Arts writers in hard times: notes from the chopping block
Elizabeth Kramer, an arts journalist who writes for the Gannett-owned Louisville Courier-Journal, escaped massive layoffs on Tuesday, when the paper shed ten percent of its [...]
El Paso Museum and its Border Biennials get US-Mexico Cross-Border Cooperation and Innovation Award
The El Paso Museum of Art has received an award for US-Mexico Cross-Border Cooperation and Innovation, administered by the Border Research Partnership for its Border [...]
Ai Weiwei freed, China bends to popular outcry
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei was released “on bail” after three months in prison in a secret location. Slightly thinner, but in good health, Ai [...]
Claiming art is also reclaiming space, Juneteenth
Juneteenth could possibly be seen as the most significant event in American history after independence itself—the eradication of American slavery. On June 19, 1865, more [...]
Texan the model online art buyer
Houston oilman Roland Sledge of VAALCO Energy is the archetype of the outsider art buyer the big auction houses are hoping to rope in to [...]
Patrick Renner’s Window into Houston set to open at Magnolia; developer Petersen profiled
Patrick Renner’s Window Into Houston installation, the second at Blaffer’s new satellite space in the display windows of the historic Magnolia Ice House and brewery [...]
Scorched: Texas Summer Malaise, in Pictures
When we came back down to visit Texas a few years after moving to New England in a giant green Mercury Continental, I have the distinct memory of stepping [...]
Michael Guidry at the Galveston Art Center
I love Galveston. But, like Houston, it’s an acquired taste. It’s got lovely old buildings in various states of decay interspersed with not-so-lovely and downright [...]
The Catelope Owns You T-Shirt!
Gary Sweeny, Kristy Perez, and Kimberly Aubuchon are selling custom T-Shirts, including the Catelope (below) at a “T-shirt release party” on June 23 from 6-9pm [...]
New West TX pilgrimage: really big, really slow clock under construction near Van Horn
OK, so you’ been to Roden Crater, You’ve visited Magee’s Hill, Chinati, Spiral Jetty and all . . .what next? Inventor Danny Hillis, futurist Stewart [...]
Mary’s Lounge Mural Resurrected: Montrose Improvement Bureau Saves Gay Icon
Work begins today on the resurrection of the Mary’s Lounge mural on Westheimer near Montrose in Houston. The painting, which for years identified the iconic [...]
Naptistm Interpreted: Is it Art or Just Healthy Living?
The Houston Chronicle‘s Naheeda Sayeeduddin attended Emily Sloan’s Southern Naptist Convention at 14 Pews, leaving confused about the event’s message. Although appreciating Sloan’s piece as [...]
I Like Texas and Texas Likes Me
Who would’ve thought I’d ever be shilling for Texas, with a glass half-full at that? But having recently spent some time back in The Bayou [...]
Flow: Dalton Maroney 1982-2011
The Arlington Museum of Art’s current exhibition surveying the career of Dalton Maroney covers one year shy of three decades. His work is inspired by [...]
Don’t Be Afraid of the Ants
Probably one of the most stirring moments in the art world in the past year was the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s video, “A Fire in [...]
Dallas’ Dunn and Brown Split: New Talley Dunn Gallery Emerges
Dunn and Brown Contemporary is splitting up after twelve years at 5020 Tracy St. in Dallas. According to gallery co- founder Talley Dunn, the split [...]
Guns, Paganism Plague Public Art in Texas
You can’t please everybody: separate sculptural commissions in Fort Worth and Lubbock are each hitting snags as public wrangling over their content, from both ends [...]
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Crunching the Numbers, Part III
(For Part I and Part II, click here and here.) This series has considered the finances of a number of mid-sized, contemporary U.S. arts institutions [...]
Adams, Daniel-Kayne sent to France in TFAA artist trade-off
Reginald Adams, director of the Museum of Cultural Arts in Houston, and artist Daniel-Kayne are travelling to the Centre Léon Bérard Hospital in Lyon, France [...]
Sheerin Steps Down as Director of CentralTrak: Fontenot steps up to the plate
A. Kate Sheerin, Director of CentralTrak, The University of Texas at Dallas three-year-old Artists Residency program. In a doleful email the CentralTrak team announced Sheerin’s [...]
