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  Curated by Austin artist Sloke, "Texas Heat" offers a primary- and secondary-colored look at the possibilities and limitations of gallery work that’s strictly inspired [...]

The iPhone app store’s first birthday is July 11, and what better way to celebrate than by downloading apps created by Texas animators? (Okay, there [...]

  Councilmember Sue Lovell recently announced the City of Houston’s new graffiti website, complete with surprisingly detailed fast facts.   For example, did you know [...]

  …except for when he wasn’t.   An oversimplication? Yeah, sure. I assume there’s more of the picture at "Dr. Seuss Wants You!" the exhibition [...]

  In honor of Andrea Grover’s upcoming screening of Astrodome movies at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, I’ve composed a brief ode to the Eighth [...]

All cultural products mirror their society, but perhaps none more so than television. After all, when’s the last time you went to Mexico and didn’t [...]

 A couple of Houston public-art deadlines loom: The Houston Arts Alliance and the convention folks are looking for short videos to be displayed on flat-screens [...]

So there’s this swine flu thing, maybe you’ve heard about it…   I was feeling topical yesterday evening, and I started doing my thing on [...]

If you don’t know what Twitter is, you’ve probably never been on the Internet, but you’re somehow reading this sentence, and, well, that’s what you’d [...]

  Some thoughts on street artists who also sell T-shirts, listed with numbers in front to feign intellectual rigor:   1.) I don’t think there’s [...]

Where’s our bailout? Oh, wait, here it is.   The Texas Commission on the Arts, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, has [...]

Ah, those abstract nouns. Truth. Justice. Beauty. Hope. Liberty. Good. Bad. Whatever. They’re all so open to interpretation, and they’re all so meaningless when designated [...]

No matter that the City of Austin covered them in plastic before South by Southwest; those poles on Sixth Street never stood a chance.

Bad news from Austin: The Shepard Fairey mural, originally scheduled to be installed on Thursday, March 19, on the UT Art Building, has been postponed [...]

All right, so maybe with erotic art it’s much easier to titillate (zing!) the senses, but that didn’t stop me from thinking Aerosol Warfare’s  “Broken [...]

Last week, while writing about the new fountains at 1100 Louisiana, I promised I’d follow up in the event I heard back from property owner [...]

Anyone else out there glad Houston moved Jean Dubuffet’s Monument au Fantome from 1100 Louisiana to Discovery Green?   Ever since I was a kid, [...]

Call it 9/11 for the Houston art world. Okay, don’t, since that would be really inappropriate and way out of line. Maybe Pearl Harbor. No, [...]

You don’t wanna mess with Houston when it comes to the oil industry (we’re looking at you, Dubai), and the locals boys and girls at [...]