"Glasstire Art Writing Prize"

Arianne Ohman has been awarded the 2024 Glasstire Central Texas Art Writing Prize for her essay, titled “The Unfinished Portrait of General Bonaparte and the Art of Incomplete Masterpieces.”

In this essay, which won Glasstire's 2024 Central Texas Art Writing Prize, Arianne Ohman writes about how an unfinished painting by Jacques-Louis David helped her see the beauty of imperfection.

Glasstire's staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for 2023.

From the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art: “We are pleased to present the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art’s 48th International Art Show. The first International was organized in 1973 by…

Leslie Moody Castro talks with Glasstire contributor Carris Adams about her thoughts on arts funding, how she started writing, and her own art.

Leslie Moody Castro interviews longtime Glasstire contributor and artist Colette Copeland, in the first of a series of conversations with our writers.

Blake Bathman, a recent graduate from the University of Texas at Dallas, is the recipient of the 2023 Glasstire North Texas Art Writing Prize.

Leslie Thompson writes about the history of Texas' post office murals, which were commissioned in the 1900s by the Works Progress Administration.

Ruben C. Cordova writes about the life and career of longtime Texas artist Octavio Medellin.

The Dallas Museum of Art kicks off its 32nd season of Arts & Letters Live, a literary and performing arts series, with a talk by New York magazine’s senior art critic, Jerry Saltz.

William Sarradet and Brandon Zech on the recent cancellation of the Guggenheim’s Hugo Boss Prize, and how Texas’ art prize status has been rising in recent years. “Texas is awash…

William Sarradet and Jessica Fuentes discuss the implications behind an AI-generated painting's recent art competition win.

The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation has announced the 2022 winners of the Rabkin Prize, including two Texas-based journalists.

Allison Marino, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, is the recipient of the 2022 Glasstire Central Texas Art Writing Prize.

Moody Castro is neither a stranger to the Texas art scene nor to Glasstire — she has been writing for the publication for 11 years.

The quality of the work from the last two years of van Gogh’s life is astonishing, as is the speed with which he painted these pictures. I enthusiastically recommend this exhibition to anyone who appreciates art.

Here's a short list of publications that stood out to our staff in 2021. 

Ruben Cordova on how San Antonio artist Adan Hernandez created the unique style dubbed "Chicano noir."

Today Glasstire is announcing that the publication and its longtime Editor-in-Chief, Christina Rees, have parted ways.

The Houston-based journal's annual prize honors writing in the categories of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.