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The first installment of a feature collecting notes and news too short to stand alone. See something interesting? Tell us about it, with a picture, at [email protected]. Rainbow Trees in…

South Korean-born artist Soo Sunny Park has filled the Rice Gallery with an elaborate material world, with which she intends to show us the immaterial. Unwoven Light is a suspended…

Current CORE Resident Madsen Minax hails from Chicago and recently received an Andy Warhol Foundation Idea Fund grant. His film, Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, will  be screened…

Squirrel fetus stew anyone? Homemade pipe bombs to destroy the “technical class?” Smashing windows as an initiation into homicidal mania? Pus-filled gums resulting from porcupine meat lodged at the base…

The exhibition lies in two explorations which converge in the space itself. The physical space acts as a metaphor for the process that an artist goes through while projecting themselves…

Like the swallows of Capistrano, the Drepung Loseling monks return every year to The Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas to spend a week creating a large sand mandala,…

The Dallas Contemporary is a hangar and tends to dwarf anything smaller than a DC-10 that’s parked there. John Pomara’s transparent tapestries were no exception. Though they were six feet…

Art Fairs are the funnest no-fun events in the artworld. Take Dallas, for example: the first thing I saw was this swing, installed on the grassy lawn outside the Fashion…

Credit Sequence -Gray day, I’m on 59, heading down to TSU.  At freeway speed, the weather renders most of the adjacent buildings invisible, only the brightest planes of blue, red,…

A few nights before I saw the Cindy Sherman retrospective at the Dallas Museum of Art, I dreamed about Cindy. Picture a big warehouse building like Warhol’s New York Factory…

Houston artist David McGee recalls an encounter with a Picasso impersonator on TV for videographer John Carrithers.

The art collective Temporary Services’ exhibition at The University Galleries at Texas State in San Marcos acts a tutorial for the social art practice the group engages and promotes. The…

  Newly renovated Blaffer exterior  About three years ago I installed my Master’s Thesis Show at the Blaffer Art Museum. Every piece in my exhibit was ready-made sculpture and vinyl…

You can’t miss the compound on San Antonio’s West Side as it sits in the middle of Leal Street. Warhol-inspired Campbell’s soup piñatas mixed in with lush, green vegetation greeted…

On a late Friday afternoon in March as rush-hour drivers braked their way through the I-10 and Loop 1604 intersection, San Antonio artists got their first formal introduction to the…

Three exhibitions currently on view in DFW highlight work in clay by three artists spanning four centuries.  C.D. Dickerson is Curator of European Art at the Kimbell Art Museum and…

Katie Wynne‘s A chain of non-events at Lawndale is an installation of various bits of crap semi-connected to one another. I don’t say “crap” in a pejorative way. I use it in the way…

I thought the handwritten price list was a humorous commentary on gallerist Paul Middendorf’s expectations for attendance and sales at the grand opening of Gallery HOMELAND!, a warehouse tucked behind…

Even as we tip our Miss CAM crowns to all of those who have shown, celebrated, inebriated and contemplated contemporary art in San Antonio this month, there are still a…

UP Art Studio, an artist-run space managed by Noah Quiles and Elia (Margaret) Quiles, is off the beaten path, a burst of energy and color located at N. Main St.…