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First, the good news about the Houston Fine Art Fair: Robert Pruitt was selected as 2013 Artist of the Year. Otherwise, HFAF came back for its third year—but it did so without some major Houston galleries and some early supporters.

Michael Bise’s adversity has produced a suite of drawings that offer us an alternative and unblinking view of the experience of death, illness, and our medical system. Luckily for us, he is brave and skillful enough to share it.

Tuymans' heavy, content-driven art is also compelling. Theory-addled MFA students: go see how it ought to be done.

Poised between activism and documentary, Frazier's photographs at the CAMH compel witnessing, not just watching.

On Wednesday night, Peter Doroshenko, director of the Dallas Contemporary, talked to approximately forty eager art world types. "Anything is possible," he said, "You are the only roadblock."

Some oldies, some goodies, and some others at Big Medium.

I'm afraid it's more group shows, but maybe the next big trawl will haul in some treasure.

The big problem with a lot of computer art people is that they don't understand aesthetics; they just have shitty taste. I'm pro-beauty. I'm on the Dave Hickey team.

Across the globe, there is a sameness to art.

If the 2011 Biennial was, as some claimed, too slick and shiny, the massed works by the 2013 juried artists counter with a rumbling texture reminiscent of worsted wool.

First generation conceptual artist Tom Marioni talks about relational aesthetics, beer as America's sacramental wine, and the cyclical nature of fame in our latest video.

Not-to-miss shows for the second week of the fall art season.

Burlesque fans, historians, and practitioners will find much to wax nostalgic about in these vintage pictures, but they only succeed as art when reflected in the intense psychological mirror of the works by Allen and Walton.

As the dog days wane, Glasstire contributors eye the coming artworld onslaught: fill your gas tank, charge your phone and bring plenty of drinking water.

Some weeks, in the sun-beat end of the Texas summer, you can count really good shows on one hand, with some fingers left over to scratch. But this week, the drought is over.

Despite their busy magnificence, the drawings' humble, work-for-hire sensibility perfectly matches their impersonal subject matter.

The exhibition lies in two explorations which converge in the space itself. The physical space acts as a metaphor for the process that an artist goes through while projecting themselves…

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