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This past weekend I went on a film binge and took in a documentary a day for Houston’s Cinema Arts Festival. The highlight for me was Chilean director, Patricio Guzman’s…

Randomly opening Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, takes me to a page with an image of an asymmetrical quilt overflowing with indigo, magenta and crimson polyester squares stacked…

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When I wrote about the show of Qui Anxiong’s animated films at the Crow Collection for a kids’ blog yesterday, I began with a disclaimer about the sometimes mature themes in…

Follow Chupacabrona across the Rio Grande Valley, along the border, and into West Texas, and see challenging contemporary work from this under-reported region. You can donate, too.

I’m a lucky guy. I’ve already outlived Doc Holliday by twenty-four years and just the other day I came upon a new Randy Wallace piece, Postdimensionalman, at Trinity University in…

The new permanent installation at Montrose’s busiest intersection, Montrose and Westheimer, is a laudable example of public art that truly reflects the ethos of its surroundings as well as trends…

I want to call attention to one film in the Cinema Arts Fest that, while nestled quietly and rather buzzless in the schedule between exciting premieres, audiovisual performances, and parties,…

One pitfall of installing dreck on your campus is that future webmasters may feature it online, unwittingly delivering backhanded insults to your university’s programs.

“Roland Reiss, Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s” at the Pasadena Museum of California Art is not part of “Pacific Standard Time.” The Getty-funded project, advertised as a…

Look. We have a problem here that creative people are learning to circumvent. The economy is awful, and while auction-house prices are staying weirdly 1%-er high, the rest of the…

The other night I was having a kind of tepid argument with friends about art. It ended with a friend saying to me, “Well, you are a critic.” It didn’t…

Over October 26 – November 1, I visited New York to trudge through an early snowstorm (and the resulting slush and sludge) to see a round of recently opened gallery…

This Wednesday evening, the third annual Cinema Arts Festival Houston launches five days of film screenings, multimedia performances, video installations, and artist talks in venues around the city. CAFH is…

Rugged individuals call for rugged environments. John Marin (1870-1953) does not render the mythological status in art history of Picasso or Pollock, but his work might be a missing link…

Tony Cragg’s work in Seeing Things at the Nasher reminded me of the iconic Old Man in the Mountain—a perfectly natural, perfectly uncanny male profile formed in a cliff face…

H.R. Pufnstuf’s legacy is alive and thriving and hitting the bong. Yo Gabba Gabba!, the children’s television show that airs on Nickelodeon’s Nick Jr. channel, is gaining fans among an…

A generation after coming-out stories, AIDS and activism, and LGBT and transgender media celebrities, what does contemporary Queer art mean now?

Think of a newlywed couple moving in together for the first time. Writing the prenup was hard and planning the wedding was an emotional rollercoaster, but the work of synchronizing…

Last week we ran a Mad Lib contest during the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, promising fame and free Glasstire t-shirts to our winners. And here they are, selected by the…