Terry Allen

This week: Texas works on paper from two private collections in Albany, three Houston-based artists in Galveston, intricate paintings of domesticated plans in Fort Worth, and more.

Jon Revett reviews "Down in the Dirt: The Graphic Art of Terry Allen," a show of the artist's print works at the Museum of Texas Tech in Lubbock.

Barbara Purcell reviews Terry Allen's exhibition "MemWars" at the Blanton Museum of Art at UT Austin.

Artists Terry and Jo Harvey Allen will join their sons Buk-ka Allen and Bale Creek Allen for a series of virtual talks.

Every journey has a soundtrack, and 'Road Angel' lays down a linear blast of a hum and a thrum that fills up the corners of our big ol’ melancholy highway with that amber ache that makes you feel alive.

In Terry Allen’s world, late-night Lone Star-fueled joyrides down North Texas farm roads and small-time criminal escapades take on the power and significance of every great voyage, every triumph, and every retreat and defeat in the history of American civilization.

In addition to a number of openings, talks, and receptions around the state happening this weekend (check out our event listings), there are two performances tonight—one in Houston and one…

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on some art you might catch this Inauguration Day.

The legendary songwriter Guy Clark died last May and it turned out that, in his will, he requested that fellow songwriter and celebrated visual artist Terry Allen create a sculpture…

Allen manages to capture something essential about the state of Texas in his work, and not in a shit kicking, beer-swilling, dumbly cheeky sort of way.

The great singer-songwriter Guy Clark (b. Monihans, TX in 1941) died a month ago at age 74, and his longtime friend and Lubbock’s favorite son Terry Allen has been directed…

Bale Creek Allen is opening a new gallery this weekend in Austin (at 916 Springdale Road, Building 2), appropriately called Bale Creek Allen Gallery. Why do we have high hopes…

“It’s all a little bit funny, and… " “Dark. It’s terribly violent and very, very bloody.”

There have been many musicians who have come out of art school (the Beatles, the Talking Heads and many, many more), but it also works the other way around and,…

Visual artist and songwriter Terry Allen has a new CD out- titled “Bottom of the World,” his first musical release since “Salivation” in 1998. Andrew Dansby had a detailed track-by-track…

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…

Frederick Jackson Turner believed our American sense of manifest destiny was shaped by the frontier; and such is true within Texas, even today. It’s a big place. It’s dorky even…