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Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas.

For last week’s 2026 Spring Preview picks, please go here.

1. Chris Wolston: Profile in Ecstasy
Dallas Contemporary
November 7, 2025 – February 1, 2026

From Dallas Contemporary:

“Ecstasy, as curator Glenn Adamson observes, is a peculiar and provocative word — referring at once to a drug, transcendent religious experience, and, etymologically, to being ‘out of oneself.’ It’s an unexpected but fitting lens for Wolston’s work, which expands design beyond the physical into the imaginative, expressive, and ecstatic. Installed at Dallas Contemporary across four catwalks reminiscent of a fashion show or drag ball, Wolston’s pieces are accompanied by his husband and filmmaker David Sierra’s video works, which pulse with movement and light. At the center stands a radiant portrait of pop icon Grace Jones, envisioned as an illuminated fountain rippling with water.

Wolston makes design perform in unique ways, transforming function into fantasy, utility into expression. His practice spans woven rattan furniture that reimagines figural sculpture; monumental terracotta forms carved and fired to permanence; lightweight aluminum cast from foam and anodized in reflective hues; bronze furniture treated with rainbow patinas; and handwoven carpets made in Marrakech, each alive with improvisation and energy. In Profile in Ecstasy, these elements coalesce into a richly layered environment where design becomes a vehicle for imagination, queer desire, and transformation. The exhibition revels in the wild, seductive force of nature and the body, drawing on Art Nouveau, pre-Columbian symbolism, and architectural excess.”

2. Jaden McCreary: Growing Pains
Pencil on Paper Gallery (Dallas)
January 10 – January 31, 2026

From Pencil on Paper Gallery and Jaden McCreary:

“My recent work moves through the quiet terrain of subconscious thought; those impressions that linger, persistent and unspoken. Growing Pains becomes a map of these inner landscapes. Figures emerge fragmented, present yet dissolving, suspended in a liminal state: both self and symbol, grounded and vanishing. Against raw, natural environments, they mirror the architecture of my inner world, a world negotiating belief, autonomy, and the weight of taking up space.”

3. Scrappy: By Any Means Necessary
MotherShip Studios (San Marcos)
December 13, 2025 – February 7, 2026

From MotherShip Studios:

“Scrappy: By Any Means Necessary is curated by Jennifer Moore, featuring artists Hollie Brown, Ellen Crofts, Lisa Guevara, Julia Hungerford, John Le, Elisa Lendvay, Niloofar Mofrad, Hilary Nelson, Gyan Shrosbree, Jim Shrosbree, and Narong Tintamusik.

A scrappy individual will accomplish their objective by any means necessary with the resources at hand. This exhibition is a celebration of the many ways this quality of scrappiness might manifest in the artist’s studio. The word can be used pejoratively to describe an end product lacking polish and finesse — where the preferred final form would rebuke evidence of its process and the hand that shaped it, but risks sacrificing meaning and warmth. Artists embrace scrappiness for a multitude of reasons: imbued meaning, to hasten or simplify their process, to access the improvisational spirit of readymade and autoconstrucción, or as an indexical shorthand for the body. They tip their paper hats to Duchamp, Braque, Stockholder, Cruz, Villegas and Lucas, but also to the history of craft (quilting, scrapbooking and papier-mâché).”

4. June Woest: Weather Inside Out
Archway Gallery (Houston)
January 3 – February 6, 2026

From Archway Gallery:

“Weather Inside Out captures the interplay between photography, sculpture, and AI, exploring Woest’s experiences with the unpredictable nature of the weather by challenging the notion that we are helpless against it. Her works are an invitation to embrace change and find comfort in the unpredictable. The artist begins each work with a clay sculpture, created from a plaster mold, which she describes as an ‘act of intentional repetition that offers a sense of control and predictability.’ Then she documents these objects using photography, focusing on their form and the nuances of light and shadow, before handing over the work to AI with a single evocative command: ‘Fix the weather.’

