Keith Carter: From Uncertain to Blue at PDNB Gallery
PDNB (Photographs Do Not Bend) Gallery isn’t letting a few decades sideline its taste in contemporary photography. Keith Carter: From Uncertain to Blue revisits Carter’s eye on the common folk [...]
The End of a Year and the End of a Life: Eva Zeisel
Eva Zeisel was a ceramic artist and designer who revolutionized tableware. She died yesterday at 105 after an amazing life that included being falsely accused [...]
Silva rounds Up 2011 in the San Antonio Visual Arts
It’s not technically over yet, but Elda Silva of the San Antonio Express-News has wrapped up the visual arts in her city for 2011 in [...]
Anti-Piracy Bill Could Shut Down Questionable Websites
A bill under consideration in the US House of Representatives could, if passed, have far-reaching effects on the use of copyrighted material on the web, [...]
Top 10, 2011
End of year lists allow a critic to consider the past year and tally up the most exciting cultural moments. I decided to take a [...]
Artist and Advocate Frances Bagley Receives 2010 Moss/Chumly Award from Meadows Museum
Frances Bagley is the winner of this year’s Moss/Chumley Artist Award, recognizing a North Texas artist who has been important as an arts advocate. The [...]
Texas Women Support the Arts, Big Time
The NY Times (via Texas Monthly) briefly profiles six Texas women who are continuing the tradition of Ima Hogg and Velma Kimbell by making important [...]
Stain Painter Helen Frankenthaler Dies at 83
Seminal postpainterly expressionist Helen Frankenthaler died on December 27 at age 83, after a long illness, reports Art Daily. Since her first solo exhibition at [...]
FOCUS: KAWS at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Brooklyn artist KAWS hurls the onlooker into a cartoon’s daytime nightmare with effectively targeted film and television favorites, calling forth a sense of the unexpected that is [...]
What’s New News: Interactive Racks Hit the Streets for Donnett’s Idea Fund Project
Nathanniel Donnett’s What’s The New News project has hit the streets of Houston’s Third Ward, placing eight customized newspaper racks at neighborhood sites, reinterpreting original [...]
End-of-2011 recommendation: Justin Boyd’s boids at Artpace
Justin Boyd’s Window Works installation at Artpace is called “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence.” This title struck me as maybe unnecessarily long [...]
It’s MY Face, Don’t Rip It Off!
If you need something to read during the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s, Daniel Grant has written a lengthy, and slightly technical dissection [...]
MFAH to Unleash Massive Latin American Art Database at January Conference
It’s currently under construction on Friday, January 20 the MFAH’s much touted International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) digital archive goes online [...]
Our 10th Anniversary Farewell: John Perreault on Robert Rauschenberg’s Glass Tires
Back in 2001, our founder Rainey Knudson named this site in honor of Robert Rauschenberg’s cast glass tire sculptures. The glass tires were made [...]
Stonehenge’s Oldest Rocks Moved 160 Miles, Say British Geologists
Wired UK‘s Mark Brown reports that a team of British geologists have pinpointed the site of the quarry from which Stonehenge’s eponymous stones were transported. [...]
CAMH Re-Accredited by AAM: Distinction Accompanied by Mild Rejoicing
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has been re-accredited by the American Association of Museums (AAM), after a rigorous multi-year review, becoming one of the elite [...]
Sometimes the ground just has to shake a bit…
There was an earthquake a few weeks ago. It was a 6.8 that originated from the state of Guerrero only a few hours south of [...]
Nativity Scenes Should Be Colorful, Life-Sized, and Plastic
Merry Christmas! The holiday hoopla is drawing to a close and decorations will soon be coming down. This means I will soon drive down Gaston [...]
Gisha, Emileigh, Juanito
This is Guillermina “Gisha” Zabala, an artist and filmmaker from Argentina who makes her home in San Antonio with her Uruguayan husband Enrique Lopetegui, [...]
West Texas LAND Part 2
When we were driving to Marfa there was a shift in the landscape. We entered the desert. “It’s like we’re on Mars,” I said and [...]
