Essay

The show is not just romanticizing the artists. It's also nostalgic for a time when art like this could be made and understood. 

I continue to drive down the highways and back roads, as if they are the pages of a book, reading America one town at a time.

The show at Houston Center for Photography, collecting the late Howze’s extraordinary, intimate portraits of Freedmen’s Town residents, is an attempt to slow down a disappearance.

Art-wise, Mexico City is structured very differently from Guadalajara and Monterrey. Here, we would visit residencies, the SOMA school, and artists we had wanted face time with for some time.

Bill Wittliff was one of the most talented and creative people I have ever known. “I saw stories that needed to be told and that needed to be preserved.”

There was a sense of disorientation that stood between us and understanding the city, both geographically and culturally.

In Guadalajara, you get pulled in before you know it, then leave with an even bigger metaphorical family. 

Personal history, heritage, and cultural practice — combined with an ethical concern for the bio-material — contribute to expanding definitions of bio-art.

Scott Walker took an 11-year hiatus before returning for one of the most remarkable final artistic acts in memory.

For the past 24 years, Gallery 414 has survived the rise and fall of other art spaces in the city, and served as a proving ground for artists and curators alike.

I gravitate to HCCC despite my own bullishness regarding art and craft as separate worlds, but I think that’s a testament to everything HCCC gets right.

These houses write their own elegies. Sometimes, they write your personal elegy. Most of my visual life in Texas consisted of these quiet structures. 

Our neighbors in Fort Davis think that we are unbelievers or worse because we do not cover our house with Christmas lights every year.

I’ve been watching the nerds that come to these lectures since 1995.

Pompeo Coppini was unlucky even when he was lucky.

There is great value, Hudnall stresses, in creating artistic documentation of the everyday people and activities in one’s own community.

Glasstire presents the prizewinning entry of the inaugural Glasstire Art Writing Prize, which was open to college students in the North Texas region. Melanie Shi is a philosophy major at the University of North Texas in Denton. 

In 2007, Houston artist Bob Fowler published a how-to book. “Needing a quiet place to draw is a pleasant myth invented by Sunday painters, bless their hearts.”

This is the sixth installment in a series of stories published by artist Hills Snyder in conjunction with his traveling project ‘Altered States’ which opened November 2016 and is still on the move.

Happy Halloween week! These are the purest distillations of a nightmares ever filmed.