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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has announced the first 26 winners of the newly launched grant program “Support for Artists and Creative Individuals.” Applications were accepted from all artistic disciplines. Each…

Christmas tree-related art — actual art — can be hard to find.

Glasstire staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal ”best lists” for 2017.

"If you are dumb and without talent going in you'll still be that way coming out. "

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on artists bringing their A-game, the pleasures of the flesh, and the tale behind Trenton Doyle Hancock's retrospective in Houston.

A show celebrating Talley Dunn Gallery and its artists. Featuring works by: Anila Quayyum Agha, Helen Altman, Jennifer Bartlett, David Bates, Tim Bavington, Natasha Bowdoin, Julie Bozzi, Margarita Cabrera, Dale Chihuly, Rachel…

Artadia, a New York-based non-profit that grants visual artists “unrestricted, merit-based awards,” recently announced that applications are now live for Houston’s 2017 Artadia Awards. Ultimately, after five artists are selected as finalists, two…

While March 8th is celebrated annually as International Women’s Day, this year’s observance is markedly different. The organizers of January’s Women’s March have declared March 8th “A Day Without a Woman”…

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the wisdom of a nonagenarian artist, the first show at the DMA we’ve been psyched about in a while, and the lure of artists being intentionally opaque.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the ups and downs of a decades-old art space, work that grows on you (or not), and one of the oddest paintings Rainey’s ever seen.

Spring Preview! Rainey Knudson, Brandon Zech, and Christina Rees run down our top picks in Texas for the coming months.

A show of works by 94-year-old Houston artist Chickie Brown. Brown started painting when she was 60. This exhibition is curated by Francesca Fuchs.

A group exhibition of works by Joe Goode, Walker Evans, Janet Fish, Francesca Fuchs, Rachel Hecker, and more.

Brandon Zech and guest host artist Amada Miller on houses as art galleries, a Masonic motorcycle gang, and clothes made from leftover painting scraps.

A group exhibition featuring works by Texas-based artists. The show pairs artworks (some real pieces, some forgotten sketches, some studio detritus, and more) and domestic goods to create a fire-sale of…

Tomorrow, May 8th, is Mother’s Day. If you have yet to get your mom a gift (and your spending time with her can be part of that), here are a few…

Houston gallery The Mariago Collective will be closing its doors this April. The space has been a part of the Houston art community for more than two years and has aimed through…

In celebration of the new year and Glasstire’s 15th Anniversary in 2016, we’ll be mining our archive of 3000+ features and republishing some old favorites. Here are two by Bill Davenport published days apart in 2014.

"If there’s not someone in a giant cockroach costume reading Kafka, I’ll be disappointed."

It has recently been announced that this October, the Galveston Arts Center will move back to its long-time home at 2127 Strand. This historic building has housed the center for…