Rainey Knudson

San Antonio's Mayor Hardberger has floated the idea of an arts festival, to tepid response in at least one local pub.

So the Houston Chronicle has gone and compared Houston and Dallas based on the arts (since the Texans are a joke — not that the Cowboys are great, but at…

Artist Elaine Bradford is tearing it up in the next couple of weeks with three university shows outside of TX: at Webster University's Hunt Gallery in St. Louis; in the…

Congrats to Noah Simblist, winner of this year's $1,500 Moss/Chumley Artist Award from the Meadows Museum! The award is given annually to an outstanding North Texas artist who has exhibited…

Lawndale's gotten a little static over their next round of studio residents: one of them, Lynne McCabe, was the chair of Lawndale's programming committee last year (she is joined by…

Reminder to Texas artists: the deadline for Artpace's open call for the '08 season is September 7!

The Amon Carter has reopened after a hard core plumbing overhaul! They've redone the galleries, including making galleries for changing displays off the lobby, and admission is 100% free, even…

The new Core residents have been announced, and their numbers include Houstonian Lauren Kelley! Wow, a Core fellow from Texas — that hasn't happened since Brent Steen went through the…

Atlanta's Romo Gallery is scooping up promising Texas artists: in addition to past shows of Sharon Engelstein (Houston), Joan Fabian (San Antonio), and Juan Miguel Ramos (San Antonio), they're closing…

Hey, have you checked out our blog pages recently? We've recently added two new bloggers to the roll: Austin's Risa Puleo blogs from that city in Art with a Capital…

Dallas collector Bob Butler died Monday, August 20 of pneumonia. He and his partner Sonny Burt have been fixtures of the Dallas art scene for a long time, putting together…

Hunting PLC has put out their call for the '08 Hunting Prize. This year's prize was something of a debacle, in the view of many of the finalists. But Hunting…

The San Antonio space Sala Diaz has consistently been one of the best (if not *the* best) artist-run spaces in Texas for an astonishing 12 years now. Run first by…

Looking to put a little more spam in your life? The artist Conrad Baker is happy to oblige. He's in the Transactions show this fall at the Blanton (curated by…

This is fun: Houston Center for Photography and Aurora Picture Show are teaming up for Txt Me L8r, a party featuring cell phone imagery video projected in HCP's galleries. This…

OK, we teased Houston's CTRL Gallery a few posts ago for not having their lights working at their grand opening earlier this summer. But we stopped by this weekend to…

No, not the adorable PBS series on New England fixer-uppers: This Old House is a collaboration between Diverseworks and Aerosol Warfare, the Houston-based graffiti collective. Go check out the new…

Stay tuned for our Fall Preview, coming Labor Day weekend!!

Houston newbie CTRL Gallery has gotten its lights working, and will even be participating in the Year 07 fair this October in London!

Katherine Bash is giving a talk about her well-received show at Women and their Work in Austin this Saturday, August 18, at 2:30pm!