The Blaffer Art Museum has canceled the previously scheduled “Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago” exhibition due to the University of Houston’s Centennial Renovation project.
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Jessica Fuentes and William Sarradet discuss the role artists play in enacting political change in their industry and beyond.
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Big Medium, a nonprofit organization in Austin, has announced that it is closing after more than two decades of supporting the local arts community.
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News
The City of Houston Awards Over $14 Million in Grants to Nonprofits and Artists
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs has awarded funds totaling nearly $15 million through various arts and culture grant programs.
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Garland Fielder searches for the best works on display at Zona Maco during Art Week in Mexico City.
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EssayOp Ed
Chicano, Post-Chicano, Latinx, and Rasquachismo: Art Terms That Define, Divide, and Unite
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentJessica Fuentes speaks with Latinx artists and art professionals across Texas to parse the nuances of labels used to categorize works by artists from the Latin American diaspora.
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: Bumin Kim at Anya Tish Gallery, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentA video tour of the exhibition "Bumin Kim: Lingering Light" at Anya Tish Gallery, Houston.
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Kelly Mason reviews a multisensory performance by artist Xxavier Edward Carter at the Golden Blk Candle Lounge.
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News
Three Civil Rights Organizations Demand FWPD Release Confiscated Sally Mann Photographs
by Jessica Fuentes 2 commentsThe ACLU of Texas, along with two other civil rights organizations, have sent a letter to the Fort Worth Police Department demanding the release of Sally Mann photographs confiscated from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s Diaries of Home exhibition.
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: “Beyond Blue” at Art Center Waco
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentA video tour of the exhibition "Beyond Blue" at Art Center Waco.
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This week: the first major retrospective of a pioneer of the Chicano Art Movement in El Paso, a solo exhibition featuring new and historical works by a renowned Texas artist in Dallas, a show of new self-portraits exploring the ambivalence of motherhood in San Antonio, and more.
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Dallas Contemporary’s Board of Directors has announced the appointment of Lucia Simek as the organization’s Executive Director.
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The Houston Arts Alliance has appointed Taylor Jackson as its next CEO; she succeeds John Abodeely, who stepped down from the organization in 2024.
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Review
Jon Revett’s Route 66 Utopia: Where the Past Grows Wild
by Hannah Deanby Hannah Dean 0 commentHannah Dean reviews a multimedia exhibition of work by Jon Revett at CO-OPT Research + Projects in Lubbock.
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: “The HVFA Group Show” at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentA video tour of "The HVFA Group Show" at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston.
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News
The Cedars Union Appoints New Executive Director; Receives $500,000 Gift
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe Cedars Union, a nonprofit artist incubator in Dallas, has named Emma Vernon as its new Executive Director.
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Review
Review: Candace Hicks: “The Story I Tell at Parties”
by Lauren Jonesby Lauren Jones 0 commentLauren Jones reviews an exhibition at Ivester Contemporary that explores memory and its abstractions through hand-embroidered storytelling.
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: Jeanette “Joy” Harris & Molly Koehn at Throughline, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentA video tour of the exhibition "of infinite elastic" at Throughline, Houston.
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Houston Endowment, a private foundation that supports the city’s arts, public parks, civic engagement, and public education needs, has announced the 2025 recipients of its Jones Artist Award.
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ReviewStaff Picks
Mary Virginia Carson: Blazing a Trail for the First Art in Texas
by Gene Fowlerby Gene Fowler 0 commentGene Fowler reviews an exhibition of the watercolors made by Mary Virginia Carson to document West Texas pictographs and petroglyphs.