Jack Boynton, an artist long associated with the Houston art scene, died Monday from lung cancer. He was 82. Born in 1928 in Fort Worth, [...]

Edmund "Ted" Pillsbury, director of the Kimbell Museum from 1980 to 1998, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack after visiting a client on behalf [...]

"Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance" at the Menil Collection is a show you won’t see anywhere else in Texas, or most [...]

Here’s a taste of the opening weekend of Fotofest: My favorite show was easily RE: groups – American Photographs Before 1950 from W.M. Hunt´s Collection [...]

Hey everyone: this Friday, Dec. 4 is Be the Ball, our annual holiday shindig co-hosted by Fresh Arts Coalition! Our legendary anti-gala this year celebrates [...]

Gallery Sonja Roesch in Houston has a great show up right now. Roesch is a German native, and she likes minimalism, which admittedly is not [...]

Michelle White’s been promoted to associate curator at the Menil Collection, which means 1) a much-deserved promotion for a talented young curator (currently working on [...]

Preview the new season of Art:21, the PBS series about artists, this weekend and next at the MFAH’s Brown Auditorium! Saturday, Oct. 3, will be [...]

We are pleased to announce that our editor Kelly Klaasmeyer has been awarded the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship for 2009. Kelly joins arts writers [...]

This Friday, August 7, from 11 pm - 1:30 am Central Time, we will be performing some hosting maintenance. The site will be offline for 30 [...]

The Dallas Contemporary has announced the winners of their self-described "Dallas Art World Oscars" – a.k.a. the legend awards, awarded annually to an artist, arts professional and [...]

Hey everyone: the "Favify" button on our homepage is the first installment in A Feverish Dream, by Houston artist and 2009 Glasstire Virtual Resident Brian Piana! Click on [...]

Austin artist and UT prof Robert Dale Anderson died unexpectedly on Sunday at his home. Here is the Austin Chronicle’s post. Anderson was very active [...]

Jeffrey Grove of the High Museum has been named the first Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the DMA. He’ll start in September.

PBS goobs like us get all fired up when something like this comes across the wire: the Amon Carter has an 1847 painting by James [...]

At first blush, the current show at the Kimbell doesn’t excite much in the way of anticipation. But although "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy" [...]

Lawndale Art Center has been on something of a roll lately. Their curatorial process hasn’t changed: all shows are decided by open submission to a [...]

The Armory this year was solid. Pulse and Volta, on the other hand, felt mostly like the art world slinging the same hash we’ve been [...]

The Armory this year is solid: the art on view is good, and there’s very little nonsense. Here are some snapshots: (l-r) Menil Collection associate [...]

UT Press has just published a handsome catalog of Lance Letscher‘s collage work. Like any good catalog (or solo exhibition), it enriches one’s appreciation of [...]