Paula Newton

Artforum reports that Evan Garza has been named the new director of Rice Public Art at Houston’s Rice University. A Houston native, Garza has been serving as assistant curator at…

Last Friday, the Art of the World Gallery, owned by Houston residents Liliana Molina and Mauricio Vallejo, opened its first exhibition, reports the Houston Chronicle. The inaugural show featured paintings,…

The Moody Center for the Arts at Houston’s Rice University announced its upcoming schedule of artists and it’s pretty impressive. The Center, which is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration between the…

The Tate announced yesterday that it has appointed Michael Wellen as curator of international art, reports Artforum. Beginning in December, Wellen will work with the art from Latin America in…

Artsy.net released its list of “The 20 Most Influential Young Curators in the United States” and it includes Justine Ludwig, Director of Exhibitions/Senior Curator of the Dallas Contemporary. Ludwig, known…

Something set off Ryland Alexander Gonzalez, a 17 year-old high school student, to prompt him to start stabbing a Styrofoam dinosaur with an X-ACTO knife. When his art teacher asked…

Some places have already celebrated Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), gathering family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and…

The State Fair of Texas, which began on September 30, is on its last weekend. That means that this is your final chance to be greeted by the new Big…

The Houston chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named sculptor Patrick Renner as its artist of the year. Renner, best known for his Funnel Tunnel sculpture on…

A drawing by Houston artist Robert Pruitt was recently spotted in the background of a scene in the HBO half-hour comedy television series Insecure, which explores the “friendship, experiences and…

The legendary songwriter Guy Clark died last May and it turned out that, in his will, he requested that fellow songwriter and celebrated visual artist Terry Allen create a sculpture…

If you haven’t seen PBS’s Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, you’re way behind! It’s now in its 8th season. While the show was originally constructed around artistic themes (spirituality,…

It seems that there was a bit of media intervention during the first and second Presidential debates. A number of viewers reported that, when they paused their televisions, they saw…

Just as the Dallas Museum of Art opens Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt (members-only preview dates are October 6-8), Istanbul honored one of its most famed felines with a…

Don’t bother. They’re here. What’s up with this recent creepy clown situation? Clowns could be considered a form of performance art, but the recent spate of weird, rogue clown sightings…

For those Houstonians who have never visited the Heritage Society Museum Gallery, now is the time. Its current exhibition, This WAS Contemporary Art: Fine and Decorative Arts in Houston 1945–1965,…

The Houston Urban Experience (HUE) Mural Festival, presented by Houston First, is happening again from Saturday, October 15 to Saturday, October 22. Over 100 artists from around the world, including…

Before attending a fundraiser on Friday, Presidential nominee Donald Trump made an impromptu stop at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reports MLive.com. Apparently, Trump and…

For those hitting the art fairs (the Houston Art Fair and the Texas Contemporary) this weekend—save some energy! Next weekend, the Chinati Foundation is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Chinati’s entire…

Smither Park opened in Houston in 2013 as part of the Orange Show complex of self-taught artist environments. At the time, visionary art collector Stephanie Smither asked Dan Phillips to…