Have your camera ready, because that's the prize: the proof that you saw, more valuable than the seeing itself.
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Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on tin foil hats, stapling bananas to walls, and one artist's Instagram followers.
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If you’re planning on driving down I10 to or from Houston in the next couple months, you should stop at Jerry Mikeska’s Bar-B-Q in Columbus, TX. In addition to food, the restaurant has…
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It’s the best Big Show I’ve seen. What happened?
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I’ve been looking for and dreaming up better art-world applications for Pokémon Go. After a few weeks of playing, I have some ideas.
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Liberals do Trump a disservice when they act like he’s a buffoon. He’s a kind of artist—a dystopian visionary.
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Via Artfcity: “Russian man crashes truck full of yellow paint and reconsiders his life.” When you spill hundreds of gallons of paint in a dangerous highway accident, you get to start…
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Earlier today, Hyperallergic reported that a St. Petersburg resident has expressed outrage over the genitalia of a replica of Michelangelo’s David. The resident claimed that David’s nudity “spoils the city’s historic appearance and warps children’s…
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The show: The Big Show The venue: Lawndale Art Center The city: Houston The date: July 22, 2016 Photographs by Lizette Belen Soto …
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on sofa art, using only the sun to light a show, and Samantha and Rebecca’s slumber party.
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In spite of its subject matter and tone, there is no pitch-black heart in Morris' latest. Instead, we’re offered a serene and absurdist-lite take on the banal that asks audiences to come as they are and unpack as they please.
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The artists in THREE use considerable wit and pathos, and all of the work in the show is meant to address our current political climate.
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Writers know all the good stuff. This came across the wires via the ex-Texas writer Brad Tyer, author of Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape.…
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If you're looking for a joyful or celebratory exhibition about queer issues, you won't find it here.
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ATX has a great new space called de stijl | PODIUM FOR ART. The gallery’s inaugural show, One / Sixth, is comprised of works by six black alumni of the University…
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That’s Right, You’re Not from Texas, but Texas Wants You Anyway: The Art of Bale Creek Allen
Allen manages to capture something essential about the state of Texas in his work, and not in a shit kicking, beer-swilling, dumbly cheeky sort of way.
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Coming soon to Glasstire, the legendary True Artist Tales comic strip by Scott Gilbert!! Gilbert produced the strip, a who’s who for the Houston art scene of the time, from…
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Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on a legend in Marfa and where the cool people will keep cool this weekend.
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Three things attract me most to July’s work, and she hit on them in the Dallas lecture: her refusal to reduce her work to a specific medium or genre, her enigmatic and very flawed characters, and the element of interactivity with real people to activate her work.
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Buying and selling art with people you don’t know over an Instagram post only promotes the exchange of questionable art between questionable people with questionable motives.