Paula Newton

Amazon Studios has given a pilot order to I Love Dick, a half-hour comedy pilot directed and executive produced by Transparent creator Jill Soloway, according to Deadline.com. Based on Kris…

Okay, it’s not Nina Simone’s birthday yet. The American musical genius, civil rights activist, and all-around bad-ass would have been 83 years old this Sunday, February 21, had she not…

March is Contemporary Art Month (CAM) in San Antonio and everyone knows what that means—some lucky person will be crowned Miss CAM Antonio! The contest is open to anyone currently…

The second annual OUTsider Art Festival starts tomorrow, February 17th, runs through the 21st, and is packed with performance and visual art events at held Salvage Vanguard Theater and several…

The Hunting Art Prize, the annual Texas-wide contemporary art competition that awards $50,000 to the winning artist, is historically the most generous annual award in North America for painting and…

If you haven’t seen the eye-slicing scene at the beginning of Un chien andalou (1929), you haven’t been to art school. Almost 90 years after its release, the Surrealist film,…

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) announced that it has withdrawin as the host for San Antonio’s CAM (Contemporary Art Month) 2016 Perennial. Here is the statement released by Executive…

There have been many musicians who have come out of art school (the Beatles, the Talking Heads and many, many more), but it also works the other way around and,…

One of Texas’ longest-standing photography galleries, Photographs Do Not Bend (PDNB), is moving. Again. Now that real estate developers have figured out that they should follow artists to follow the…

One hundred years ago today, Hugo Ball and other artists opened a nightclub in Zurich and called it Cabaret Voltaire. This was no ordinary club; it was an artists’ hangout,…

June Mattingly died Monday afternoon, February 1, at Baylor Hospital in Dallas, reports the Dallas Observer. Mattingly was the owner and co-founder of the Mattingly Baker Gallery, an avid art…

Artpace San Antonio announced the lineup of artists for the 2016 Spring International Artist-In-Residence Program: Daniel García Andújar of Spain, Wu Tsang of Los Angeles, and Adriana Corral from San…

Frieze has announced that Menil Curator Toby Kamps will serve as its new curator of the fair’s Spotlight section, according to ARTnews. The Frieze Art Fair is an international contemporary…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) announced that Katherine S. Howe, founding director of Rienzi, will retire at the end of June. Rienzi, the MFAH house museum for European…

Even artists have to pay taxes and it’s often more complicated than other people’s taxes. Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (TALA) wants to help. On February 8 at…

Yesterday, Interview magazine published an interview with Houston artist Mark Flood by artist and former Houstonian Will Boone. Besides talking about Flood’s current show, The Future is Ow, at New…

Yes, there are tons of amazing exhibitions throughout Texas up right now and some really interesting performance art happening (see Christina Rees’ recent op-ed “We’re All In This Together, Naked”),…

In the past few years, there has been much discussion over the necessity (or even the feasibility) of a graduate degree in art, considering the expense versus the average income…

Mr. D is at it again. Sebastien “Mr. D” Boileau, a French-American artist who established Eyeful Art Murals and Designs in 1998, is responsible for a number of huge murals…

Main Street Square in downtown Houston is going to have a LOT of art this spring. A series of ambitious, semi-temporary art installations will start popping up between the 900…