The Chron’s Douglas Britt looks back at the year in art, handing out kudos to curators Yasufumi Nakamori, Michelle White, Timothy Gonzalez, and Valerie Cassell Oliver. Britt notes the new…
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Swamplot, the Houston Real Estate blog has a jump on the inevitable year-end list phenomenon with it’s 2010 "Swampies." Awards for "best Houston design cliche", "Best Wal-Mart" and "Houston parking…
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After 75 years, Kodakchrome, the first popular color film, is history. The last machine at the last lab to process the legendary slide film, at Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas…
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The CAMH-sponsored screening and discussion of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly well attended by a crowd of angry Houston art lovers at the MFAH’s Freed Auditorum. Curators Bill…
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Jenny Staff Johnson blogs in the Houston Press about Rice University’s new no more "quiet quality" campaign as it tries to crank up its art cred with an ambitious public…
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Wendy DesChene’s upcoming installation, titled WYSIWYG, at the Houston Art League requires old toys, which are dismembered and reconfigured, scraps of previously painted canvas, and willing hands to WYSIWYG it…
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Sam Blaine’s Dallas Art History Blog has arrived, with a first post of nearly 11,000 words aimed at setting the record straight about the Dallas art scene’s injustices and dirty…
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Last week, Travis County contracted to buy a city block from the Austin Museum of Art, the one that the museum had planned, three times, to build on. The latest…
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CT scans made of a collection of fossil dinosaur eggs by Lufkin amateur dinosaur hunter Dr. Neal Naranjo revealed the world’s only known Pterodactyl embryo still in it’s shell! Dr.…
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Houston artists Brian Mahanay and Julie Birsinger were two of seventeen a teams who sculpted hotel rooms from ice in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, just north of the Arctic circle at ICEHOTEL,…
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Today’s Dallas Morning News has a feature on James G. Pepper, a Dallas administrative assistant who is inscribing an illuminated King James Bible in his spare time. The 23-year old…
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The University of Texas’ Videogame Archive was begun three years ago, and the center has amassed more than 1,500 video games and about 200 linear feet of design documents, game…
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From Jackson, Mississippi: Labotanica and They, Who Sound present drummer Alvin Fielder in quartet with: David Dove (trombone) Jason Jackson (alto saxophone) Damon Smith (double bass). Fielder has played with…
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The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY has appointed Andrea Grover, founder of Houston’s Aurora Picture Show, as Associate Curator, picking off another cherry from the top of the Texas…
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Plans and a drawing for the upcoming "Fifth Ward Jam" house-moving project by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck are online at the HAA’s website. The team plans to carve a…
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In today’s Wall St. Journal, Willard Spiegelman rhapsodizes about the Interfaith Peace Chapel in Dallas, a curiously up-to date cement cave that was Philip Johnson’s last project before his death.…
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The Houston Arts Alliance is developing an "internationally recognized" temporary art program, just like Austin’s! HAA’s head of Civic Art & Design, Matthew Lennon, will direct the initiative, described in…
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Glasstire and Fresh Arts coalition are pre-viewing our upcoming silent auction online, allowing holiday-minded arts supporters to make a "preemptive strike and snag an artwork without all that competitive bidding."…
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Need some peace and quiet around the holidays? Or perhaps a place to send out-of-town family and friends? Or maybe a last-minute gift? The Rothko Chapel will be open on…
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Like Glasstire, the Dallas Morning News is struggling to corral substantive info this holiday season; today they ran a piece about the Devil’s Rope Museum in McClean,TX. Located in a…
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