Paula Newton

Robert Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter died yesterday at his home in Manhattan at the age of 73, reports The New York Times. He died of complications from…

  Most art programs teach artists how to make art, how to think about art, and how to talk about art, but few teach how to get art out into…

  There is a relatively new online site, ArtStartArt, exclusively selling work by university level art students. The gist of its purpose is to allow art students to make some…

The Santa Fe-based art collective Meow Wolf is starting a new project in a former Caterpillar plant in South Santa Fe. The space will become art production facility welding, fabrication,…

Today through Sunday (April 21-23, rain or shine). the 2017 Texas SandFest is taking place in Port Aransas, Texas. The event, which began in 1997, turned into a 5-day festival…

Austin’s Umlauf Sculpture Garden is currently hosting the exhibit Mentoring a Muse: Charles Umlauf & Farrah Fawcett. The show focuses on the long-standing relationship between the two artists; while a…

Those who were fortunate enough to see the 2010 exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (or elsewhere) know that Hendricks is the…

If you think about it long enough, everything is a sort of performance art, but not everyone knows to call it that. But broadcaster Alex Jones is now a “performance…

Of course, watching a movie can’t change the world, but it can start educating folks. Tonight at 7:30pm, Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will screen Gathering Our Hearts At Standing Rock,…

Artist Carolee Schneemann has won the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement, reports Artforum and many other art news sources. A pioneer of feminist performance of the early 1960s,…

Next week will be all things ceramic in San Angelo. Centering around the San Angelo Ceramic Invitational exhibition at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, there will be tons…

Saturday, April 29 will mark President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office and he has already inspired two exhibitions in Houston. Although the press release for The First 100 Days:…

Artist and UT Austin professor Clay Odom will represent Austin at UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN)’s collective exhibition of the nine Media Arts Creative Cities opening in France in late…

This Wednesday, April 12, Houston’s DiverseWorks will present a lecture entitled “Criticism is Dead. Long Live Criticism.” by Claudia La Rocco, poet, critic, performer, and editor-in-chief of SFMOMA’s Open Space.…

In addition to all the work Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) bought at the Dallas Art Fair the other day, the DMA announced that it had just acquired Jackson Pollock’s…

Texans for the Arts (TFA), a non-partisan statewide arts advocacy organization that engages Texans in a unified advocacy effort to protect and increase both public and private support for the…

Austin is taking a front seat on the Texan transgender art scene. Yesterday, Reporting Texas published an article entitled “Austin Trans and Queer Artists Seek Visibility Amid Intolerance.” Focusing on…

Josue Romero, a second-year student at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, was arrested and detained by Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday, February 15, reported the…

James Rosenquist died at his home in New York City on Friday, March 31 at the age of 83 after a long illness, reports the New York Times. His survivors…

Employees at the Centre Pompidou (affectionately known by Parisians as the “Bo Bo,” after the area of Beaubourg where the museum is located) have been on strike all week, making…