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July 2014
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San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary has announced its selection of four local artists to take part in three-month residencies in Berlin, Germany: Justin Boyd, Adriana Corral, Jessica Halonen, and Chris…
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When I went to visit Soto: The Houston Penetrable at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, I took six kids along to counterbalance my jaded adult art-critic cynicism.
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This Sunday at 7 pm, the Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson will host artist Bill Daniel for a screening of his 2005 art-film-cum-documentary “Who is Bozo Texino?”, which is a black-and-white…
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The folks who put the Q in QFest are gearing up again for the five-day annual film festival dedicated to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer cinema. It begins Thursday…
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Generous art collector and benefactor Nona Norsworthy Barrett, of Dallas, died last week. She is survived by her husband Richard. There has been no official obituary released as of this…
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Of course it’s hot and muggy in Texas this time of year, but it suddenly seems like it’s literally the dog days of summer around here. If you missed…
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Skin and Bones is an opportunity to see a complete goofball and romantic fall brutally in love with something as fickle as drawing, over and over and over again.
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Tom Tierney, illustrator of the long-running and popular series of paper doll books for Dover Publications, died on July 12 at his home in Smithville, TX at age 85. The…
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The El Paso Museum of Art Foundation, the nonprofit which funds acquisitions, conservation/preservation, education and interpretation, not provided for by the City of El Paso, has announced it’s new executive…
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Galveston has a new monument, a pink dolphin carved from red limestone quarried from Corpus Christi. The dolphin-sized statue, installed at R.A. Apffel Park/East Beach on the island and conceived…
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When’s a treehouse on a freeway? MetroNational, the real estate corporation that runs the Memorial City Mall in West Houston is putting the finishing touches on Treehouse Memorial City, a…
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A popular dog who normally roams freely around Marfa, named Tic Tac but also known as the “Art Town Ambassador” went missing from Marfa just as its Marfa Film Festival was…
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Why would anyone who is truly creative stay in this state if they could live elsewhere?
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There are some smart Houstonians over at Project Row Houses (PRH). They hold a monthly outdoor “Third Ward Community Market and Talent Showcase” but, in the summer months, they don’t…
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Houston Center for Photography (HCP) announces that it is launching a search for a new executive director to lead the organization, effective immediately. Bevin Bering Dubrowski is stepping down…
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The Dallas Museum of Art, under the direction of chief curator Olivier Meslay, has acquired a masterwork by Danish Norweigan painter Johan Christian Dahl (1788-1857). “Frederiksborg Castle by Moonlight,” from…
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The annual Big Show at Houston's Lawndale Art Center isn't the free-for-all it was when it was literally free for all (and curated by Walter Hopps), but I always look forward to it because I'm a hoper.
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Via KLVT Tyler: Last Saturday, an outfit called Therapet held a public event in Tyler in which therapy dogs used “their paws and tails to create one of a kind…
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The DMA has been working to fold conceptual works into the collection that highlight the elasticity of contemporary photography.