Between the Worlds at Artpace
Walking into Matthew Ronay’s dense, dark “Between the Worlds” installation is like stumbling into an Edward Gorey black-and-white fairy tale forest. Mysterious striped owls sit [...]
Skydive lands
Houston’s Skydive art collective, booted out of it’s original Montrose hi-rise space during a building make-over, will re-locate to 2041 Norfolk St., at the corner [...]
LACMA to oversee Watts Towers
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced a collaboration with the City of Los Angeles in which the museum will provide restoration experts, helping [...]
The Ten List: Things Not to Paint
Teaching art is a bizarre task. I have been working with students at the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North [...]
Arthouse is Re-opening!
After a major remodel that nearly triples its space, Arthouse at the Jones Center will re-open on Sunday, October 24 with much hoopla, FIVE new [...]
Fisher, Colpitt at MAMFW
Tuesday Evenings at the Modern Presents K-Mart conceptualist Vernon Fisher in conversation with Dr. Frances Colpitt, art historian, critic, author, and the Chair of Art [...]
Zombies walk
With unintentional(?) grim irony, Zombie Walk Houston has again chosen Tillman Troops, a charity that supports members of the armed forces and their families, as [...]
DMA Reves Collection anniversary
In 1985, Wendy and Emery Reves gave 1400 works of European art, as well as paintings from Sir Winston Churchill to the Dallas Museum of [...]
Cutler pressured to resign at SFA?
Stephen F. Austin University art gallery director Christian Cutler was de-facto fired last week after refusing a request from 1st district Representative Louie Gohmert’s office [...]
Big green art
Austin Green Art is working on a project it calls "the biggest art piece ever made in Austin." They’re hoping spread 2000 lbs of seeds [...]
Kimbell groundbreaking
On Monday, Fort Worth’s Kimbell art museum began the much talked about site preparation for its much talked about Renzo-Piano designed addition. Trees and power [...]
Gabriel Kuri salon at Blaffer
On Wednesday, Oct. 20, Fredericka Hunter of Texas Gallery; Rex Koontz, associate professor of art history at the University of Houston; Mary Leclère, associate director [...]
Out and About in Austin: Part 2
It seems like today we’re going through a similar technological revolution to the one we went through over 100 years ago and like a [...]
Mary Ethelene Bucy, 1934-2010
Mary Ethelene Bucy, 76, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 2 in Houston. Ethelene taught art & art history at St. John’s School in Houston for [...]
MFAH: nation’s most active vanity venue!?
Last week Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight, amid a tirade against vanity exhibitions and the institutions that host them, casually says, as if [...]
Cowboy coliseum
Gene and Jerry Jones, owners of the Dallas Cowboys explain their vision of a 21st century coliseum combining sports, art, architecture and technology and it’s [...]
Houston Summit for the Creative Economy
Cross-pollinating the voodoo cant of business motivational speaking with the gobbledygook of public arts policy (am I being too negative here?) 300 "fire-starters" will collaborate [...]
Goss-Michael expansion
Dallas’ Goss-Michael Foundation will open its new space at 1405 Turtle Creek Boulevard on November 19. Near the newly opened Dallas Contemporary, the former 12,000sf [...]
Merz at the Menil
Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, the first solo museum show for the Hanover hoover since 1985 MoMA retrospective, opens at the Menil Collection on October [...]
I didn’t know! Akio Takamori lectures at AMOA.
I’m kind of upset right now. My former professor and a huge influence on my artwork is lecturing at AMOA today Saturday October [...]
