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Those of us who came of age in the ‘80s walk into the show with a sometimes dread-inducing association with that time, but walk out feeling at least a little better about this uneven and unsettling moment in recent art history.

Five visual art events not to miss this weekend, and seven of them are in Austin!

De Kooning’s corner man was the Grim Reaper and Blizard's was Frosty the Snowman.

So what is the value of a good painting? What the market will bear, I suppose, but also the pleasure it offers to the viewer.

This is real art by real working artists. The populist bent was a considered choice. The show’s remit is simply to represent each region in the nation and be a people pleaser.

Big Weekend #2 of the fall art season in Texas, discussed.

The abjectness of the materials evokes a modern-day Robinson Crusoe or the Professor on Gilligan’s Island trying to build low-tech devices out of anything on hand, for sending out an urgent SOS.

The fall art season is cranking up: tasty new shows and events beckon from every side like the nozzles at a frozen yogurt bar —and the gummy worms on top were the 56 booths at this years' early edition of the Texas Contemporary Art Fair.

In keeping with it’s policy of  “Corporate Social Responsibility,” Bank of America has given the Dallas Museum of Art funds  to restore a gem-studded silver display case the museum acquired…

Our top 12 list was just too long, but here's the top half. Myriads of great shows opening this weekend.

Are you the type to ask an artist: "Can you recommend an art consultant who might know if you’re any good or not?"

It’s nice timing that the MFAH’s “Truffaut: On Childhood” series has arrived on the heels of Richard Linklater’s recent coming-of-age film, Boyhood.

At the opening, DJ Thin Mint dressed as the Nance-costumed "Yeti" stole the show. It was a “What the hell is going on here?” kind of thing.

I’ll restate something, for the umpteenth time: People in the art community here are too polite.

Beginning September 1, Houston’s fast-revitalizing East End will host “Transported and Renewed” a two-month series of art projects organized by Houston Arts Alliance. The East End is the city’s historic…

Glasstire Editors Bill Davenport and Christina Rees count down the top five art events in Texas for the week of August 28, 2014

This installation of the Sights Unseen series finds layers of family, history, and memory on display at a Houston cafeteria.

After the beach, old times are Galveston's main attraction. Tintypes and a new Wild West Village pull visitors back into the 19th century, sort of.

It's just too easy to read: graffiti meets Abstract Expressionism, but cleaned up and lacking the hurried rawness or energy of either genre.