Rainey Knudson

Most of the summer shows close this week, so now's your last chance to see them before the onslaught of fall openings! In Houston, Nexus Texas opens at the CAM…

Check out Border Art Dialogue, David Sokolec's blog on the El Paso-Juarez art scene!

Former Core Fellow Demetrius Oliver is in Midnight’s Daydream, an exhibit at Studio Museum Harlem, through October 28. Oliver was a resident at SMH over the past year.

Blaffer Gallery has been putting the dog days of summer to quiet good use: they've been hunting for an architect on their long-awaited new building project. This would have happened…

Dallas' Dunn & Brown Contemporary has hired local designer Rob Dailey to gut and redo their space, in time for their September 7 opening of Vernon Fisher and Gary Panter.…

The MFAH had already planned a retrospective of the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, who recently died on the same day as Ingmar Bergman…go check out the beautiful, the hip and…

Make a note now: Artlies is bringing in NYT critic Roberta Smith for their annual Houston lecture/shindig in November! This should a talk worth hearing.

In Internet news, USA Today reports that bloggers are considering forming a labor union.

Another artist with Texas ties sighted in a shelter rag: former Core Fellow Santiago Cucullu has a piece featured in the July/August issue of Met Home.

Martha Blackwelder, the dynamic curator who oversaw the re-installation of San Antonio Museum of Art's Asian wing, has moved from curating to administration: she's taking the reins at Asia Society…

Houston-based Hines Interests (the developers you can thank for the Galleria) are behind the new Jean Nouvel-designed addition to MoMA in NYC (NB it's not clear whether Nouvel will design…

TONIGHT, Friday, Aug. 3, 6pm onward, is a group show by the UH graduate painting students with a catchy name: Daniel Radcliffe Dong Party (check out the even catchier flyer).…

Houston's Mackey Gallery is back! They've got a fabulous new space constructed from trendy shipping containers, and are opening this Saturday, August 4, 6-8:30 pm with a fantastic-looking show of…

Lawndale's opening their doors to some of the Big Show artists for two big slide shows, August 8-9, 7pm each night!

Yet another Dallas gallery is joining the pack in the design district: Pan American Projects is making the move to Dragon Street in time for their September 8 opening!

The Menil's latest show (which must have been conceived very recently, as it was not included in a calendar of exhibits from this past January) is a retread: curator Franklin…

We were surprised to see Timothy Potts, soon to be ex-director of the Kimbell, noted in yesterday's NYT as a possible successor to Philippe de Montebello at the Met (actually,…

For fans of vintage foreign films, the Fort Worth Modern is doing a series celebrating Janus, the great foreign film distributor of the 1950s and 60s. Renior, Buñuel, Truffaut, Kurosawa,…

Texas artists litter the pages of the current issue of Domino magazine: first off, there's a big spread with Meghan Gerety and Michael Phelan, showing off their Marfa pad; and…

We were so pleased when painter Susie Rosmarin moved back to Houston last year, and now she's curated a cool-looking show at Texas Gallery: Lines features work from an impressive…