"Glasstire Art Writing Prize"

Koraïchi's complex, illegible banners and the white magic they enact suggest the western perception of Islam today: without education and awareness, we are locked out of understanding.

Just as Marfa’s Stonehenge (artist Donald Judd’s untitled, half-mile-long series of concrete boxes) beautifully frames and fractures light, landscape, and viewers’ own meditations, so does the CineMarfa film festival with…

Kelly Klaasmeyer, editor of Glasstire for the past five years, has announced that she will be stepping down to pursue her own writing projects in early February. Klaasmeyer has overseen…

In conjunction with the fabulous Lawndale Art Center, Glasstire presents the Lawndale/Glasstire Barfly series at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair.  The Barfly series brings together interesting people from the arts…

Let’s talk about Art Fairs for a second. When I say Art Fair, most Glasstire readers probably think of big-convention center events with gallery-booths representing contemporary artists. Usually the work…

Of Soviet film theory and experimentation in Corpus Christi, Texas.

The Armory this year was solid. Pulse and Volta, on the other hand, felt mostly like the art world slinging the same hash we’ve been chowing down for the past…

Just as each town develops a distinctive character through its geography, population, and activities, each museum also builds a unique reputation. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has finessed…

This is the first in a series of articles exploring the museums of Texas, their unique characteristics, and the audiences they serve. Taken as a whole, the institutions throughout Texas…

En este ensayo, ganador del North Texas Glasstire Art Writing Prize del 2023, Blake Bathman escribe sobre una escultura del artista Jes Fan.

In this essay, which won the 2023 North Texas Glasstire Art Writing Prize, Blake Bathman writes about a sculpture by artist Jes Fan.

In this essay, which won the 2022 Central Texas Glasstire Art Writing Prize, Allison Marino writes about 16th century maps included in the "Relaciónes geográphicas."

A giant polymer concrete cabbage cannot tell you what it means; it can only be what it is.

Tooling down South Flores Street from one thrift store to another in April 2014, I passed what has become one of my favorite works of art in San Antonio.

We can be taught to understand the world in new ways, starting with how we understand art.

In order for watching movies to not feel like work, there has to exist the possibility of movies like Dune.

Glasstire presents the prizewinning entry of the inaugural Glasstire Art Writing Prize, which was open to college students in the North Texas region. Melanie Shi is a philosophy major at the University of North Texas in Denton. 

Brianna Glass, Contemporary Art Month San Antonio’s Critical Writing Fellow, interviews 2025 Perennial curator Marisa Sage about how she organized this year’s exhibition.

Ruben C. Cordova writes about the new arrangement of the Met's painting galleries, which includes improved lighting and acknowledges a more diverse representation of artists, subjects, and genres.

This coming week, The Menil Collection in Houston will host a conversation between its Senior Curator, Michelle White, and writer and curator Helen Molesworth.