Woest’s final prints capture the intersection between solid, tangible objects and ethereal, digitally altered environments, ‘a space,’ she says, ‘where we can hope to manipulate our circumstances for the better — not to gain power but to simply move with more freedom and purpose.’ For Woest, clay and AI are metaphors for human resilience and adaptability, a playful nod to a deeply human desire for control over our surroundings and lives — and the internal, emotional ‘weather’ we navigate.”

5. Chris Ireland: Dead Letter Office
Angelica College (Lufkin)
January 11 – February 10, 2026

From Angelina College:

“Cleveland, Ohio native Chris Ireland will share his current research based on representations of family and personal experience through the vernacular of photography. As Ireland says, “The work probes my relationship to home, marked by the loss of its certainties and an overall sense of placelessness. Fragmented images, full of overlaps and distortion, like a corrupted hard drive dreaming of a place to return to.”

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FotoFest has announced the artist commissions for its biennial exhibition opening in March. Global Visions – FotoFest at 40 will feature new work by London photographer Lola Flash, and Houston-based photographic artists Shavon Aja Morris and André Ramos-Woodard.

The commissions will be presented at Project Row Houses as part of its Round 60 exhibition, which will showcase photographic artwork and be on view from Saturday, March 7, through Sunday, May 10. Other artists featured in the exhibition include Tokie Rome Taylor, Danielle Mason, Jay Clark, and Stephen Clark. PRH is one of more than 80 Houston venues participating in the citywide biennial.

Mx. Flash was a member of ACT UP, an influential New York City art and activism collective during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, and has recently received notoriety for a series of portraits of prominent septuagenarian women. For FotoFest, Mx. Flash will present recent work from their ongoing Afrofuturist self-portraiture series syzygy, the vision, begun in 2019. Their work has been collected by notable institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York City; the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

Ms. Morris will present new work employing collage elements and found photography from The Result of Things Left Unsaid, a series of works started in 2024 that explores universal emotional experiences, “absorbed by women, softened into timidity, then self-silenced,” as described in a press release. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Houston Museum of African American Culture, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design.

Mx. Ramos-Woodard’s 2025 series How to Be a Man explores masculinity, gender, and race in portraits, still lifes, and staged images. In a press release, the artist’s work is described as “deconstruct[ing] the symbols, gestures, and scripts that Western cultures enforce to suppress new horizons of gendered expression.” Mx. Ramos-Woodard received a 2022 fellowship from the Houston Center for Photography for their BLACK SNAFU project, and has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S. Their work was included in the 2022 Interventions exhibition at the  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the 18th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition at Texas Woman’s University in Denton.

To learn more about the FotoFest Biennial, celebrating its 40th anniversary, visit the FotoFest website.

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Remember the letter-writer who asked if they had crossed a line with the (messy, chaotic) organization they volunteered for? Here’s the update.

I’m the person who was angry about an Instagram post from the nonprofit that I was volunteering at. Duncan and Isadora did leave the board, although they still volunteered on a lower level. You mentioned that the nonprofit might not have great results towards its mission, and the truth is that the results are mixed. The organization’s goals are met, for the most part, but not without the great over-efforts of five or six people, myself included (which had earned me the nickname “Superstar” within the org).

Things came to a head when I was laid off from my job. The good news was that when I told a previous manager about the layoff, he immediately put a good word in for me at his company, which landed me a job with better pay and projects that I love. The bad news was that it was still stressful for me, especially since I was also in the middle of moving to a new apartment. My sleep schedule and appetite were negatively affected, so I had to pause volunteering to take care of myself. I was only required to tell the board members about my hiatus so they could reassign my responsibilities. In this time that I was away from the organization, none of the members or other volunteers reached out to me. When I had settled down into the new job and apartment, I texted a fellow volunteer to wish her a happy birthday. She said, “Thank you! I haven’t heard from you in a few weeks, how are things?” I explained everything that had been happening in my life, and she replied, “Oh, that makes sense. Nobody told us that you had to take a break. You just suddenly turned invisible, and we all wondered why you weren’t showing up.”

