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By Bill Davenport on November 3, 2012
Last night’s inaugural Glasstire Texas Auction raised over $100,000 for Glasstire and Texas artists! Net proceeds were reportedly 90% higher than the old, silent-auction-and-outrageous-but-expensive-party style gala. Over $26,000 of the artwork proceeds will be distributed back to Texas artists. A crowd of supporters gathered at the Knoll Gallery at Pennzoil Place, nibbling canapes and absorbing [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged alejandro diaz, Glasstire, knoll gallery, rainey knudson, sara friedlander |
By Bill Davenport on September 24, 2012
Mark your calendar for Glasstire’s first annual Texas Auction! On Friday, November 2 from 6-9pm, Sara Friedlander a vice oresidnet at Christie’s, New York, will auction off a bucket of art from a truly outstanding collection of Texas contemporary artists to benefit the award-winning, decade-old Texas art website. The $100 a ticket event promises to [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged alejandro diaz, annette lawrence, Chris Sauter, David Politzer, Debra Barrera, erick swenson, glasstire texas auction, James Drake, Joe Mancuso, joey fauerso, Michael Bise, rainey knudson, Richard Patterson, Robyn O’Neil, Sharon Engelstein, tierney malone, Trenton Doyle Hancock |
By Sarah Fisch on February 6, 2012
Did you go to this thing? Houston’s Art Ball — aka Disaster Ball, a fundraiser for this here publication, it was. I went all the way from San Antonio. I was impressed by the breadth and inventiveness of the costumes, the tipsy friendliness of the crowd, and the funky hauteur of the Colombe D’Or. There [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged Apocalypse Ball, art auction, Bar F, Chupacabrona, cockroaches, costume party, gay bars, Kelly Klaasmeyer, La Palm d'Or, Michael Jackson tribute band, people dressed as Aztecs, rainey knudson, Sarah Fisch |
By GT contributors on January 3, 2012
Glasstire’s contributors suss out the season’s most promising shows. AUSTIN Evidence of Houdini’s Return Arthouse/AMOA January 4 – March 4, 2012 Arthouse and AMOA are officially conjoined twins and, as such, will be mounting an abstraction exhibition, Evidence of Houdini’s Return. While the title is slightly obscure (it’s also the title of a painting by [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged amoa, arthouse, Bill Davenport, Diana Al-Hadid, Facundo Argañaraz, J. Parker Valentine, katie geha, Katja Mater, lucia simek, rainey knudson, Sarah Fisch, spring preview texas, Sterling Allen, Visual Art Center |
By Bill Davenport on October 20, 2011
Enormous aisles, enormous booths, enormous art, all surrounded by a fortification of shipping containers: the TX Contemporary Fair promises already to be a whopper. From a warren of bare bones, mostly unpainted walls yesterday morning to a grid of gleaming art-filled cubicles today (with the occasional harried electrician scurrying around overhead). Be sure to visit [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Glasstire, rainey knudson, tx contemporary |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2011
Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 – January 22, 2012 Hey North Texas: if you missed Eric Zimmerman’s recent shows at the Austin Museum of Art, Art Palace Gallery, or the Southwest [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged AIDS, ALBANY, Ann Stautberg, Anne Wallace, annette lawrence, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, ashley hunt, austin, Austin contemporary art, AutoBody (Featuring North of South, Ballroom Marfa, BEAUMONT, Beili Liu, Beto Gonzales, Bill Davenport, Calatrava, Charlotte Smith, CHRISTEENE, Christina Rees, Chuck Ramirez, Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque, climate change, Communograph: Mapping Through Creative Action, Connections: Haley-Henman, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, dallas, dallas contemporary, Dan Havel, David Schalliol, David Schalliol: Isolated Building Series, David Shelton Gallery, David Taylor, Dean Ruck, Devon Dikeou, EL PASO, el paso museum of art, Elisa d’Arrigo, Ellen Frances Tuchman, eric zimmerman, ethel shipton, Fall Preview, Fifth Ward Jam, fort worth, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Frances Bagley, fucked up shit, Gabriel de la Mora, Gaffes and Informations: Kevin Tedora and Jeff Zilm, George R. Brown Convention Center, Haley-Henman Gallery, Hana Hillerova, HCC Central Fine Arts Gallery, HJ Bott, Houston, Houston Art Fairs.Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston Art League, Houston's Third Ward, Hung Liu, jason villegas, Jayne Lawrence: New Drawings and Sculpture, Jayne Lawrences, Jeff Zilm, Jennifer Rubell, Jesse Lott, John Adelman, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Jonathan Whitfill, josef helfenstein, Joshua Bienko, Kevin Tedora, Landmark Arts at Texas Tech University, laura mcphee, Laura McPhee: River of No Return, Lauren Levy, Leigh Anne Lester, libby black, Linda Ridgway, Linnea Glatt, Louise Bourgeois, LUBBOCK, lucia simek, MacDowell Artists Colony, Madeline O’Connor, Marco Maggi, Marfa, Marfa local punk band Solid Waste, margaret meehan, Mary McCleary, Mary mikel Stump, Mel Chin, Mel Chin: The Funk and Wag from A to Z, menil collection, Meredith Danluck, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Modern Ruin, Nasher Sculpture Center, New York musician John Carpenter, Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from The Victoria and Albert Museum Tyler Museum of Art, Obsessive Worlds, patty ortiz, Paul Booker, Perry House, Perry House: Movin On, peter doroshenko, Project Row Houses, queer states, rainey knudson, Ray Carrington, Rick Lowe, San Antonio, San Antonio contemporary art, San Marcos, Sarah Fisch, Sawzall-equipped beavers, shawn smith, Silver: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, SRO (Standing Room Only) Photography Gallery, Stephen Fox, Susie Rosmarin, texas contemporary art fair, Texas State, The Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, The Gallery at University of Texas at Arlington, the guadalupe gallery, The Nave Museum, The Old Jail Art Center, The River of No Return, The Southwest School of Art, Tom Orr, Tony Cragg, Tony Cragg: Seeing Things, TYLER, Vernon Fisher, Victor Zamudio-Taylor, VICTORIA, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Vincent Falsetta, Walter De Maria, Walter De Maria: Trilogies, West of East), Women and THeir WOrk, Working the Line: Photographs by David Taylor |
By Bill Davenport on July 25, 2011
Glasstire founder Rainey Knudson’s has been invited to blog on the NEA’s website; in her first post she explains the alarming decline among print journalists who have been, like dinosaurs, suffering a mass extinction over the past half-decade. Continuing her fatalistic thought into the future, she foretells the doom of even mildly discursive writing online: [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged Glasstire, milton glaser, NEA, online journalism, rainey knudson, texting |
By Rainey Knudson on May 27, 2011
The fantasy goes something like this: Most everyone was pleased with the clear, focused vision for the 2011 Texas Biennial. It was a brilliant success, with a tightly curated, single exhibition put together by a well-known curator from out of state. The show itself was held in a great institution in a city other than Austin, [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged arthouse, austin art, camh, Cowboys Stadium, fort worth modern, james magee, mary ellen carroll, mcnay, rainey knudson, Sarah Fisch, Texas Biennial, texas prize, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Virginia Rutledge |
By Glasstire on May 15, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Video | Tagged 10th anniversary, Christina Rees, david pagel, fort worth modern, michael galbreth, panel, Rachofsky House, rainey knudson, Robert Storr, TCU, toby kamps |
By Bill Davenport on May 4, 2011
This year, Glasstire turns 10, making it one of the oldest (and best) art websites in the country. We’re celebrating with a star-studded panel discussion at the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum featuring Robert Storr, David Pagel, Toby Kamps, Michael Galbreth and Christina Rees discussing what regionalism means to the art world of the 21st [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged david pagel panel, glasstire anniversart panel, glasstire fort worth modern, rainey knudson, toby kamps |