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I recently sat down with Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, to discuss (among other things) Declaring Space, his revelatory exhibition of four artists…

Margo Handwerker: "El Soñador Elegante" derives from Miguel de Cervantes’s character Don Quixote of Don Quixote de la Mancha. How many people do you think have read Don Quixote? David…

In 2006 Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, curator of Latin American art at the Blanton Museum of Art, was selected to be chief curator for the sixth Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil.…

Former San Antonio based, now Houston based Augusto Di Stefano uses deliberate marks on canvas and paper to create images that evoke emotional and physical boundaries. He sprays each painting…

The San Antonio new media duumvirate better known as Potter-Belmar Laboratories took a moment to talk to me about new media in TX. Leslie Raymond, head of the new media…

Renée Lotenero received her MFA in sculpture from UCLA in 2004. Her work has been featured in various group shows including Almost 30, a 2006 exhibition at the Ulrich Museum…

Brit artist Tracey Emin is a woman’s woman. She cuts a clear path through the bush — the weeds of yesterday’s feminism, the “ism” without which we’d be nowhere.

Marie Lorenz fabricated a small, precarious kayak and floated down the San Antonio River along the Riverwalk. She consistently revisits themes surrounding waterways, boats and navigation. The New York-based artist…

This year the Creative Research Laboratory (CRL) mounted the traditional summer grad show, except it shifted the structure around: Where typically a two-part exhibition splits the students into two groups,…

Margo Handwerker interviews curator Valerie Cassel Oliver about Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art, on view at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston.

Collecting is a family affair for Houston collectors Robert, Jereann and Holland Chaney, who began assembling their diverse collection of cutting-edge art over 15 years ago. Early on they developed…

Sterling Allen, an Austin artist and co-founder of the gallery Okay Mountain, first came to Glasstire's attention in the Austin Museum of Art's 2005 triennial, 22 to Watch. The following…

Cairo-based Basim Magdy has created two giant installations both inside and outside of Okay Mountain in the most ambitious show to date for this one-year-old artists space.

There is a lot going on in Smile Forever, your current show at Art Palace: paintings, drawings and one giant sculpture. Across the board, your subject seems to be, for…

As the next guest curator to make a mark on Artpace’s residency program, I wonder if you could help me introduce you as a curator to your first Texan audience.

Rita Gonzalez sits down with Adrian Esparza to interview him about his work. Esparza will be included in an upcoming exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art entitled…

Gilbert Vicario is assistant curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He was chosen to curate the United States entry in the 10th Cairo International…

I was introduced to Michael Phelan when he bought a sculpture made by a friend of mine. In the work, a tiny, handwritten message on a stick is propped on a concrete block resting on an old piece of linoleum. I considered it her best work to date and was glad to know that someone else appreciated it as well.

If, as Heraclitus pronounced centuries ago, 'you can't step into the same river twice,' then the Austin Museum of Art's recent joint exhibitions entitled Over + Over and Again +…

Joey Fauerso's residency in Roswell, New Mexico, has given her time from her job as an art educator to focus on her art. I asked her to share her experiences…