I was furious. First of all, if the other volunteers didn’t know why I was gone, it was because they weren’t told by anyone on the board about the hiatus, which was yet another example of a lack of communication within the org. Which confused me because, uh, who’s doing all the tasks that I was doing if I’m not there?

Second of all, it was just so hurtful. I joked off her “invisible” comment, but in reality, I wanted to cuss her out and throw my phone. I had assumed that everyone was just busy with their own lives, but I was angry because people apparently did notice that I wasn’t showing up but never bothered to think, “This is unusual. Is she okay? Maybe I should check on her.” A lot of the commenters mentioned that I’m a person who cares a lot about things, which is true. It hurts because one would believe that the reason nobody cares about you is because you never cared in turn, except when you know that’s not true at all, so you’re left hurt and confused as to why these otherwise lovely people never thought about you.

It was the straw that broke the camel’s back to get me to stop volunteering with them. I just ghosted the organization and decided to move on with my life (which, based on my experience, is really all you have to do!). I was sad because the nonprofit was the only one addressing a need in the area, which was why I had stuck with it for so long. It wasn’t worth the dysfunction and stress in the end, though, especially if I’ll only ever be either “superstar” or “invisible” and nothing else. I felt like a weight has come off my shoulders, and my schedule has been freed up to find something better to put my heart into.

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Let the cowboys ride! Jerry, run the lights. Hit the camera. This is our new song, Plastic Man!

WASHINGTON—According to a report released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a record number of Americans are finding themselves forced to make ends meet by retreating into their underground laboratories and practicing alchemy. “Even though I work long hours at my warehouse job, I still won’t be able to pay the bills if I don’t succeed in transmuting this hunk of lead into gold,” part-time alchemist Arthur Shandro said as he opened his wooden chest of arcana and used a copper retort to distill a corrosive elixir of mercury, wormwood essence, and vitriolated tartar. “I used to think alchemy was just for people like Paracelsus, Mary the Jewess, or the ancient Qin Dynasty wizard Anqi Sheng, but when I got kicked off my health insurance plan, I realized that my best chance of keeping my family healthy would be to alchemize a panacean elixir of life in my basement. It’s tough work, for sure, but alchemy isn’t so bad if you have a good Hermetic treatise to go off of, or the Kitab al-Asrar, which is this 10th-century Persian book of secrets that a friend lent me. Though I’ve learned a lot as I further my quest to understand the fundamental nature of matter and its transformations, I still regret having to melt down my grandmother’s heirloom earrings in order to evoke this month’s rent money from the prima materia.” At press time, Shandro erupted in a triumphant cackle after confecting what he claimed was the long-sought philosopher’s stone, which would allow him to afford groceries.

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It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes:

Would you consider an Ask the Readers on what people wish they’d known when they first became managers? I’ve just stepped into my first leadership role, moving from being a highly regarded individual contributor (who task managed teams for different projects) to actually managing a small department and wow, it’s a much bigger shift than I expected.

I’d love to hear what helped others get over that hump, what made things easier, what surprised them, and what they wish they’d known earlier.

Bonus points for advice on:

• Managing people who’ve been on the team for years but weren’t hired for this role despite applying

• Handling the weird loneliness of the “finding your feet” stage in a new leadership job

Readers?

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I’m obviously acting the same as I’ve always acted, and nothing about me has changed.

I FEEL FINE WEARING A HENLEY, SO THERE IS NO NEED TO LOOK AT ME.

I’m confident enough to wear it. I just have to feel confident, and I’ll be confident. Does my right shoulder seem lower than my left shoulder, like medically?

I’m in the vegetable aisle, and everyone can tell I’m taking way too long to make up my mind about what salad stuff to get. All of the terrible things going on in the world today, and all these people can do is undermine me? Wow.

