Rainey Knudson

Hey, come sing with us Friday, March 30 in Houston at the CAM's Steel Lounge karaoke night, co-sponsored by Glasstire!! Entry is $FREE$, and we'll have great door prizes, courtesy…

Barry Bergdoll, head of architecture and design at MoMA, will be speaking Tuesday, Apr. 3, 7pm at Rice University Herring Hall as part of their joint architecture lecture series with…

Also on the Menil lecture docket is architect Bill Stern on "Preserving the Menil House," Thursday, Apr. 5, 7:30pm at St. Thomas University's Cullen Hall.

Bayou Bend, the American decorative arts branch of the MFAH (and former residence of the famous Ima Hogg), is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year ! They're celebrating with a…

The Arlington Museum of Art has announced that, in view of "very difficult financial times," they are temporarily limiting operations to the parties, exhibits, and summer camps already on the…

The cheesily-named Houston documentary Hot Town, Cool City premieres at the MFAH this Friday-Sunday, 3/30-4/1, with an after party Friday night hosted by Mayor White at Treebeard's downtown (you can…

Check out the new digs for the great Brooklyn blog Art Fag City, which has moved on from blogspot to its very own URL!!

Congrats to Dallas artist Rosalyn Bodycomb, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship!!! She just opened a show of new work at Mulcahy Modern, on view through April 25.

The New Museum is doing a panel discussion titled The "IT" Factor: What Makes Something Hot? They're billing it as "five legendary tastemakers breaking down the cult of cool." Before…

Julie Farr of the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh will be the new director of the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft as of May!

The New Media Studio at UTSA is bringing artists Chris Kubick & Anne Walsh to perform A Thousand Years of Sound Effects on Wednesday March 28, 7pm in the UTSA…

After a hiatus, San Antonio's excellent Triangle Project Space is back!! Congrats to director Luz Maria Sanchez on on a great-looking lineup: the next show, Glitch, opens Thurs, April 5…

Tyler Green's been claiming that Rauschenberg's cardboards (on view at the Menil) were appropriation art and/or inside jokes about other famous artworks. Not sure if we're wiling to go all…

San Antonio artists Alex Rubio (featured on the cover of the winter '06 issue of Bomb) and the awesome Vincent Valdez are opening Pride of the Southside tonight, Thursday, March…

Donald Judd's old pad in SoHo is still being renovated by his namesake foundation, but it's open for tours on Fridays (limited to 8 people, natch).

To be honest, I always thought of Photographs Do Not Bend in Dallas as a nice, rather sleepy little place — until they moved to their great new space in…

Allison Hunter, former director of Houston Center for Photography, has let no grass grow under her feet since leaving HCP last year. Her new work (appropritately titled New Animals) opens…

Critic Johanna Burton will be lecturing at the Glassell on Thursday, March 22, at 7pm!

This'll cheer you up: Fotofest is presenting Guantánamo. Pictures From Home. Questions of Justice, featuring nearly 100 previously unseen photographs and videos gathered by photographer Margot Herster. Opens Saturday, March…

Chicago Public Radio (home of the outstanding Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me) is coming to Texas this weekend with their Listening Rooms series, which presents audio work in theater/cafe/gallery settings.…