“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Magnified, molecular-looking things hanging from the ceiling Above: Josiah McElheny’s Island Universe installation which is now on view at the…

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss controversies in the museum world about where the money is coming from.

Michelle Matthews’ site-specific clay sculptures sit on the lawn at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston looking like a cross between termite mounds and figures. Each structure is made of…

Jamal Cyrus and Jamire Williams unpack the possibilities, meanings, and connections of music’s becoming and its contemporary presence.

Today, March 24, 2018, marks the second day of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s eighth Five Funny French Films series. Put on yearly by the museum’s outstanding Film department, the…

Houston Cinema Arts Society (HCAS) has an ongoing collaboration with NASA called CineSpace; it’s an annual international short film competition “that offers filmmakers around the world a chance to share…

LA’s Hammer Museum’s current exhibition, Stories of Almost Everyone, has been deemed by the LA Times art critic Christopher Knight as cold and “pendantic,” reports artnet News. In fact, the…

  This past November Houston gallery Art Palace announced the closing of its physical space as it began to transition to a new business model. Today, Art Palace’s Arturo Palacios and Hilary…

It has long been known that developers follow artists, capitalizing on the cool, cultural neighborhoods. The Nasher Sculpture Center fought for years against the shiny Museum Tower building, which reflected…

Brandon Zech and Rainey Knudson on three different solo shows that highlight three artists’ visual evolution, and a group show where the artwork outshines the show’s thesis.

DiverseWorks in Houston, in partnership with its artist advisory board, has announced the schedule and lineup for the next installment of its popular “12 Minutes Max!” series, which brings you…

This may have been the rock-star artist panel of the year in Texas.

Glasstire, the Statesman, and the Daily Texan have reported extensively on the University of Texas’ removal of books from the UT Fine Arts Library (UTFAL). Now, the Statesman reports that…

Today Art League Houston (ALH) announced the recipients of its annual Houston-centric art awards. For 2018, ALH’s Artist of the Year is Francesca Fuchs; its Lifetime Achievement Award goes to…

This Thursday, March 22, is supposed to be bright and sunny in Galveston, so it’s excusable if folks want to play hooky and head to the beach. Just end the…

A month from now, from April 18-21, museum professionals will invade Houston for the Texas Association of Museums’ annual meeting. Tracing its roots back to conferences of museum professionals in the…

For the time being,  this and other shows like it in this space challenge the momentum and entitlement of gentrified sprawl.

Every artist in this show is a master of their material, and the work is cle-e-e-ean, playful, spooky, and serious all at the same time.

Two decades ago, New York’s Guggenheim Museum opened an exhibition called “The Art of the Motorcycle,” which some considered to be a flashy sell-out show that had little do with…

91-year-old Houston artist David Adickes is known for his large-scale sculptures. If you’ve ever driven from Houston to Dallas, you’ve come across his giant (67 foot tall) concrete statue of Sam Houston,…