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Jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran and visual artist Robert Pruitt–both Houston natives–will discuss The Rauschenberg Project: Holed Up, a new multimedia performance inspired by Texas-born artist Robert Rauschenberg that…

This fall, Houston native Jason Moran began a multi-year residency with Da Camera in partnership with the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. Besides working with…

The vision of chaos that greets the viewer at the door strongly asserts Pruitt's unwillingness to supply more of his popular drawings without some conditions.

Hometown hero Pruitt returns to his H-town stomping grounds hot on the heels of a solo show at The Studio Museum Harlem.  

Michelle Obama hosted a luncheon yesterday for about 50 spouses (meaning almost all women) of chiefs of state and heads of government, reports the Associated Press. The event took place…

Two just-opened Galveston exhibitions are definitely worth the trip: Clint Willour’s exhibition of drawings by Robert Pruitt at the Galveston Arts center and a group exhibition of artists riffing on…

Recent drawings by Houston artist Robert Pruitt combine elements of SciFi, hiphop culture, and comic book graphics with black political and social issues.

  Robert Pruitt  – artist, founding member of Otabenga Jones & Associates, TSU visiting professor and sometime Glasstire contributor –  will speak at 5:30 pm, March 14 at Rice Media…

W.E.B. Du Bois created the term “double consciousness” in 1897 to describe the way African Americans split themselves into two personas, one for each side of the color line. The…

Large-scale figurative drawings, sculpture, and video of the Houston-based, African American artist Robert Pruitt address timely political and cultural identity issues often with subtle humor.

Portrait drawings of people existing in flux, illustrating W.E.B. Du Bois’ notion of “double consciousness” via style and dress. Pruitt’s  show This Rejection of the Conqueror opens at the Art…

Robert Pruitt, who came to prominence as a member of Otabenga Jones & Associates and was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, has a new series of drawings, The Forever People, at…

Robert Pruitt @ Hooks-Epstein Gallery through February 13 from Cosmic Light Productions on Vimeo.

Pruitt has been all over this last year from the TX prize show to the Whitney Biennial. Come check out what he has been up to in the last few…

Liz Kim talks with artist Brian Ellison about his recent projects, his relationship with Houston's Third Ward, and his exploration of Black masculinity.

After twenty-five years, Professor Benito Huerta will retire in June 2022 from his position as the Director and Curator of The Gallery at UTA, at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Liz Kim reviews a retrospective exhibition of work by Dawoud Bey, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.