Dalí Would Have Driven The Banana Car
Happy Birthday, Dalí! While Salvador Dalí would have loved the Art Car Parade, it was seemingly the only surrealist festivity of the day around these [...]
Mickey De Los Muertos: Disney Attempts to Trademark Entire Holiday
After it became known that the Walt Disney Company, in conjunction with an upcoming Pixar feature, had quietly filed several trademark applications for the term [...]
Heavy Rains Delay Today’s Art Car Parade
Fears of rain on Saturday morning in Houston have caused the organizers of the the Art Car Parade to delay the world’s largest procession of [...]
As Frieze New York Opens, Unions Smell a Rat
As Dallas recovers from last month’s successful art fair and Houston gears up for two more (Houston Fine Art Fair in September and the Texas [...]
People in Your Neighborhood: Karen Weiner
Let me introduce to you Karen Weiner, Director, founder and driving force behind The Reading Room at 3715 Parry Ave. in Dallas. Swing the Book [...]
YouTube Introduces PayTube: Subscription Channels Get Test Run
YouTube announced a new subscription service Thursday, opening the door to a whole new way to pay for content on the popular video sharing site, [...]
FitzGibbons Steps Away: Longtime Blue Star Director To Reduce Role in San Antonio Art Space
Bill FitzGibbons, Executive Director for the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum for more than 10 years, will resign that post effective June 15th. FitzGibbons will [...]
The 7% Solution: New Bill May Revive Resale Royalties for U.S. Artists
In the United States, the first-sale doctrine prevents artists from profiting from resales of their work, but Europeans have granted droit de suite (French [...]
Eat Art: Bun B and Uchi to Collaborate on Blaffer Feast Fest
According to Eater Houston editor Eric Sandler, hip hop legend Bun B will collaborate with one of his favorite Houston restaurateurs to create a “performance [...]
Floor Staff and the Guest Experience @ the Dallas Museum of Art
If you’re anything like me, you probably keep a mental notebook of museums that seem to do consistently interesting work; it’s pages filled with the [...]
The Image Extends Past the Edge of the Plane: an Interview with J. Parker Valentine
J. Parker Valentine is an artist who lives in Austin, TX and New York City. Her recent show at Artpace San Antonio extends her drawing [...]
Glasshouses 27: Patrick Turk and Claire Webb
Say you were living in medieval Europe, drinking mead and passing out on a stone table, when a hologram of Carl Sagan beams in and [...]
NEA Spring Grants Announced: Texas Visual Arts Orgs Share $382,000
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced it’s Art Works Grants, and 31 Texas nonprofits have benefited, to the tune of $788,500, total. Among [...]
Puppets Conquer Cairo: Cabaret Crusades Final Screening at MAC
On Saturday, May 11, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary is holding a night of Middle Eastern music, food and film around the last screening of artist [...]
Tattooed Squeegee Boys
A lot of prints I see these days are quite genteel and pleasant. Printmaking has evolved into a rather polite art form. But this wasn’t [...]
Inversion House Idea Featured in Honda Ad, Havel And Ruck Sue for More Money
Dean Ruck and Dan Havel’s popular 2005 architectural intervention, Inversion, has been pirated by admakers for Honda, according to a lawsuit the Houston artists filed [...]
Big Saddle Wins Big Money: Marshall Harris Rounds Up $50,000 Hunting Art Prize
Fort Worth artist Marshall Harris has won the $50,000 Hunting Art Prize 2013 with “Round Up: B.F. Smith & Son Saddlery Circa 1940-1942″ a [...]
Dig Those Geothermal Wells! New Kimbell’s a-Comin’ November 27
Better start getting ready- the opening of the new Renzo Piano addition to Louis Kahn’s already perfect, but not quite large enough Kimbell Art Museum [...]
Tier One Comics: First UH Graphic Novel Anthology Release Tonight!
Every other spring, graphic novelist Mat Johnson teaches a graphic novel workshop at the University of Houston, a collaborative offering of UH’s esteemed Creative Writing [...]
Creatives Think Inside The Box: Austin’s Canopy Space First Look
What do you get when you cram dozens of “creatives” into a Michael Hsu-renovated warehouse complex? Canopy! Austin’s newest creative complex on Springdale road. The [...]
