Rockport, Texas continues to be post-Harvey resilient. The Rockport Center for the Arts will host its annual Rockport Art Festival this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8, 10am-6pm…

In this week's special Fourth of July video, Christina Rees and Brandon Zech dip into "Ten Texas Artworks About America."

The concept of "America" is hard to pin down. Artists have ways of showing us what we look like, what is lost, and where we're headed.

MASS Gallery, a longtime Austin-based artist-run space, learned this past spring that it will lose its current home to “make room for an internet startup.” Since November of 2013, the…

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced the first awardees of the new grant program Festival Grant via the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA). Sixteen festivals with venues across Houston were selected for funding…

Project Row Houses (PRH) announced yesterday that it will be taking 12 Third Ward-area high school students to Washington, D.C. this summer, in part thanks to a donation by Solange Knowles. On…

This is a quietly furious show with just a lick of humor, a charming presentation, and a bitter finish.

The Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) has announced its grantees for FY19 Artistic Innovation. The seventeen grants, awarded to artists from Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas, include two given…

Photos from the openings at Vaughan Mason Fine Art and Gray Contemporary in Houston on June 30, 2018.

In his work, Arnall tries to come to terms with the long history of American traditions of erasure and violence, through links to his own family.

If Texas’ 2017 bout with hurricanes is any indication of what we can expect in the coming years, the state will need all the help it can get to preserve…

Jim Pirtle performs every once in a while, but nowadays he is probably best known as providing a space for other performance artists in what Houston Press calls “Downtown’s weirdest…

MASS Gallery in Austin, Texas recently put out an open call for its annual Hotbox residency program. Now in its sixth year, the program capitalizes on the art world’s summer slowdown…

If I would prefer to find my pleasures elsewhere than this new direction of museums, then obviously there are artists who are already way ahead of me.

Let’s say you were going to open a bar — maybe a craft-beer place that advertised “hand-pulled pints” and is called like Barley Pilgrim. Most likely you would hire a…

This week, the Houston-based indie band Wild Moccasins released a new album, Look Together. The band has been a part of the state’s music scene since its founding in 2007, and over…

Houston’s Fresh Arts has put out a call for entries to participate in its Winter Holiday Art Market (WHAM), which takes place November 16-18 at Winter Street Studios. That may…

In Houston, The Andy Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund, which is a re-granting program, is administered by the non-profits DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses. Right now the Idea Fund…

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a gallerist turned artist in Dallas, a big group show of emerging Latinx artists in Austin, and the seduction of "mermaid skin" in an immersive show in San Antonio.

A 16th century wooden statue of St. George, in the Church of St. Michael in Estella, a town in northern Spain, was badly in need of repair. The parish priest…