Oh, fucking WORLD NEWS ALERT, EVERYONE: The guy in the oatmeal Henley is taking way longer than usual to make up his mind! And he looks like the kind of guy who usually just wears a black T-shirt. He looks like he’s been wearing black T-shirts for the last twenty-one years, everybody! Oh, everybody look! Everyone, look at him! Don’t pay attention to anything else happening in the world, just this guy!

I should’ve worn the black Henley, but when I put it on, I looked like a magician in 1993.

Do people think I’m trying to be fancy in this thing? The site I bought it from said it’s casual. The site basically said, “A fucking casual classic with a bunch of updated shit like four-button placket and confident raw edges, wear it instead of the bullshit you’ve been wearing for twenty-one years.”

Do I look like an oatmeal-colored Henley guy, man, or whatever? Just fucking tell me.

I know what everyone in here is thinking: “Get a load of fucking Henley over here, trying to figure out if he wants to put two ridiculously expensive sodas in his cart because he knows every good thing he has can disappear in a flash in this life…”

Am I supposed to wear a necklace with it? Oh, man, I don’t think I can. I can’t.

Jesus. Get some nuts. Like mixed nuts to go with these two expensive sodas, but also, like, get some nuts. You’re this person now. You’ve earned it.

Just BE HIM, and nobody will ask if you ARE HIM.

I’m going home,
I’m going home,
I’m going home.

I’m ditching my cart.
Ditch it, leave it,
You can’t do this.

Fine, fuck, I’m going back to my cart. It just looks like I went to look for something and left my cart here, and now I’m back.

Why did my girlfriend say to get two Henleys?

CHRIST. BE A MAN. AT LEAST FOR HER, IF NOT YOURSELF.

I will die one day. I’ve accepted that. I HAVE! ACCEPTED IT!

I’m fine, I’m calm.

How many buttons do you undo? Like one? Fuck it, I’m undoing one. Two?

I think I’ll always just call it a shirt. Be casual about it, that’s key.

Why’s the cashier looking at me like that?

SANTA BARBARA, CA—Groaning as yet another stranger shoved a ballpoint pen in his face, actor Noah Wyle stated Thursday that he was fed up with pushy fan tracheotomy requests. “Listen, I love that you love my work, but I’m just trying to grab breakfast with my family right now, not cut through any windpipes, okay?” said Wyle, the 54-year-old star of HBO Max’s The Pitt, who waved off the group of screaming fans frantically attempting to get his attention. “The first time it happened, 30 years ago, I was very flattered that someone wanted me to save their life. But it gets old pretty fast when you have people begging you to perform tracheotomies everywhere you go. Everyone wants to brag to their friends that they got a tracheotomy from Noah Wyle, but I just want my personal space.” Wyle went on to add that even if he did give a fan a tracheotomy, there was a 90% chance they would just sell it online.

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NEW YORK—Perking up with excitement after spotting a customer in the process of completely humiliating himself, the entire staff of a midtown H&M store reportedly gathered Thursday to watch a man struggle to refold a shirt. “Oh my God, everyone get out of the break room—you seriously have got to see this,” said sales associate Brenda Ruiz, rushing to summon every single one of her coworkers in the multistory retailer, including fitting room attendants, back-of-house staff, supervisors, maintenance, and security, to witness the bumbling man attempt to fold a T-shirt smoothly into quarters. “No, no, no, you have to tuck in the sleeves, man! God, this is incredible. Wait, is he actually trying to roll it up? No way! Louis is going to be so pissed this happened on his day off, so thank God you’re getting this all on video, Maria.” At press time, sources confirmed that every customer in the store, and even several passersby on the sidewalk, had joined the crowd of giddy onlookers as the man approached a stack of jeans.

