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…

The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft has signed on three new crew members: artist Miriam Mendoza is the new Education Coordinator, and will manage the center’s artist residency program. New…

Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum, always free to the public, just got freer. A $50,000 grant from the NEA in 2009 is bearing fruit in a new online database of…

A one-night event merging sweaty bodies, neo-ancestral ritual, and performance art is coming to Houston’s warehouse district Saturday. Called Soulstice, the event is organized by theater theorist Kevin Holden, artistic…