"People of color don't really need white people to speak for them in the art world right now."
March 2017
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This weekend, the Bayou City Art Festival returns to Houston’s Memorial Park. Featuring nearly 300 artists from across America hocking their wares, the festival is an event where you can go…
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Since 1985, the City of Houston has awarded more than 780 Houston artists more than $4.5 million through individual artist grants. Yesterday the Office of the Mayor announced the list…
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News
Social Practice Artist Corrina Mehiel Found Stabbed to Death in DC
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArtist Corrina Mehiel, age 34, was found murdered in Washington, D.C. Her body was found in a basement apartment the afternoon of March 21, reports artnet News. She had been…
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Being the exclusive US partner to Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio sends every year four lucky artists from Bexar county to Berlin. The artists are staggered and follow each…
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Years ago developers started talking about an ambitious project called Flora Lofts, in the Dallas Arts District, that would provide affordable live/work space for dozens of artists (visual artists, musicians, actors, dancers, writers) as…
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News
Trump’s “Border Wall” Shines Spotlight on EP Women’s Filmmaker Collective
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhen Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re…
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Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on craft versus art, Black Lives Matter at Project Row Houses, and flowers as transgression.
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Why would I have ever underestimated the God of Rigor?
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The Unicode Consortium has unveiled its candidates for the next round of available universal Emoji (Emoji 5.0). It’ll be a couple of months before we learn which ones make the…
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Drive By
Something to Watch: Weekly Sculpture Poems from Elaine Bradford & Sara Cress
by Glasstireby GlasstireThroughout the year, artist Elaine Bradford and poet Sara Cress are working together to create weekly “sculpture poems” for their collaborative site Routine Fables. For the project, Bradford creates a sculpture that Cress then responds to.…
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Today the Office of the Mayor of the City of Dallas announced that, as of this coming April 1, Dallas Arts Week has officially expanded into Dallas Arts Month. Mayor…
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News
Another Artist Town Hall Meeting in Houston: Time to Get Political
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArts Take Action Houston (ATAH), an informal coalition of artists and arts activists formed in January, is holding a Town Hall Meeting on April 3 at the Station Museum of…
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This weekend, March 24 and 25 (Friday and Saturday), sees two major public print events in Lubbock. One is the inaugural High Plains Print+Music Festival in Lubbock, which will showcase contemporary…
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Despite the fact that the majority of deficit spending comes from two sources, 1) the military and 2) entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, President Trump wants to raise military…
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Choreographer, dancer, and visual artist Trisha Brown died on Saturday in San Antonio. She had been treated for vascular dementia since 2011, reports The New York Times. A founding member…
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Navigating a historical exhibition like 'Adiós Utopia' can be difficult. The MFAH does a nice job of providing a broad outline, but it's best to find a personal position from which to steer your experience.
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The death of truly fantastic illustrator, film designer, and comics creator Bernie Wrightson was announced yesterday, after his long battle with brain cancer. He was 68. While perhaps best-known for co-creating…
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Last week, we reported on the confluence of art and advertising in terms of artist-deigned billboards. California-based artist Karen Fiorito falls into this tradition with her recent billboard artwork ridiculing President Donald…