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Last week, I hit the long road west from Houston to Marfa to see some films. I didn’t know much about the CineMarfa festival to begin with, as most don’t.…

Let me introduce to you Karen Weiner, Director, founder and driving force behind The Reading Room at 3715 Parry Ave. in Dallas. Swing the Book Swap on Saturday, May 11…

If you’re anything like me, you probably keep a mental notebook of museums that seem to do consistently interesting work; it’s pages filled with the names of people you’d want…

J. Parker Valentine is an artist who lives in Austin, TX and New York City. Her recent show at Artpace San Antonio extends her drawing practice through sculpture and photography.…

Say you were living in medieval Europe, drinking mead and passing out on a stone table, when a hologram of Carl Sagan beams in and says: “In the year 1961, Yuri…

Houston artist Chris Cascio calls himself a “functional hoarder;” many of his pieces are diaristic presentations of  collected minutiae. Videographer John Carrithers asks him why.

A lot of prints I see these days are quite genteel and pleasant. Printmaking has evolved into a rather polite art form. But this wasn’t always the case—look at Minotauromachy, on…

The composer John Cage once said, “I really think it’s important to be in a situation, both in art and life, where you don’t understand what’s going on.” This small…

British artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are known as much for their beautiful tessellated abstract paintings as their staunch defense of them. Their current show, Suspicious Utopias, at Fort…

1. What’s your favorite merit badge? My favorite merit badge was the “Fingerprinting” badge, which I’m sure they don’t even have anymore. My father was a detective and gave me…

The only time I have had a transcendent experience through art was while visiting Rome—until now. motherf, an exhibition of new work by Celia Eberle of Ennis, Texas, concentrates uncommon…

Public Access, which runs at the MASS Gallery through May 4, purports to accomplish many, many things at the same time. The gallery’s 500-word description of the show is so…

On April 25th, Dallas’ CentralTrak hosted Not Waiting for Permission, the second annual panel discussion on the state of the emerging arts in Dallas, organized by The Green Bandana Group.…

I’m not sure what I expected from “Triple Treat,” the CAMx exhibition at Unit B. I had really high hopes for the exhibition and can honestly say that I’m extremely…

When did modern art arrive in Houston? The thought-provoking timeline put together by Caroline Huber and The Art Guys a few years back for “No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston” at…

At the entrance to Last Resort, a shelf holds a handful of empty wasp nests for our inspection. That is, the nests are empty of wasps. Instead, brightly colored paint…

I had never seen Kelly O’Connor’s work together in one place, one show, one space all at one time until I saw Last Resort at Women and their Work in Austin. O’Connor’s…

Growing up in Austin, the Blanton was our reference during high school art history classes. Even spread across campus from the Harry Ransom Center to the Art Building, the collection…

I recently traded the gritty Houston humidity for the strange sibling rivalry of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Somewhere in the center of this familial spat is the University of Texas…

Forrest Bess (1911-1977) lived a hermit’s life in a cabin in Chinquapin, Texas. In the catalog for the exhibit Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible, Robert Gober writes, “Forrest Bess lived a life…