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NEW YORK—Stating that they were “so proud, so, so proud,” the parents of filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie reportedly told their sons Thursday that regardless of what the Academy says, they liked both films equally. “One nomination, nine nominations—The Smashing Machine and Marty Supreme are both movie of the year in our book,” said the filmmakers’ mother, Amy Safdie, who grabbed her sons’ faces and boasted that they were both nominees for the “Most Handsome Boys” award. “The new neighbor even saw them, and she said they were both fabulous. Oscars, schmoscars. No matter what happens Mar. 15, you both made five-star films. Forget the critics—well, not you, Joshy. They loved yours.” At press time, sources confirmed the Safdie parents had taken Josh aside and reminded him that any Oscars he won would need to be shared with his brother.

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The 68th Annual Grammy Awards take place Feb. 1. The Onion shares everything you need to know about this year’s ceremony.

Q: Who will be there?

A: Anyone who’s anyone in the world of mouth noises.

Q: How can I watch?

A: The best way to experience the Grammys is a 30-second recap from your coworkers the next day.

Q: Are there any new categories?

A: The Recording Academy just introduced “Biggest Inhale,” “Playing in an Uber Right Now,” and “Suspected Use of Bowed Lyre.”

Q: Do winners get anything other than a trophy?

A: Yes, Spotify sponsors a $0.0000001 cash prize for every winner.

Q: Is any drama expected?

A: Lady Gaga and Chappell Roan will get into a fistfight after showing up in the same cape made out of bugs and steampunk top hat.

Q: What will be the ceremony’s most emotional moment?

A: Watching a classical musician spend 45 minutes trying to honk out the Grammy he dropped in his tuba.

Q: Should I watch the whole thing?

A: Watch until the end, and you might spot some artists dumping their trophies in the trash can on their way out.

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If Congress does not fund six major departments by Friday at midnight, the government will partially shut down.

DPS, ICE and county officers stopped the two. They say the experience left them particularly unsettled after learning of the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers in riot gear confronted protesters outside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. A chemical irritant used for crowd control was deployed, prompting protesters to disperse.

Skyrocketing detentions, violent arrests, troops in cities. One year into President Donald Trump’s second term, we look at how it’s changed the lives of immigrants and citizens.

State troopers deployed pepper spray at protesters at the family detention center near Dilley where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian’s detention has drawn nationwide attention.

Elon Musk’s company got a boost in its application by the Starbase city commissioners. Two commissioners are SpaceX employees.

Two Democrats are competing to serve out the rest of Sylvester Turner’s term. The winner will have a two-week incumbency advantage before early voting begins in the March primary.

In brief: In today’s post we discuss Houston’s brief run at normal high temperatures today, and then look at blustery (but dry) cold front arriving Thursday evening. This will lead to a cold weekend, with the chilliest temperatures coming on Sunday morning.

Briefly reaching normal highs

If you were wondering, Houston has already sailed through the typically “coldest” period of winter. This occurs from January 6 to January 14, when the average high is 63 degrees, and average low is 43 degrees. By late January we’ve already reached an average high of 65 degrees for the month.

However, you may have noticed we’ve been quite cold of late. Houston’s high temperature has not reached 65 degrees in more than a week, and after doing so today (probably) it won’t again until next Monday or Tuesday, at least. So enjoy today’s brief taste of “normal” January weather before another front arrives tonight.

Thursday

We are seeing some patchy fog again this morning, but this should dissipate fairly quickly as sunny skies prevail today. With southerly winds we are going to see temperatures warm nicely into the 65 to 70 degree range this afternoon. A cold front should push into the area this evening, likely between 8 pm and midnight. As there won’t be enough moisture aloft to support showers, I expect this to be a dry front. However its passage will be noticeable as winds will quickly pick up from the northwest, gusting up to 25 mph, or perhaps higher. Lows tonight will drop to around 40 degrees in Houston, with cooler conditions for outlying areas.

Friday

Skies should be partly to mostly cloudy on Friday, with highs generally in the lower 50s. We’ll also have those persistent northerly winds, which will still be gusty at times. A light freeze is possible in Houston on Friday night in Houston, with temperatures likely dropping into the 30 to 33 degree range.

