Biggs and Collings: Suspicious Utopias, An Interview
British artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are known as much for their beautiful tessellated abstract paintings as their staunch defense of them. Their current [...]
Gary Sweeney: How To Disarm Just About Anyone
1. What’s your favorite merit badge? My favorite merit badge was the “Fingerprinting” badge, which I’m sure they don’t even have anymore. My father was [...]
Too Much is Never Enough: Dallas Art Scene Panel at CentralTrak TONITE!
CentralTrak, the UT Dallas artist residency program is hosting yet another panel discussion on the health and future of the Dallas art scene tonight, Thursday, [...]
A Life in Art: Claire Golden Honored by San Antonio Art League
The San Antonio Art League & Museum has given Claire Golden the this year’s Ethel T. Drought Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts. [...]
FotoFest Seeking New Director, Watriss and Baldwin Say It’s Time for New Leadership
“After 26 years creating and developing FotoFest, it is time for new leadership,” say FotoFest Co-founders Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin. “As part of FotoFest’s [...]
Susan Toomey Frost Donates Guillermo Kahlo Collection to the Wittliff
San Antonio collector Susan Toomey Frost has gifted Texas State U’s Witliff Collection with 120 photographs, postcards, booklets, and books documenting the life and work [...]
Celia Eberle: motherf at Cris Worley Fine Arts
The only time I have had a transcendent experience through art was while visiting Rome—until now. motherf, an exhibition of new work by Celia Eberle [...]
Amon Carter Reveals Caves by Duncanson, 19th Century African American Artist
The Amon Carter Museum has proudly announced the acquisition of “The Caves,” a painting by prominent 19th century African-American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872), from [...]
Bearcat Scramble: Michael Henderson to Head SHSU Art Department
Michael Henderson, has been selected as the new chair of the Sam Houston State University Art Department, after the departure of longtime chair Tony Shipp, [...]
TV, Or Not TV: Public Access at MASS Gallery
Public Access, which runs at the MASS Gallery through May 4, purports to accomplish many, many things at the same time. The gallery’s 500-word description [...]
Pollock vs Kruschev: Ab Ex Art Revealed as CIA Cold War Propaganda Weapon
The Independent (UK) reports on recently revealed information that the CIA promoted American avant garde art as a tool for cold war propaganda in the [...]
Somewhere Inside the Rainbow: Discovery Green Inflates Exxopolis Environment This Week
Houston’s Discovery Green Park is hosting an installation of Exxopolis, an enormous temporary environment by international inflatable art specialists Architects of Air from Monday, April [...]
Groundhog Day (or Sea Change?)
On April 25th, Dallas’ CentralTrak hosted Not Waiting for Permission, the second annual panel discussion on the state of the emerging arts in Dallas, organized [...]
Triple Treat @ Unit B, San Antonio
I’m not sure what I expected from “Triple Treat,” the CAMx exhibition at Unit B. I had really high hopes for the exhibition and can [...]
WEST 2013: West Austin Studio Tour Kickoff Weekend
This weekend Big Medium, the folks that brought you EAST and the TExas Biennial, present the 2nd annual West Austin Studio Tour, a sprawling, free, [...]
Emma Richardson Cherry: Houston’s First Modern Artist at the Houston Public Library
When did modern art arrive in Houston? The thought-provoking timeline put together by Caroline Huber and The Art Guys a few years back for “No [...]
Last Resort: Kelly O’Connor at Women and Their Work
At the entrance to Last Resort, a shelf holds a handful of empty wasp nests for our inspection. That is, the nests are empty of [...]
Last Resort: Kelly O’Connor at Women and Their Work
I had never seen Kelly O’Connor’s work together in one place, one show, one space all at one time until I saw Last Resort at Women and [...]
Blanton Museum’s Fifty Fest Celebrates a Half Century with a Whole Day of Party
Today, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin celebrates it’s 50th anniversary with an all day affair: everyone’s invited to Fifty Fest, a free birthday [...]
What Makes Today’s Homes So Appealing? Yesterday! Lawndale Design Fair Offers Weekend of Retro Shopping
Design Fair 2013 at Houston’s Lawndale Art Center juxtaposes vintage modern objects of the 20th century and “cutting-edge” contemporary design for a weekend high-end [...]
