Denton Artist Receives MacDowell Colony Residency
The prestigious MacDowell Colony has released its list of 84 artists who will receive summer fellowships at its estate in Peterborough, New Hampshire, reports ARTnews....Read More
2019 Southern Graphics Council International Conference Comes to North Texas
Southern Graphics Council (SGC) International, an organization dedicated to the art of printmaking, has announced that its 2019 conference will be held in North Texas....Read More
A Quick Chat with Giovanni Valderas About Art, Activism, and Troubling Gentrification
I first met artist Giovanni Valderas in Dallas in 2013 when were both members of 500X Gallery. One of the most interesting projects we worked...Read More
Picasso Makes a Comeback
Tomorrow, April 24, the National Geographic Channel will debut its second season of “Genius,” focusing on Pablo Picasso and starring Antonio Banderas. The “Genius” series...Read More
Show Your Work Online with this Austin-Based Digital Residency
Web-based projects and residencies might not be the newest thing happening in the art world, but they’re still pretty cool. Lots of Texas organizations — Big...Read More
Christie Blizard Performing at Dirty Dark Place for Austin’s Fusebox Festival
This weekend, San Antonio artist Christie Blizard performed improvisational, synth-driven music at Dirty Dark Place (DDP) in Kyle, Texas as part of her exhibition TRUE SPERM. Her...Read More
Riley Robinson Named Interim Director of Artpace
Today Artpace, the venerable artist residency program in San Antonio established by Linda Pace in 1995, announced the appointment of Riley Robinson to the...Read More
Marfa Myths Diary 2018, Part Two
This is Part Two of a two-part dispatch on this year’s Marfa Myths, which took place over the weekend of April 12, 2018. Read part...Read More
Wild Weekend of Printmaking Comes to Houston
This weekend, April 21st and 22nd, printmakers will take over Houston for the annual It Came from the Bayou gathering, show, and sale. Kicking off...Read More
Rodrigo Valenzuela at Art League Houston
How does a body process labor? What are the aftereffects of that process, and how do those aftereffects manifest within or throughout a group or...Read More
Extreme Art Project: Turn Yourself into a Reptile
Eva Tiamat Medusa, born Richard Hernandez, knew he wasn’t really a boy at an early age. After changing from a “he” to a “she,” she...Read More
Dallas Arboretum and Artscape Introduce ‘Galleries at the Degolyer’
The Dallas Arboretum hosts its yearly Artscape, a fine art and craft fair held at the Arboretum featuring professional and student artists showing and selling...Read More
Top Five: April 19, 2018
Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on the Texas Kitsch Master, a rethink of the NSA, and the ascendence of Fusebox Festival in Austin. 1. Robyn...Read More
Dallas to Give Martha Stewart “Great Contributor to Art Award”
Artists think of the word “art” as their own, but the word is used in many ways (although not as amusingly as the recent and...Read More
Free Shuttle Bus Will Get You From Houston to Victoria’s Art Car Parade
Victoria, Texas’ Art Car Parade (and surrounding events) takes place this Saturday, April 21, and this year there’s a free shuttle bus available to take...Read More
Marfa Myths Diary 2018, Part One
Perhaps it’s my entry into middle age, but most music festivals now seem to be a horrifying simulacrum of modern life: you’re trapped in a...Read More
DiverseWorks Hires New Curator
Houston’s DiverseWorks has announced the appointment of independent curator Ashley DeHoyos as its new assistant curator. She will begin her new position on May 14. She...Read More
Dave Bryant/Peat Duggins Screening in Austin This Monday
Back in the early aughts, Dave Bryant and Peat Duggins co-founded one of Austin’s more memorable and active art collectives, called the Fresh Up Club....Read More
Critic Jerry Saltz Wins Pulitzer
Jerry Saltz has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, reports ARTnews, among other publications. The New York magazine senior art critic won for his...Read More
How Was This Year’s Vignette Art Fair?
In its second year, the Vignette Art Fair in Dallas, an alternative art fair held during the Dallas Art Fair week at the Women’s Museum in...Read More