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Disasters will continue to route the path of history, and Texas will continue to keep up. As you enjoy your holiday, here are some observations from our calendar’s perspective.

How do Texas cities fund arts and culture when the current model for doing so has collapsed in the face of a pandemic?

In spite of the aftershocks of Hurricane Harvey and a global pandemic, the concentrated art community in this coastal town has managed to keep the momentum of culture moving forward.

Decades ago, I accidentally began collecting stories and images of Texans who carried out unusual activities in the past. I came to see the individuals as outsider artists who engaged in performance and conceptual art. Here are some of their stories.

Cordova's final installment in the series covers works by Reyes that address the struggle for political representation and social services in Texas, reviews the “Southern Strategy” and race, and concludes with Trump and the 2020 election.

"I tend to think one can decipher how committed an artist is by their website."

Neil Fauerso and guest Michael Menchaca on some Texas exhibitions you can still catch before they close, including Menchaca's show at the the McNay, and a show of Rembrandt etchings in a place you haven't heard about.

2017 was a boon year for Glasstire. Here are the most widely read (and in some cases, commented on) pieces we've run over the past 12 months.

Lately it seems the charges of offensiveness are flying around faster than a frail 80-year-old burning at the stake in colonial Massachusetts.

Newly restored 1975 Texas art documentary Jackelope screens at the MFAH with filmmaker Ken Harrison and guest artists in attendance.

Atkins' work hooks us, and our hunger to realize his pattern of communication is engaged like a heat-seeking missile.

Peter Lucas previews an upcoming Houston screening of historic and contemporary experimental films co-presented by DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture Show.

The human linguistic system and the sensory-motor systems used to construct art objects have been inseparable in the human being since the Great Leap Forward.

For nearly four decades, Tom Orr has brought an unending curiosity, commitment, and conviction to making art that speaks to its necessity.

JooYoung Choi's "The Cosmic Womb" has been growing in complexity since 2012.

There are really two ways an artist can assault an art space, and there are about four common reasons for doing it. Some are better than others.

Most artists move through obsessive cycles in which we wrap our thoughts too tightly around an idea and suddenly find ourselves in a place we never intended to go and might not mean to stay.

Seeing an exhibition of Fogel's work in person was like meeting someone I’ve been unfairly kept from for all my years of looking at art.

This week's column is a podcast of me urging you to watch Bruce Conner's 1966 experimental short film Breakway.

At some point in his long, productive life the artist Frank Reaugh (1860-1945) appraised his youthful self as “the most awkward fellow you ever saw.” A 1924 photograph of Reaugh…