eState Sale
Last weekend I went with a friend to a string of local openings. Some of the shows I saw I don’t even remember looking at, [...]
Shipp Steps Down at SHSU, Graybill’s Lawsuit to Proceed
According to independent student newspaper The Houstonian, Tony Shipp, longtime chair of the Sam Houston State University Art Department in Huntsville will be stepping down [...]
This one is for Margaret Meehan and Similar but Different…
I couldn’t help but take a photo of this very lonely seat on the subway in Chicago just a couple of weeks ago… Imagine my [...]
COM Gallery Eye Torture Show: 2 Million Cameras x 10 pics . . . too bad there’s no entry fee!
People with cellphone cameras within 100 miles of Texas City are invited to email their best pictures to Mayuko Gray at the College of the [...]
Is there room for ART in CSR?
Long gone are the days when a CEO could simply cut a company check to his favorite charity. Now that it has become clear that [...]
Art Narc: Vildelife
My former landlord in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a sphinx-like Teutonic manchild who sublet me one of the ad-hoc drywall sleeping lofts in the colossal warehouse he leased [...]
UH Grad Painting Studios All Wet, But Dry Now
A leaking pipe in a fourth-floor closet poured an inch of water all over the concrete floors of the University of Houston’s Graduate painting studios [...]
Arts Center of North Texas Moves to Plan B
The ambitious, troubled Arts Center of North Texas, a joint project of six cities in Collin County north of Dallas, is foundering after the City [...]
Betts Gets New American Paintings Annual Award
Houston Artist William Betts has been selected for this year’s New American Paintings annual $1000 prize. Bett’s polished, mechanical images of photographs and surveillance video [...]
Detroit: 138 Square Miles
Ever discover what you want to write about something, after reading what someone else wrote about something else? Happens to me all the time—most [...]
Reception Honoring Houston Mayor Annise Parker and 2012 City of Houston Elected Officials Tuesday
Everyone smile at the camera and say “public/private partnership!” On tuesday evening, January 24, there will be bit of political theater a Houston’s Hobby Center [...]
D. Berman Closes in Wimberly, But Will Assume A Virtual Afterlife
Once an Austin mainstay, D. Berman Gallery, which moved to Wimberly last year, is planning to go entirely virtual on February 1, continuing to represent [...]
New Rice U Art Building in the Works; Maltzan Working on Pre-Design
Rice University has taken concrete steps towards building a new, $30 million art building on its Houston campus. Architect Michael Maltzan of Los Angeles is [...]
Mexic-Arte Museum Selected for Polishing by Federal Museum Assessment Program
Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum will participate in the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services’s (IMLS) Museum Assessment Program (MAP), a federally-funded voluntary makeover that hopes [...]
Still Lucky After All These Years
Houston artist Theresa O’Connor’s pioneer trans-genre shopping venture fashion/art/lifestyle shop Hello Lucky turns 4. She’s holding a sprawling anniversary party on Saturday with a DJ [...]
The “Arts Management Professional”
Why should we care about the rise of the arts management professional? Because the institutions that produce art—institutions made up of people who have a [...]
New Civic Group Sponsors Major El Paso Museum Shows
CommUNITY en Accion (CEA), a year-old El Paso philanthropic group, is sponsoring a trio of exhibitions focusing on Mexican masterworks at the El Paso Museum [...]
Regine Basha Named New Artpace Director
Powerhouse curator Regine Basha has been appointed Executive Director of Artpace in San Antonio, beginning March 1. From 2002-2007, Basha was Adjunct Curator at Arthouse [...]
MFAH’s Combative Ramiréz in Wall St. Journal, calls Frida Kahlo Overappreciated Drama Queen
Blogger Judith Dobrzynski interviews the MFAH’s Mari Carmen Ramírez for today’s Wall St. Journal on the eve of the launch of the museum’s vast digital [...]
With New Medal Tinterow Outranks Anderson: Texas Museum Directors Polish Their French Honors
Gary Tinterow, former Met curator and new director of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, is going to be awarded the insignia of Officer of [...]
