Paula Newton

ArtPrize, the international art competition held annually in Grand Rapids, Michigan, announced its jurors’ shortlist last night. The twenty finalists will be in the running to win their respective $12,500…

The Idea Fund wants to give you money for your offbeat idea or, as they put it, “to provide artists with quick access to substantial financial support for projects that…

Founded in 2014 in Austin, the Weird Homes Tour is now coming to Houston and, of course, most participants are weirdos (artists and collectors). Yesterday, the Houston Chronicle posted an…

Gentrification is the annoyance of many artists throughout Texas (and elsewhere). Artists, beatniks, and hippies move into a neighborhood because of its cheap rent and make it all cool. Developers…

To be a true contemporary art afficianadio, one must also delve into the old and the new, the East and the West. The Islamic Arts Society has announced the Third…

The thing about performance art (among many, many other things) is the cliché of the spewing, therapeutic peanut butter experience. On the other hand, the freedom and the openness of…

The East Austin Studio Tour (East) is not for a couple of months (November 12-13 and 19-20), but it takes that long to properly strategize for this free, annual, self-guided…

Former President George W. Bush is set to release a catalogue featuring 66 of Bush’s portraits and a four-panel mural depicting American service members and veterans. Due next February from…

Margo Handwerker has been named the new gallery director at the Texas State University Galleries in San Marcos. She comes to TSU from UCLA, where she was a Critical Studies…

Did your art history classes leave you dangling somewhere in the art scene of the sixties? The Contemporary Austin has some classes for you. Called “Contemporary Art 101,” the classes are…

As this month’s Food for Thought video program, the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, TX will be showing Leonardo and the Mona Lisa tomorrow, September 13, at noon. Bring…

The Tanne Foundation announced its 2016 award-winners: seven artists and one artist-run organization from across the country. San Antonio-based artist (the Foundation lists him as Crawford, TX-based) Jimmy James Canales…

Earlier this year, the President and First Lady traveled to Austin for the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference. Apparently, Obama was very inspired by the mass meeting of creative thinkers…

The Department of Art and Art History and Visual Arts Center has announced that Jade Walker is stepping down as director of the Visual Arts Center (VAC) as of October…

Okay, Salvador Dali is not on the panel, nor is Jeff Koons or Julian Schnabel, but San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art has put together a program entitled “Working Artists…

The Mystic Lyon window gallery will inaugurate its new space with an installation by Fifth Ward resident and artist Jesse Lott, who will be honored in mid-October by the Art…

As of yesterday, the University of Houston (UH) has a College of the Arts. Rather than falling under the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the new College now…

Now in its tenth year, Corpus Christi’s K Space Contemporary again presents its Third Coast National exhibition, which opens tomorrow night, September 2, from 5:30-9pm. Internationally renowned (but always based…

The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) has a new CEO, reports Molly Glentzer of the Houston Chronicle. After 14 years at Syracuse University, Kheli R. Willetts, Ph.D will…

We thought we’d reached the point at which the political scene couldn’t get any weirder. But yesterday, ET Online announced that former Texas governor and former presidential candidate Rick Perry…