Rainey Knudson

Houston alt-book emporium Domy is opening a space in Austin!! They'll be on Cesar Chavez, down the street from Art Palace and Okay Mountain, opening this Dec/Jan (exact date TBA).…

Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is hosting their 42nd Digital Showcase this Saturday, Sept. 29, 9pm-2am at Club de Ville!! Visual artists will include Austin-based Sean Ripple and Corkey…

Hey Houston artists (OK, artists in a 100-mile radius), don't forget the open call for the '08 Area Show at Blaffer is due November 15!! Blaffer curator Claudia Schmuckli will…

The MFAH has published an impressive tome in conjnunction with the exhibit of the Helen Wiliams Drutt avant-garde jewelry collection, opening this Sunday, Sept. 30. The hefty, 528-pager features color…

It's the Piñata Wars!!! Bill Davenport has a giant black stealth bomber, ready for whacking, in the entry of the Arthouse Texas Prize finalist show. But not to be outdone,…

Hey, we're back from traveling: keep posted soon for NYC pics from last night's Texas Firehouse opening in Queens; the Mike Nelson installation on Delancy, and a photo essay on…

San Antonio's going Yoko Ono: the Japanese artist has a show, Yoko Ono Imagine Peace: Featuring John & Yoko’s Year of Peace, opening Wedensday, Sept. 26 at the UTSA gallery.…

The Orange Show is doing one of their superb Eyeopener Tours on Sunday, Sept. 23, this time heading to Beaumont! This'll be the Beaumont you don't see when crusing down…

In advance of holiday shopping: Houston's Gallery Sonja Roesch has a cool edition of 10 abstract adhesive foils that can be stuck on the wall or framed, by German artist…

Hey, check out painter William Betts' recent foray into rug design, featured in this month's Interior Design!

With Labor Day, we go from the news desert to the news deluge, so here goes: Kelly Nipper's giving a talk at the CAM for the opening of her show…

It's not TX, but we've been following the story (and polling on it, and message boarding it): Roberta Smith reported in the 9/16 NYT that MASS MoCA opened the Christoph…

Fun thing to do: Leslie Raymond's UTSA video art class is holding open screenings this fall. Wednesday, Sept 19, 7-9 pm is a series called "Portrait," featuring work by William…

Former San Antonio artist Vincent Valdez lives in LA now, and he's got a show up at the great space Western Project!! If you're on the left coast, check it…

Congrats to Houston sculptor Katy Heinlein, winner of this year's $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck award at Miami University, which supports national young sculptors!!!

The Menil has named former Pace Wildenswtein director and MoMA senior curator Bernice Berend Rose as curator of its new Drawings Institute! The scuttlebutt on Ms. Rose is very good…

Check out Roberta Smith's review in the NYT of The Geometry of Hope, curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro of the Blanton and currently on view at the NYU Grey Art Gallery!

Two Houston institutions are celebrating their 25th anniversaries this year: Diverseworks, the alternative art space that in its history has survived a major fire and the ups and downs of…

Speaking of Diverseworks, we just noticed that Claude Wampler is returning for a performance this November 9-10. This will be a not-to-be-missed event, as anyone who attended her 2002 "film…

OK, it's a bit Colonial Williamsburg-ey, but north Texans might consider heading to the Grapevine, TX Grapefest this weekend, where the Vetro Glassblowing Studio will feature glass blowing demos. Go…