Legos in art museums are nothing new. Nathan Sawaya builds intricate, kitschy reproductions of famous historical artworks from Legos. His Art of the Brick exhibition has been touring the world’s
In celebration of the new year and Glasstire’s 15th Anniversary in 2016, we’ll be mining our archive of 3000+ features and republishing some old favorites. Here are two by Bill Davenport
In celebration of the new year and Glasstire’s 15th Anniversary in 2016, we’ll be mining our archive of 3000+ features and republishing some old favorites. Enjoy. – ed. Originally published Jan.
The Dallas Morning News has posted surveillance video showing the upending of a crane outside the museum on April 3, 2015 as it raised a section of a tent structure
Provost Nowell Donovan announced friday that Dr. Anne Helmreich will be the new Dean of Fine Arts at TCU in Fort Worth. Helmreich taught art and art history at TCU
With much fanfare, the City of Houston is currently writing a new arts and cultural plan, outlining recommendations for city government action on the arts for the future. It’s an
The Houston Chronicle reports on four new sculptures being installed at Hughes Landing, a new development in The Woodlands, developer George Mitchell’s suburban enclave north of Houston. The pieces are
Bob Wade, 72-year-old icon of roadside kitsch was in Waco earlier this month, and stopped to refurbish Funny Farm Family, his first large scale piece of public art, reports the
The Dallas Park Board approved a new statue honoring Dallas natives and blues brothers, Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan for Kiest Park in Oak Cliff, near the brothers’ childhood home.
Pedestrians are becoming more common along Studewood Street in the highly gentrified Houston Heights, especially around the intersection of 6th St. New bars, restaurants and a bike trail have upped
Lawndale Art Center has appointed Denise Furlough, currently Vice Chair of their Board of Directors, as Interim Executive Director. Furlough will begin serving in April, in advance of Executive Director
This year’s fair was fenced off by Marcin Dudek’s Border in Motion. It wasn’t too hard to get through. I was told that on opening night, the artist was tearing
The Art League Houston has announced it’s honorees for its 2015 artist, patron and lifetime achievement awards. Amy Blakemore is ALH’s artist of the year. Blakemore’s subtly curious snapshots, taken
On Monday, April 13, from 12:30-2PM, three Dallas museums have gotten together to re-stage Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s participatory artwork, Tatlin’s Whisper #6, which allows members of the general public
Erin Cluley has a great space only a block further off the beaten track from the warehouses which held WareWolfHaus and DB14 in West Dallas. They used to repair trucks
Joe Lopez, owner of Gallista Gallery and the attendant studio/gallery complex in San Antonio has finalized the sale of his property, a lynchpin of the South Flores Arts district and
Peter Simek, writing in D Magazine, describes the “lackadaisical display of orchestrated demolition” at Beefhaus in Dallas last Saturday, and wonders if the Whyte Window / Black Mirror / Black
John Atlas came to Houston with his parents at the age of three. The son of a doctor, at sixteen he experienced a vision about man and nature while scuba
At a ceremony on Saturday morning, March 28, the Menil collection formally began work on a new $40 million freestanding building for the Menil Drawing Institute. A plan for a
Houston artist Chasity Porter’s art-space-in-a-bus will be coming to Gallery Jatad in midtown Houston this weekend bearing works by Houston artist Anthony Suber, in conjunction with Patrick Renner’s artist talk
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