Paula Newton

A framing store in Florida is putting on an exhibition called “Apes That Paint,” featuring works by Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s chimp, among other “celebrity animals,” reports the Daily Mail. Now…

Sugar Land’s Clements High School celebrates after incoming sophomore Adrian Pacini wins top filmmaking honors at the 2017 International Thespian Festival for his short film “Beyond” (below). For almost 80…

A house in Richmond, Texas (30 miles southwest of Houston) has come up for sale and the pictures of its interior have gone viral. Several websites have reported the owner…

Hector Rodriguez is an elementary school teacher and the creator of the El Peso Hero series of comics, which has recently gained much attention for its Latino superhero who fights…

Southern Living, the magazine that focuses on Southern cooking, Southern homes, and Southern hospitality, has expanded its definition of Southern life to focus on the upcoming third annual HUE (Houston…

An Austin funeral home, Distinctive Life, has installed a sculpture of the letters, “L,” “V,” and “E,” leaving room for selfies to finish the word “LIVE.” It has been displayed…

In Corsicana, Texas (population 24,000), there is an international residency program for artists and writers called 100W. There are fully funded residencies, partially funded residencies, and non-funded residencies. But applications…

Barney Smith has been working on his cultishly famous Toilet Seat Art Museum in San Antonio’s Alamo Heights for more than half a century. But after a extremely long plumber’s…

Yesterday, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced the acquisition of Yayoi Kusama’s All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016), one of the artist’s signature Infinity Mirror…

Aurora, the Dallas biennial public art event of light, video and sound, has announced its curators and theme for its fifth version. Dooeun Choi, Justine Ludwig, and Nadim Samman will…

“Even if people are not painting something hands-on, they’re at least seeing someone be creative and inspire them,” Corpus Christi spray paint muralist Jeremy Flores told the Caller-Times. “People will…

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has partnered with West Elm, retailer of casual chic and not-quite-cheap home furnishings, to create a Rauschenberg collection of stuff for your very own home. They…

In conjunction with the Sawyer Yards Second Saturday open studios, Houston’s Fresh Arts is presenting guided studio tours once a month for the summer. The featured building tour for Saturday,…

A few weeks ago, conceptual and visual artist Mel Chin was honored by Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development with the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award, reports the…

Almost all Texas museums are open today (some close early, but check your local listings), although many galleries are not. If you are lucky enough to have the day off,…

Well, most of us missed it. Trevor Noah’s Daily Show presented a New York pop-up exhibition (June 16-18) of the The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library. Based mainly on…

Partnering with Houston Arts Alliance, Fresh Arts, and the City of Houston, Elia and Noah Quiles of UP Art Studio’s “Mini Murals” project was greenlit in 2015 and kicked off…

A couple of months ago, Glasstire reported on the ambitious project of opening the Contemporary Art Museum Plainview (CAMP) in a small town of 22,000. It is scheduled to open…

At the last Artist Town Hall, presented by Artists Take Action (ATAHouston) at the Station Museum in early April, breakout sessions led to further meetings, ideas, and activism. They are…

Mayor Sylvester Turner is calling for Houston’s best ideas to endorse for the national Our Town grant program. Here is the statement from the City’s Cultural Affairs Office: The National…