Data = Dollars: SMU Launches New National Center For Arts Research
R. Gerald Turner, President of Southern Methodist University, announced that the Meadows School of the Arts and Cox School of Business are leading a collaboration [...]
A Valentine to “GIRLS”
Last week’s episode of “GIRLS” showed Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah Horvath, engaging in a topless round of ping pong with Joshua, a recently separated 42-year-old [...]
Painters’ Painters
This is officially the season of painters’ painters. Three major exhibitions curated by Houston-based painters have opened in the last five months– “In Plain Sight” [...]
Blue Horse Debate: Jiménez Mustang, Monument, Monster, or Moola?
Mustang, Luis Jiménez’s last work, aka the Big Blue Horse at the Denver Airport was reconsidered on Monday. Maybe it’s the glowing red eyes, or [...]
San Antonio Nonprofit Returns $100,000 Grant, SAY Sí Awarded with an Unexpected Windfall
Representatives from SAY Sí got a big surprise (and a big check) at the 2013 Membership Kickoff Party for Impact San Antonio last Thursday, when [...]
Moody Foundation Awards $20 million to Rice for New Art Building
The Moody Foundation has awarded $20 million to Rice University for a new Center for the Arts. The 50,000-square-foot building, currently in the predesign phase, [...]
Tejas Englesmith, 1940-2013, Former Whitechapel Curator
Tejas Englesmith, Houston curator, arts administrator, and radio personality, died Sunday morning, February 7 in a Dallas hospital. In the 1960′s and 70′s, Englesmith was [...]
Rachel Hecker Named ALH Texas Artist of the Year 2013, Oliver Given New Lifetime Achievement Award
Art League Houston has named Rachel Hecker as their Texas Artist of the Year for 2013. Leigh and Reggie Smith were named as Texas Patrons [...]
Bones: Prince Varughese Thomas and Kendell Geers
Stupid Painting with your lack of ideas I won’t say “Conceptual Art.” It’s a lie, and not the good you-kinda-look-like-Idris-Elba lie, but more like [...]
An Ethical Alloy: DMA’s Anderson Defends The Great Giveback
Sunday’s Dallas Morning news carried an op-ed piece by Dallas Museum of Art Director Maxwell Anderson, titled Giving Back Art: How Museums See It. The [...]
Bush in The Bath: Ex-President’s Hacked Paintings Probed by Avid Internet Psychoanalysts
As a result of a recent hacker attack on the Bush family, photographs of three paintings by former President George W. have gone viral on [...]
Rev Your Engines- the Orange Show’s Annual Art Car Parade Entry Deadline is March 22!
The 25th annual Art Car Parade rolls through Houston on May 9-11, 2013, and you can be in it! Just fill out the lengthy online [...]
Michael Bise: Life On the List, Chapter 3
Last month marked the one year anniversary of my heart transplant. This chapter, and indeed, this entire comic is dedicated to all the many people [...]
A Saint and A Sinner
Austin film programmer Zack Carlson and the Alamo’s upcoming screening of rarely seen mindblower, “The World’s Greatest Sinner” Everyone knows that Austin’s original Alamo Drafthouse [...]
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
Jean-Ulrick Désert is a Haitian-born American artist living in Germany. His performance project Negerhosen 2ooo is one of the standouts of the soon-to-close Radical Presence: [...]
1,000 Night Walks Bloom in Houston- Maybe
Raj Mankad, editor of Rice Design Alliance’s Cite magazine, is circulating a petition asking the city of Houston to close a section of a different [...]
Artlies, Texas Art Mag 1994-2011, Finally Goes Online, if Posthumously
Recently, The University of North Texas became the host for the archives of Art Lies, the now-defunct paper-and-ink Texas art magazine that began in Houston [...]
Glass Houses 25: Hillerbrand+Magsamen
For our ongoing series Glass Houses, Jack Thompson photographed Houston husband and wife collaborators Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand, who document their home, family and [...]
DiverseWorks is thirty! Houston Art Space Keeps on Keepin’ On
Yesterday was a big day for venerable Houston alterna-space DiverseWorks. Exactly 30 years ago, on February 7, 1983, DiverseWorks’ inaugural exhibition was presented at Texas [...]
Academic Shows That Made Me Curse With Joy: Artists’ Books at TWU; Ceramics at SMU
The formats are traditional and the originality is through the fucking roof. Artists’ books at Texas Woman’s University; ceramics at SMU. Artistic boundaries are pushed [...]
