Houston artists Brian Mahanay and Julie Birsinger were two of seventeen a teams who sculpted hotel rooms from ice in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, just north of the Arctic circle at ICEHOTEL,…

Today’s Dallas Morning News has a feature on James G. Pepper, a Dallas administrative assistant who is inscribing an illuminated King James Bible in his spare time. The 23-year old…

The University of Texas’ Videogame Archive was begun three years ago, and the center has amassed more than 1,500 video games and about 200 linear feet of design documents, game…

The University of Texas’ Videogame Archive was begun three years ago, and the center has amassed more than 1,500 video games and about 200 linear feet of design documents, game…

From Jackson, Mississippi: Labotanica and They, Who Sound present drummer Alvin Fielder in quartet with: David Dove (trombone) Jason Jackson (alto saxophone) Damon Smith (double bass). Fielder has played with…

Merry subversive Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours! I apologize to those of you who do not celebrate the holiday. I hope this will still entertain.…

The 1930s marked a complex intersection of events in America. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the ensuing collapse of the American economy set the course for what was…

The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY has appointed Andrea Grover, founder of Houston’s Aurora Picture Show, as Associate Curator, picking off another cherry from the top of the Texas…

Plans and a drawing for the upcoming "Fifth Ward Jam" house-moving project by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck are online at the HAA’s website. The team plans to carve a…

In today’s Wall St. Journal, Willard Spiegelman rhapsodizes about the Interfaith Peace Chapel in Dallas, a curiously up-to date cement cave that was Philip Johnson’s last project before his death.…

The Houston Arts Alliance is developing an "internationally recognized" temporary art program, just like Austin’s! HAA’s head of Civic Art & Design, Matthew Lennon, will direct the initiative,  described in…

Kaneem Smith: Glasstire.com Artist Profile from Eric Jarvis on Vimeo.

There are number of shows up in the Design District that feature small, very affordable sculpture. I wondered at first about a nascent trend. Then of course I realized that…

Glasstire and Fresh Arts coalition are pre-viewing our upcoming silent auction online, allowing holiday-minded arts supporters to make a "preemptive strike and snag an artwork without all that competitive bidding."…

Need some peace and quiet around the holidays?  Or perhaps a place to send out-of-town family and friends?  Or maybe a last-minute gift?  The Rothko Chapel will be open on…

  The Marfa Book Company’s spare, beautiful installation of works on paper by Ian Hamilton Finlay—a Scottish poet, writer, artist and noted gardener who died in 2006—creates an environment that encourages…

Like Glasstire, the Dallas Morning News is struggling to corral substantive info this holiday season; today they ran a piece about the Devil’s Rope Museum in McClean,TX. Located in a…

The most complete skeleton of  the pre-dinosaur Dimetrodon to be unearthed in 100 years is being uncovered in North Texas. Favored among kids for its enormous spinal fin and steak-knife…

Few things are more universally maligned by artists than a canvas full of bluebonnets. I admit I have been guilty of disparaging the shameless embrace of bluebonnet landscape paintings, prominently…

After and eight-year restoration project, the famed leaning tower of Pisa is somewhat straighter, is less likely to topple over, and is a lot cleaner. Engineers managed to straighten it…