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The Exploring Latino Identities series examines issues in Latino/Latin American contemporary art through interviews with artists, art historians, and others. In this installment, Dr. Rex [...]

Leah Meltzer is a young and ambitious performance artist who recently moved to Austin from New Orleans. She attended the Parsons School of Design

This Friday through Monday, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is presenting daily screenings of the rarely seen classic, The Little Fugitive, via a beautiful [...]

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 [...]

The Exploring Latino Identities series examines issues in Latino/Latin American contemporary art through interviews with artists, art historians, and others. In today’s installment, multimedia artist, [...]

Videographer John Carrithers asks Houston artist Emily Sloan what she would be doing if she weren’t an artist: “One thing I almost did was social [...]

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 [...]

Houston artist Chris Cascio calls himself a “functional hoarder;” many of his pieces are diaristic presentations of  collected minutiae. Videographer John Carrithers asks him why.

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 [...]