Christina Rees

It’s become common practice for Texas cities to designate artists as pre-qualified for upcoming public art initiatives based on a biannual Call for Submissions. The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs…

The Menil Collection‘s Byzantine Fresco Chapel has been empty since 2012, when the Menil deintstalled and sent back to Cyprus the 13th-century Greek Orthodox frescos it was built to house in 1997. The…

The wildfires that burned in and around Bastrop in 2011 destroyed thousands of acres, homes, and businesses. Litigation around this disaster and funds gathered since then are resulting in a planned Lost…

This is timely. The Museum of East Texas in Lufkin, in conjunction with its current exhibition Citizens At Last: The Women Suffrage Movement in Texas, will host a panel discussion…

The Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens is a satellite collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Bradley C. Brooks is its new curator. Bayou Bend Collection, which is 14 acres…

I don’t think what’s going on out there is really art anymore, anyway. It’s showbiz. And most artists aren’t born with a disposition to play that game.

The big annual student expo at 500X in Dallas is often one of the best places to see, under one roof, what Texas art undergrad and grad students are getting…

Both San Antonio and El Paso announced instructions and deadlines for established and emerging artists to pre-qualify for consideration for the next few years’ worth of their public art projects . The…

The Contemporary in Austin–all three of its locations–will play host to the first-ever institutional show of Tom Sachs works in Texas. Beginning in January, Boombox Retrospective 1999-2015 will spread out…

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth is going to start renovations on its facade in early February and construction is expected to take about five months. The museum has…

Can we call Texas’ smattering of outward-looking, wealth-built institutions in semi-rural and rural places “regional,” and if not, what should we call them?

Mark Flood will have a mighty presence during this week’s giant international art shenanigan, Art Basel Miami Beach, which opens to the public Dec. 4. His work will not only show up…

A new film and video showcase organized by the Video Association of Dallas, called the Dallas Medianale, will launch at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas on Jan. 9 and run on…

Art From the Streets is a 22-year-old non-profit outfit in Austin that provides art studio time to Austin’s homeless throughout the year, and in December holds an annual show and…

Daniel Johnston, one of Austin’s most insider outsider artist/musician/personalities, has designed a new mural which will be unveiled on Monday, December 1 at Nau’s Enfield Drug in West-Central Austin. The outside…

For the third installment in a series of globe-trotting portfolios shot for W Magazine, humanoid space alien/Orlando/wonder woman Tilda Swinton descended on The Menil Collection in Houston a couple of months…

Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas held its first CADDFUNd Competition on Nov. 16, and the winner of the contest was a University of North Texas MFA named Julie Libersat. CADD…

If anything, the populations of most Texas cities, and along with it the populations of artists, are increasing, but the number of more traditional galleries with traditional business models feels stagnant.

For your casual weekend perusal, if you wish, here is a set of quick responses I had to some (though not all) of the shows I saw in London last week.

As part of an initiative by still-new Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Gavin Delahunty, the DMA plans to originate more exhibitions of underrepresented artists, and in early 2015 the museum will…