Christina Rees

San Anto Cultural Arts, a San Antonio-based non-profit arts outfit that gives support to artists and creative people of all socio-economic backgrounds, has just announced its appointment of a new…

500X, the storied building and long-running artist co-op in Dallas, has released two intriguing bits of information. 1) They are hosting something called Project Space Rentals, which is sort of…

I feel for anyone who wants to write for a living and won’t get to do so in an office with other editors and writers.

After Museum Tower in Dallas sprang up three years ago with its accompanying blinding glare– which proved detrimental to its neighboring Nasher Sculpture Center’s whole reason for being– an internationally watched…

There’s been a lot of discussion around this in the past couple of days, of course, but to get a better idea of the big picture, please read Carolina A Miranda’s…

Bill Steffy (William George Steffy), beloved artist and mainstay of the Houston art scene, died this morning. He was 82. Steffy was born in Moline, Illinois, in 1933. He studied…

While reporting on the record-breaking Christie’s auction sale of Picasso’s “The Women of Algiers” ($179 million), Fox News evidently decided that highly abstracted boobs and crotchal regions of the women depicted in…

The established Aurora Festival might be Dallas-based (not to be confused with Houston’s Aurora Picture Show), but you don’t have to live in DFW to be featured. The big multi-media festival,…

Kevin Beasley, the young New York artist on a meteoric rise due to his sound and sculpture hybrids, will be at the Dallas Museum of Art this week, on both May…

In 1988, and an art-appreciation class introduced me to Chris Burden along with the idea that a person would have himself shot or crucified or potentially electrocuted to death for the sake of art.

The board of directors of DiverseWorks in Houston has announced the appointment of Xandra Eden as its new Executive Director and Chief Curator. Eden comes to DiverseWorks from the Weatherspoon Art…

Houston-born movie director extraordinaire Wes Anderson has designed a café for Prada’s new complex in Milan, Italy. Of course it is very Wes Anderson-y (meaning: attention to detail is key), and if it…

Tomorrow, the Texas State Legislature will officially appoint two-dimensional and three-dimensional visual artists (along with representatives of poetry and music) to officially represent Texas for the years 2015 and ’16;…

The Big Show, which is Lawndale Art Center‘s annual juried open show, has been around in one iteration or another in Houston since 1984, and is now open for submissions for…

A brief meditation on the size of Texas and the variety of people and concerns as it relates to art communities, cross-pollination, and even Glasstire.

CineMarfa, the annual art-meets-film festival founded as a non-profit in 2011 in Marfa by Marfa-based film lovers, is going with a science-fiction theme this for this year’s lineup. The screenings…

The five winners for the inaugural session of the new biannual Nasher Microgrant were announced today. The grants are for $1000 each. Here is the list of Spring 2015 winners…

Big news: Twenty works by the prominent African American artist Charles White (1918–1979) have been gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin by Drs.…

Dispatch from Marfa: Tim Crowley, Marfa’s own BMOC (philanthropist/owner of the Crowley Theater/former president of the Chinati Foundation), is in the process of building a new four-story, 55-room hotel in…

For the second year, the Menil (via Aurora Picture Show) in Houston will participate in a new-ish international public art event-slash-series: BYOB. It means Bring Your Own Beamer, and here…