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Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for the best spring shows around the state. Think we missed something great? Post it in the comments section below! AUSTIN Alison Kuo: Colorful…

The Idea Fund has announced the ten Texas-based artists collectives with unusual projects for their 5th round of grants:  The Bridge Club – Art and Performance Collaborative (Huntsville); Erin Curtis…

Along with a new Director, a new space, a new Assistant Curator, and a new Director of External Affairs, venerable Houston alterna-space Diverseworks has just announced a new artist board.…

Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super smart curator and art historian…

After 20 years of love/hate in the “docks” warehouse north of downtown, Houston art space DiverseWorks is relocating to 4102 Fannin Street in the heart of midtown. This move, the…

On Saturday, July 28, a consortium of Houston arts orgs have organized the first ever Houston Arts Resource Fair, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the University of St.…

There’s been a lot of management turnover within top tier Texas museums over the past year. [Quick recap: Just 13 months ago, Simone Wicha replaced Ned Rifkin as Director of…

Houston’s universities are important incubators of artistic talent, with many artists in the city having taught at and/or graduated from either the University of Houston or Rice University. But the…

Are you the ultimate John Waters fan? Have you fantasized about rubbing shoulders with The Pope of Trash? If so, then thank your yucky stars because a very generous DiverseWorks…

It was too loud to talk to her at her at last weekend’s Glasstire/Fresh Arts Disaster Ball at the Colombe D’Or, so Diverseworks is inviting artists to meet and greet…

Elizabeth Dunbar, the former curator and associate director at Austin’s Arthouse before its conflation with the Austin Museum of Art, has been named Executive Director of Houston’s Diverseworks Artspace. During…

  DiverseWorks‘ State Fair feels like a version of “Now THAT’S What I Call Social Practice!” As you walk through, you are beckoned to participate in an idea barter booth,…

In a witty retort to the commercialism of the upcoming Houston art Fairs, Houston’s Diverseworks Art Space is planning State Fair, an exhibition/event that curator Diane barber describes as “sensory…

Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of fine art galleries to visit.…

After 14 years at Houston’s Diverseworks Art Space, Diane Barber will be stepping down  from her post as co-artistic director to pursue other projects after September 14, although she will…

Culturemap’s Steven Thomson questions whether the upscaling and combining of several of Houston’s important arts orgs into the new Independent Arts Collaborative building, now in the planning stages for a…

The Independent Arts Collaborative (what an oxymoron!) has made a down payment on is the former City of Houston planning and permits building at 3400 Main St. in Houston as…

From 6-8pm network, schmooze, wheedle, score face time, confab, kiss ass, or break balls at Diverseworks’ art-world Industry Night. Fun! fun! fun!  and Free! Don’t forget your promotional materials, hearty…

Allison Peters Quinn,  Director of Exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago will be in Houston Wednesday, and will discuss the Arts Ecologies in Houston and Chicago at…

The great skill of The Yes Men, the political activist artist duo of Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, lies in their capacity to deceive the deceivers by mimicking their dress,…