Saturday, 4 pm Lawndale Artist in Residence Domokos Benczedi (right) is asked to lower the volume on his unscheduled art fair performance by fair director Jeffrey Wainhouse. – B.D. To which Domokos replied: “MAN, WE DON’T TURN IT DOWN FOR ANYBODY!” Domokos then left the building. – K.K. Saturday, 1:24 pm These are [...]
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 and a variety of other fields to hang out at the Glasstire Gulf Coast Dive Bar. (Designed and built by Bill Davenport!) No panel discussions, [...]
Chad Maydwell‘s “music visualization” video Rêverie – Claude Debussy was one of the standouts in the 2012 Lawndale Big Show. Here’s his newest stop motion animation, Stardust – Fats Waller. Coverage of Houston artists has been made possible in part by the William A. Graham Fund.
Wherever we go in Texas, we always make time for the museum gift shops. Our museum shops reliably have some of the most fun, unique and affordable gifts (for yourself and others) to be found. We’ve rounded up some of the best of them this year. For more shopping delight, be sure to check our [...]
Last week we ran a Mad Lib contest during the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, promising fame and free Glasstire t-shirts to our winners. And here they are, selected by the staff under the criteria of “made us chuckle.” Thanks to all who participated; you all are winners in our book. But only the people who [...]
BLOG CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED!!! The Texas Contemporary Art Fair is open! The Glasstire staff will be live-blogging the fair through Sunday. Come by and see us at our booth, with Art Fair Mad Libs with exciting prizes (i.e. t-shirts) throughout the weekend. And, just like the Houston Fine Art Fair, we’ll be asking readers for their [...]
Glasstire readers did themselves proud in our Best and Worst of the Houston Fine Art Fair Contest. They hunted down art they liked and art they didn’t. They gave us multiple submissions and wrote wonderful (and wonderfully wicked) captions and they even invented their own categories. They also proved the inherent subjectivity of art. Some [...]
Hey Houston art fans: we’re having a contest for the Best and the Worst art in the Houston Fine Art Fair. Send your images and captions to info@glasstire.com and if we publish your picks, you’ll win a VIP pass to the Texas Contemporary Fair next month!! Winners will be posted anonymously, so let ‘er rip!
Glasstire audio slide show profiling Michael Bise. The artist talks about drawing from old movies, Disney vs. religion and why art should be hard.
Glasstire audio slide show profiling Rachel Hecker. The artist discusses her ephemera paintings as well as her current series of Jesus portraits – and explains how the hell she wound up in Houston.
Glasstire audio slideshow profiling sculptor, dancer, performer and seamster Daniel Adame. Photographs by Will van Overbeek.
What is it? The 2011 Glasstire Virtual Residency is a $2000 award toward the production of a web-based art project. The artist will retain all rights but gives Glasstire the right to link to and promote the project. The project may be hosted on Glasstire’s server or on the artist’s. The project must be completed [...]
On Saturday, May 7th, 2011, Glasstire and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presented a panel in celebration of our 10th anniversary. “Regionalism in the 21st Century” featured Robert Storr, dean of the Yale University School of Art and curator of the 2007 Venice Biennale; David Pagel, Los Angeles Times art critic and associate [...]
Kaneem Smith: Glasstire.com Artist Profile from Eric Jarvis on Vimeo.
Mark Schatz: Glasstire.com Artist Profile from Eric Jarvis on Vimeo.
What with the piles of shoddy painting clogging many art venues these days, it is a relief to see Darren Waterston’s current exhibit at Inman Gallery. It’s one of those rare instances when one needn’t wonder whether it’s oneself, or all those other people, who have got their heads so far up their asses that they [...]
The tagline says it all: "i love performance art, so i am going to vomit it all over you, while masturbating, covered in sugar." Every month at Notsuoh, Houston artist Julia Wallace has been rounding up a who’s who list of young Houston artists to get on stage and do their thing, and now she’s [...]
It’s not Texas, but it’s an idea whose time has come: the Art Handling Olympics are being held this Sunday in New York. For every artist and art handler who’s ever had to hang the same picture 5 times because the client couldn’t decide where to put it: this butt crack-baring drillfest is for you! [...]
Today we’re having one of those "Saving Private Ryan" moments when the secretary recognizes the dead soldier’s name on a letter and starts hunting for other letters with the same name: the NY artist R.H. Quaytman, who apparently is in the Whitney Biennial, is giving lectures on Tuesday 3/23 at the Fort Worth Modern; on [...]
The insane number of openings in Houston this week can only mean one thing: it’s Fotofest time! This year, the theme of the mega biennial is U.S. contemporary photography (which is much sexier than the previous two themes of "Water" and "China.") Lots of the shows look really good, so kudos to the Houston art [...]