Saturday

A secondary surge a colder air arrives on Saturday, and accordingly this will be a very cold day. Look for sunny skies and highs in the low 40s. Temperatures will bottom out on Saturday night, with lows likely in the 25 to 30 degree range in Houston, with cooler conditions for outlying areas. A hard freeze will be possible, but temperatures should be a few degrees warmer than what the region experienced earlier this week.

Sunday

Conditions will be a little warmer on Sunday, with sunny skies and highs in the vicinity of 50 degrees. Lows on Sunday night probably won’t freeze in Houston, but it will be close; and a light freeze will be possible further inland.

Monday

We’re going to warm back up into the 60s next week, and this time there will be time for moisture to return to the atmosphere ahead of the next front. The overall pattern is not exactly clear, but from Tuesday night through Thursday I expect a decent chance of rain, with overall accumulations perhaps somewhere on the order of 0.5 to 1 inch. Temperatures cool back down by Friday or so of next week, but at this time a freeze seems unlikely.

A reader writes:

I’m writing in about a situation a friend is in. He was at the annual convention for his employer organization when he was called into a meeting with his boss and his boss’s boss. They informed him that he was under investigation and they couldn’t tell him anything more, but that he was to leave the convention immediately as they’d canceled his hotel room. (I should note that the convention was an hour’s drive from his home, so it’s not like he had to reschedule flights or anything.)

The day after the convention, they sent him an email informing him that he was terminated. The reason for his termination? They had discovered he had applied for another job, which they considered to be disloyal. (Apparently he sent in an application for a job that would be a step up from this one, that manager knew his boss’s boss, and called to ask for a reference without clearing it with my friend.) He’d only had good reviews from his manager prior to this.

I’m a manager myself. He had only been with this organization for eight months. If I found out an employee was looking elsewhere in that short of a timeframe, I don’t think I’d be pleased, but I think I’d try to figure out why the employee was unhappy or game plan for their eventual departure, not fire them immediately.

Is this as wild a reaction as I think it is? He said he knew it was a dysfunctional workplace, which is why he was looking elsewhere, but still … this seems like such an overreaction and I just feel terrible for him.

Yeah, this is ridiculous and frankly awful.

It’s not “disloyal” to apply for other jobs (!). Employment isn’t a marriage. It’s a business arrangement that is generally understood to last only as long as it remains in both parties’ best interests.

A company that gets angry that an employee is looking around at their options is usually a company that knows on some level that it won’t measure up — because they’re underpaying or not treating people well.

To be clear, I wouldn’t be thrilled to find out that a good employee was actively interviewing after only eight months — but that’s because I don’t want to lose good employees, not because it would be a betrayal of any sort. When a manager learns that kind of thing, the right response is to reflect on why the person might be looking: are they underpaid? Is the job different than what they’d thought it would be? Have they expressed frustrations with the work that I haven’t been able to resolve? Are there actions I can take now that would help retain them?

And sure, I might also do some game-planning for their possible exit, like thinking about any cross-training gaps that we should address with more urgency. In some cases I might get nervous if I was planning something key around them still being here in a few months, and I might think about whether there was a way to talk to them about their likely longevity in the role.

None of that is about firing the person. Firing them is absurd.

And if this employer thinks none of their other employees ever interview for other roles because of loyalty, they are out of their gourds. In fact, ironically, a place that fires someone for job-searching is much less likely to be the sort of workplace that inspires loyalty in employees, because it’s a symptom of the sort of toxicity people are usually actively working to escape, not feeling inspired by to stick around long-term.

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One more detail… bite me.

VICTORIA, B.C. – Local thirty-five-year-old Dion Miller has reportedly salvaged his old  PlayStation 3 from a storage bin and repurposed it as his last way to watch Blu-rays, a move that has delighted the nearly 20-year-old gaming console. This decision to resuscitate the vintage piece of gaming hardware came after Miller remarked how “streaming sites […]

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The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says it arrested a 17-year-old boy who is accused of crashing a stolen car into a school bus with 27 students.

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