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Overall, Jeff Gibbons’ show(s) at Oliver Francis Gallery in Dallas is great—please go see it. It feels a little disjointed, but dealing with it by [...]

Just as Marfa’s Stonehenge (artist Donald Judd’s untitled, half-mile-long series of concrete boxes) beautifully frames and fractures light, landscape, and viewers’ own meditations, so does [...]

I spent the week of May 1-7 in New York to see galleries/museums and attend a curator conference. As an obsessive photo taker, I thought [...]

This fall, in Dundee, Scotland, printmaking professionals from around the world will gather for the 8th annual Impact International Printmaking Conference. With the theme of [...]

A few months back I took a weekend trip to Dallas, and was impressed by the young, vibrant art scene emerging there. Grassroots arts ventures [...]

I’m late on this—the show I am about to review closed last weekend. It has likely been packed up and moved, making space for the [...]

Last week, I hit the long road west from Houston to Marfa to see some films. I didn’t know much about the CineMarfa festival to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The composer John Cage once said, “I really think it’s important to be in a situation, both in art and life, where you don’t understand [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]