The show: Mujeres del Sur / Women from The South at The Union

During Souza's tenure as President Obama’s photographer, he was conscious of and his work reflected the digitization of the practice of photography.

With such a relatively small selection of works comes the expectation that the show would be exceptionally tight — and it isn’t.

"An artist's life is about continually challenging oneself... . It’s the complete antithesis of emotional and economic security. It’s about challenging people NOT to like what you do."

West Texas-based artist Boyd Elder, who designed the album cover for the best-selling album of all time, died on Saturday night. He was 74.

'Iron Tree Trunk' sits among other trees in the pathways of Laguna Gloria, essentially blending into its surroundings.

Featuring some 150 artworks and artifacts, the exhibition also includes Ruscha paintings, drawings, and photographs that were produced as material for the books or were later instigated by and/or retooled from book project contents. 

The sculptures themselves are described not as installations, but as three-dimensional paintings, or in some cases, “situations.”

Happening annually, the show is guest-juried by a respected curator, writer, critic, or photography expert, who selects two winners from the hundreds of applicants.

"Museums and galleries all over town are showing not just art that has been bought-&-brought to Houston (fabulous as that undoubtedly often is), but art MADE in Houston, by Houston artists, going back to the 1850s and coming up to the day just before Contemporary."

A government-sponsored open call offers artists the opportunity to submit their work to the U.S. Mint.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston recently announced three significant acquisitions of Medieval art, now on view in the  European Art Galleries of the Museum’s Audrey Jones Beck Building.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a faculty show that has our attention, the evolution of Chinati Weekend, and the return of the Texas Contemporary Art Fair.

There's no reason why the opening season for art in DFW doesn’t happen on two consecutive weekends, one for each city. We’ll still show up, guys. Promise.

"Sotheby's saw record participation from bidders and buyers across Texas in 2017, and we see tremendous potential for expanding our relationships throughout the region even further.”

"That physical act of actually inserting myself into a piece of work, into the history of art, is really powerful for me.”

Although the point of the weekend is to welcome Chianti donors and patrons, it's also a three-day block party for Marfa, and attracts art enthusiasts from around the world.

“I hope to build upon the VAC’s legacy as a space for artistic experimentation, innovative programming, and a site for insightful and stimulating conversations about contemporary art to transpire."

"It seems like every museum is Meow-Wolfing."

"Photographs with an Audience plays with that history and questions what constitutes documentation of a performance and what constitutes a discrete art object that is the direct result of a performance."