Paula Newton

Austin’s Women & Their Work is starting its 2017 Film Series and, so far, the timing is spot on. The first in the series, ! Women Art Revolution, will be…

A Dallas ISD teacher has been placed on administrative leave for posting a video on social media that shows her shooting a water gun at an image of President Donald…

Earlier this week, the University of North Texas (UNT) held a groundbreaking ceremony of the new building for the College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD), reports the Dallas Business…

Shia LaBeouf, the actor who stubbornly wants to be known as a performance artist, has been invited to participate in Houston’s Experimental Action, a three-day international performance art festival, via…

Keller, Texas, a suburban city in the DFW metroplex (population 40,000), has a mystery graffiti artist and the town seems to love him/her, reports CW33 News. The tunnel under Bear…

Social change can begin with a gesture that communicates at a distance greater than the reach of our voice or the touch of our hand. Perhaps the hand this project…

  Last night, the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University awarded its Moss/Chumley Award to artist Sedrick Huckaby, reports Michael Granberry of the Dallas Morning News. The award is given…

The University of Houston (UH) College of the Arts, formed at the beginning of this school year, is the recipient of a $20 million gift from the John P. McGovern…

  Amy Poehler and Brooke Posch’s Paper Kite Productions has acquired the movie rights to the upcoming Jennifer Mathieu young adult novel “Moxie,” reports Variety. Mathieu, who lives in Houston…

The Texas Medal of Arts Awards has announced 13 honorees for 2017. Since its inception in 2001 by the Texas Cultural Trust, the biennial Awards have awarded 99 medals to…

Two Centuries of American Still-Life Painting: The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection opened this weekend at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and a couple of evenings before, the…

President-elect Donald Trump is not only having a difficult time getting performers to show up at his inauguration, it seems that visual artists are having an equally icky response. Writer…

On January 24 at 6:30pm, Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will host a celebratory reception for the Idea Fund’s twelve Round 9 (2017) grant recipients. Each artist or collaborative will talk…

A chapel in Dallas was vandalized last week in what the church believes was a response to comments made by its senior pastor, Reverend Dr. Neil G Cazares-Thomas, on a…

Texas women are getting some prestigious grants! (See yesterday’s news post.) The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced that Aurora Picture Show Curator Mary Magsamen has received…

Austin’s Farewell Books, the progressive bookshop and art gallery founded in February 2013, will shut its doors at 913 East Cesar Chavez Street at the end of this month. Founders…

Glasstire has followed the ever-goofy (his word is “whimsy”) artist/furniture-maker/sculptor/architect Dan Phillips for quite a while (here, here, here, and many other postings), most recently on his involvement with Houston’s…

When Houstonian James Kenner took his Rodin sculpture up to Fort Worth for a taping of PBS’ Antiques Roadshow, he was hoping to hear that it was worth a few…

Businesswoman Marilyn Johnson moved to Austin in the 1990s and became a docent at the Blanton Museum of Art in 2012. When she visited the museum, reports KUT.org, she realized…

The British art critic, novelist, painter and poet John Berger died today at the age of ninety after a long illness, reports Artforum and the Guardian. Anyone who has studied…