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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’...

https://glasstire.com/2016/01/30/lego-my-art/

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… ...

https://glasstire.com/2016/01/01/archive-painting-on-my-planetthe-top-ten-painters-in-houston/

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 publis...

https://glasstire.com/2015/12/28/archive-tire-iron-0-cropduster-hills-snyderchris-sauter/

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… The post DMA Crane Flip V...

https://glasstire.com/2015/04/26/dma-releases-crane-flip-video/

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… The post Helmreich New Dea...

https://glasstire.com/2015/04/25/helmreich-new-dean-of-fine-arts-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 post ...

https://glasstire.com/2015/04/25/two-cents-for-houstons-new-cultural-plan/

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 pi...

https://glasstire.com/2015/04/24/new-art-lands-in-the-woodlands/

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 post Bob ...

https://glasstire.com/2015/04/19/bob-wade-revamps-first-public-sculpture-in-waco/

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.… The po...

https://glasstire.com/2015/04/18/dallas-approves-stevie-ray-vaughan-statue-for-oak-cliff/

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 upp...

https://glasstire.com/2015/04/15/black-man-walking-in-houston-heights/