An Interview with Leah Metzler
Leah Metzler is a young and ambitious performance artist who recently moved to Austin from New Orleans. She attended the Parsons School of Design and [...]
TX13 Update: Final Artists List
The Texas Biennial has added a few names and announced the complete list of artists selected for the 2013 Texas Biennial. For information on the [...]
Jimmy Jalapeeno, Texas Painter and Photographer, Has Died
Painter and photographer Jimmy Jalapeeno died peacefully yesterday afternoon, surrounded by friends and family. Born Albert James Bonar in 1947, Jalapeeno was a lifetime Texas [...]
This Weekend: Morris Engel’s “The Little Fugitive” at MFAH
This Friday through Monday, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is presenting daily screenings of the rarely seen classic, The Little Fugitive, via a beautiful [...]
The Whitney’s New Logo: Designers Watching Too Much “King of the Hill”? Or Not Enough?
The Whitney Museum of American Art unveiled its new brand identity redesign on Tuesday, and it is already provoking online design chatter, including the interesting [...]
TX Biennial Announces Selected Artists in Slowmo
The folks at the 2013 Texas Biennial have announced most of their selection of this year’s participating artists. The official press release is supposed to [...]
Picasso Vandal Sentenced to Two Years
Houston art student Uriel Landeros, who faced up to ten years for felony graffiti and criminal mischief charges, was sentenced to two years on the [...]
Jeff Gibbons: Chee$e = Milk’s 4th State of Matter, Chances Are, Intermission and The Brite Sun
Overall, Jeff Gibbons’ show(s) at Oliver Francis Gallery in Dallas is great—please go see it. It feels a little disjointed, but dealing with it by [...]
Texas Biennial 2013 to Leak Artists Today—Full List Tomorrow!
According to the Texas Biennial’s Facebook page, they will begin previewing selected artists throughout the day, via Facebook and Twitter. They plan to release the [...]
Austin Festival Explores the Techno-Future, Houston Show Presents the Techno-Past
This weekend, the Austin Museum of Digital Art will hold the PROTOS Digital Art and Prototyping Festival—four days of daytime events (free!) and nighttime events [...]
Barbie Identity Crisis Reaches All Time High: from Artist Videos to Occupy Protest
Those who have been following the work of Texas-based artist Lauren Kelley know that she sometimes uses Barbie dolls in her still photography, video works, [...]
CineMarfa 2013 (Part 2: The Films)
Just as Marfa’s Stonehenge (artist Donald Judd’s untitled, half-mile-long series of concrete boxes) beautifully frames and fractures light, landscape, and viewers’ own meditations, so does [...]
No Time to Visit a Remote Rainforest Surrealist Sculpture Garden? There’s an App for That!
Apple is set to release the latest app by Texas artists Robert Ziebell and Anthony Thompson Shumate, Las Pozas: Steps & Falls, next week. Lens-based [...]
Exploring Latino Identities: Carlos Rosales-Silva
The Exploring Latino Identities series examines issues in Latino/Latin American contemporary art through interviews with artists, art historians, and others. In today’s installment, multimedia artist, [...]
Experimental Film in Austin: Tonight Turkey! Tomorrow the World (in 35mm)!
There seems to be a recent interest in Turkish film, as proven by the recent inaugural Turkish Film Festival at the MFAH, and now Austin’s [...]
There’s Another Westheimer in Houston: Dr. Ruth Visits MFAH for Chat With the Director
Tickets are now on sale for the next ”Conversations with the Director” at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The series launched on April 23 [...]
New York Now: The Ten Second Tour
I spent the week of May 1-7 in New York to see galleries/museums and attend a curator conference. As an obsessive photo taker, I thought [...]
Where the Border of Water Meets Air, Dragonflies Gather
This fall, in Dundee, Scotland, printmaking professionals from around the world will gather for the 8th annual Impact International Printmaking Conference. With the theme of [...]
UH Center for Arts Leadership is Here. So, What Is It?
The University of Houston’s new Center for Arts Leadership is up and running. Fleurette Fernando, Director of the Center’s Master of Arts in Arts Leadership [...]
Avoid Those Long Checkout Lines at the Galleries! Fresh Arts Opens Online Store
There are tons of online shopping sites for contemporary art, from ExhibitionA to Paddle8, not to mention the big auction houses and individual artists’ homemade [...]
