Brandon Zech

At the end of June, Austin’s city council approved a $925 million bond package that will go before the city’s voters this November. Meant to address the concerns of the…

This past November, Nick Barbee launched Galveston’s Art Lending Library (ALL), a project that allows members to “check out” artworks in ten-week periods, as if they were books in a library.…

The Houston-based arts organization FotoFest announced this week that it is now accepting submissions for the upcoming exhibition, Seeing Harvey: Personal Stories, Public Responses, set to run from September 6 through November…

This coming week, from July 11-13, 2018, the Rockport Center for the Arts is hosting a workshop teaching artists how to use Instagram to market themselves and their work. Taught by Humberto…

This Sunday, July 8, 2018, the Texas-based civic engagement organization Jolt Texas is organizing a caravan from Austin to Brownsville with the goal of using art to protest family separations on the…

Since Hurricane Harvey, cities along Texas’ coast have dealt with the post-storm fallout in a number of ways: in Rockport, a small coastal town in one of the state’s hardest-hit…

Over the past couple years, local governments in a number of Texas cities have commissioned artists to adapt their work to various “urban canvases”: parking meters, recycling trucks, electrical boxes,…

The concept of "America" is hard to pin down. Artists have ways of showing us what we look like, what is lost, and where we're headed.

MASS Gallery, a longtime Austin-based artist-run space, learned this past spring that it will lose its current home to “make room for an internet startup.” Since November of 2013, the…

Project Row Houses (PRH) announced yesterday that it will be taking 12 Third Ward-area high school students to Washington, D.C. this summer, in part thanks to a donation by Solange Knowles. On…

If Texas’ 2017 bout with hurricanes is any indication of what we can expect in the coming years, the state will need all the help it can get to preserve…

MASS Gallery in Austin, Texas recently put out an open call for its annual Hotbox residency program. Now in its sixth year, the program capitalizes on the art world’s summer slowdown…

This week, the Houston-based indie band Wild Moccasins released a new album, Look Together. The band has been a part of the state’s music scene since its founding in 2007, and over…

The Texas Contemporary Art Fair sent out an email recently announcing that exhibitor applications are now open for its 2018 fair. Scheduled to run October 4-7, 2018 at the George R. Brown…

Last week, Dallas-based artist Giovanni Valderas debuted a new public artwork in the Bronx, New York. Part of the project 14X48, which repurposes vacant billboards as public art spaces, the piece draws visual…

"In our four years of operation we have occupied three different spaces, all of which we have lost to development."

Over the past months, we’ve been following the story of the Austin art non-profit Pump Project as it learned that it would be forced to vacate its home of more…

Where your “heart” is? Where your memories are? How does a place change things? How does a place change people? How does the design of the built environment colonize space and nature to manufacture desire in the landscape of capitalism?

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: stained glass Above: interior views of El Tiempo Cantina, a Tex-Mex restaurant on Navigation Blvd in Houston Below: interior…

The University of Houston Libraries Special Collections recently announced that it has acquired the papers of longtime Houston artist Ben DeSoto. DeSoto has been on the scene for over 30 years, woking…