiences, and is  offering a $100 first prize for the best snapshot in three age categories: under 12, ages…

Four $5000 scholarships for young artists and musicians went  to  Megan Wainwright and James “Austin” Allen of Dallas Booker T. Washington High School, Isaac Williams from Lancaster High School, and…

In a sad and troubled world, Port Aransas' imperfections in landscape and art make it of great comfort.

Who knew? Houston Community College Southeast, is looking for proposals for their Artist-in-Residence Program for Fall 2011. Including a performance or installation at the HCC SE campus, the artist chosen…

Sometime Glasstire blogger and ex-Texan Evan J. Garza has co-founded the Fire Island Artist Residency, the first artist-in-residence program exclusively for gay, lesbian bisexual and trans-gender artists (and non GLBT…

In my younger days, between my divorce in 1985 and my return from Baltimore in 2004, I moved many, many a time.  Each time I moved, I would cull through…

SketchCrawl, the latest of a new breed of trademarked  “let’s all be individuals together” events spawned by the instant international communications network, is coming to Houston (and everywhere else) on…

Lucian Freud, the man who has done more to renew the reputation of figure painting than any other, is dead at 88.  Known for his fleshy figures and subtle surrealism, …

Real Clear Arts applauds what it sees as the NEA’s back-door efforts to get public money into the hands of individual artists through residency programs, after their direct grants fell…

Appeals appear to be going nowhere in the copyright infringement lawsuit between photographer Patrick Cariou and wealthy appropriation artist Richard Prince and his even wealthier mega-dealer, Larry Gagosian. After Cariou…