Meet Your Special Russian Photographer Tonite!
120 artists participating in Fotofest’s meeting place portfolio reviews will congregate at the Doubletree Hotel Downtown Houston this evening to meet (and sell a few [...]
Jill Magid Speaks at Richland College
I first met Jill Magid in the Fall of 2006 when we team taught an interdisciplinary studio course for visual studies majors at the [...]
Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part I
I. Some Art Context I have so much to show you. This is the first painting I ever saw by Rigoberto Gonzalez. It appeared in [...]
Saturday! Sources and Echoes at Richmond Hall Celebrate a Decade of Nameless Sound
This Saturday, a 5-hour marathon of improvised music will fill complement Dan Flavin’s sideshow lighting at the Menil’s Richmond Hall. Eighteen graduates of the Nameless [...]
Russell Young at the Goss-Michael Foundation
Weaving together the movie star and the rock star, Fame holds a place of honor in contemporary art. The Goss-Michael Foundation’s retrospective of the work [...]
Nancy Hamon Estate Sale to Benefit DMA Beginning March 23
The contents of the late Nancy Hamon’s Dallas Penthouse and her San Francisco apartment will be sold off in a four-day estate sale happening March [...]
Newswire Report: Culturemap Reports Reporters at Fotofest
Tyler Rudick of Houston’s Cuturemap reports on a bevy of international reporters in town for Fotofest, including “journalists from publications like The Economist, The Moscow [...]
Sustainable Practice: GONZO247
Aerosol Warfare has been a Houston institution for over twenty years, and for much of that time, GONZO247 has been the engine driving the website [...]
DMA Hiring Binge Continues: Mark Leonard Appointed First Ever Chief Conservator, Launches Conservation Push
Dallas Museum of Art Director Maxwell Anderson has named ex-Getty Museum conservator Mark Leonard as the Museum’s first Chief Conservator, signaling an expansion of the [...]
LED’s Light the Way to Award for Not-So-Stark Museum
The Stark Museum of Art in Orange was named the Outstanding Arts and Humanities Organization for 2011 by the Southeast Texas Arts Council on Monday. [...]
The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection at the MFAH
In what can only be described as a coup, the massive ceramics collection of New York dealers Garth Clark and Mark del Vecchio was acquired [...]
Spring Break Obituary Roundup
Apologising for the spate of recent obituaries, Robert Boyd has interesting bios of gallerist Dianne David, patron Toni Beauchamp and artist Mark Aguhar, who represent [...]
Empty Pool Makes Nifty Theater in Austin
Jeanne Clair Van Ryzin of the Austin American Statesman has a mini review of the Arts of Palm, a clever re-use of an abandoned public [...]
Museums Not Required to Shop Often Don’t: Dobrzynski Tells Why
Ace art blogger Judith Dobrzynski penned a neat summary of how a dedicated acquisitions fund ups a collecting museum’s cachet and opportunities in last week’s [...]
Katie Paterson: Focus in Fort Worth
Existing somewhere between visual poetry, scientific investigation and environmental loss is the work of Katie Paterson. It is quiet and blue (sometimes in color and [...]
Fotofest Katy Opens March 23
Did you know that the City of Katy has granted the Katy Culture & Arts Alliance $6,059 to help support the town’s first biennial of [...]
CAMH’s Van Der Beek Culture Intercom Named Best Video Show by AICA
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the MIT List Visual Arts Center are sharing a major award from the International Art Critics Association (AICA/USA) for [...]
No Ketchup On the Cragg! MFAH Sculpture Garden to Host Outdoor Eats
Cafe Express is no longer the only food option! Beginning March 12, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has arranged for a different food truck [...]
The Ten List: Your Portfolio and You (Redux for FotoFest 2012)
In honor of the FotoFest 2012 Biennial, we’re republishing this 2008 classic from the inimitable Clint Willour… Just in in time for FotoFest‘s Meeting Place, [...]
Homesick
There are few times where I am genuinely homesick, and even fewer times that I miss my birth country. That said, the hardest part of [...]
