Paula Newton

Most Texans have seen those blank canvas fiberglass cow sculptures (created by a Swiss sculpture and featured in other international cities) that artists and art classes slap paint on to…

  The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston announced today the appointment of Bradley Bailey as curator of Asian art, reports Artforum. The MFAH has been without a curator in this area…

The Lost Pines Art Center, located in Bastrop (about 30 miles southeast of Austin), is near completion of “a nerve center for arts in Central Texas,” reports the Austin American-Statesman.…

Last week, flyers reading “Beware the International Jew,” “Imagine a Muslim-Free America” and “We Have the Right to Exist” were found throughout the main campus of the University of Houston…

All arts and cultural organizations impacted by Hurricane Harvey need to attend a county mandatory briefing in order to register/apply for FEMA Public Assistance. Registration for FEMA may be a…

The French photographer and artist JR has placed a huge scaffolding installation on the Mexican side of the border between the United States and Mexico reports My San Antonio. The mural…

In a talk yesterday at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Solange Knowles described working with art institutions as feeling that they think “you should just be happy to be…

The Yes Men, collaborative artists and political activists Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, are bringing their shenanigans to the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts next…

The Rockport Center for the Arts (RCA) was scheduled to host the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s annual Birds in Art exhibition starting in September 2017. Then came Hurricane Harvey,…

  Art students at Texas A&M in Bryan-College Station are having a hard time finding art supplies, reports Katherine Garcia of The Battalion. Unlike most college towns with an art…

The Corpus Christi Songwriters promote original music in the Coastal Bend through a monthly local talent show called “In the Rounds.” Usually, it’s a big open mic fiesta but this…

Like most larger cities, San Antonio is struggling with a gentrification problem. The San Antonio Housing Authority is set to demolish part of the Alazan-Apache Courts, with no assurances of…

San Antonio is one of the cities that celebrate World Art Drop Day, organized through the Southwest School of Art. Now in its fourth year, Art Drop Day takes place…

Linda Cathcart, executive director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) from 1979 to 1987, died recently in Santa Barbara, California. While at the CAMH, Cathcart established the Perspectives series…

As he moved into Louisiana, Tropical Storm Harvey left his mess behind in East Texas. The City of Beaumont lost its water supply causing Lamar University, which includes the Dishman…

Across South and Southeast Texas, some museums put out the sandbags and moved art to higher ground, but the extremely unpredictable Hurricane Harvey caught others totally off guard. The Galveston…

While we are all waiting for the horror of Hurricane Harvey to dissipate, “Master of Horror” Tobe Hooper died on Saturday, August 26, in Los Angeles. The New York Times…

Yesterday, ARTnews reported Texas museum closings due to Hurricane Harvey with updates about the Menil Collection and the Galveston Arts Center (buildings: so far, so good). In part, the article…

Houston’s Fresh Arts, perhaps best known for providing opportunities and workshops for artists as well as its annual Winter Holiday Art Market (WHAM), will now take over the management of…

Since 2001, the Studio Museum in Harlem has put on a cycle of exhibitions called the “F-series,” including Freestyle, Frequency, Fore, and Flow. This year’s F show is called Fictions,…