This is activist art of the best sort. The overall effect is one of incantation, vigil and ritual.

"After you’ve seen enough of my selfies, I become redundant and blurry, like telephone poles by the highway."

  If you didn’t get your special viewing glasses to view today’s solar eclipse, you can experience it through art. Twitter, of course, has its own “Eclipse Art Gallery,” which…

I think there’s talent everywhere that we don't get to see, and I think that there are artists who are truly deserving and fascinating who we don’t discover.

Derek Jeter, famed former Yankee shortstop, is a new owner of the Miami Marlins, and one of his first priorities is to get rid of Red Grooms’ big kinetic stadium…

This week the media is brimming with ideas for getting rid of suddenly-generally-unwanted statues to the Confederacy. It’s easy to imagine that 50 years from now, it will seem crazy that we had…

Via the New York Times and the LA Times: All 17 members of  President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned today. This is the “latest group to protest Donald J. Trump’s…

After two years of perfecting her process, Crombach returned to Austin to curate a show at Co-Lab Projects' DEMO Gallery.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is asking the City to look into getting rid of the monument to the “Spirit of the Confederacy” in Houston’s Sam Houston Park, erected in 1908…

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has announced that is has received a gift of seven works by American abstract painter Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996).…

Some artists make political work, but some artists should take it literally and run for political office. The New York–based arts advocacy group Fractured Atlas is launching a non-partisan “boot…

"Do you think that you shall never see an artwork as lovely as a tree?”

Really looking forward to seeing this. Touko Valio Laaksonen (1920-1991) made a name for himself as Tom of Finland, the Helsinki-based homoerotic illustrator who pioneered so much of our post-WWII queer…

Gunnar Birkerts, an acclaimed Latvian-American architect based in Michigan, died on Tuesday, August 15 at the age of 92. Birkerts designed the iconic Contemporary Art Museum Houston building, which opened…

Houston personifies both the grim reality of sprawl retail and its possible salvation. There is no reason suburbs and sprawl have to suck.

Tonight, August 16, 6-8pm, hang out with the film community and chat with film programmers from Austin’s SXSW Film Conference & Festival. Houston’s Aurora Picture Show teams up with the…

On Sunday, November 5 at the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Dallas Architecture Forum will host a moderated conversation with Jenny Moore of The Chinati Foundation in Marfa and Joseph Thompson of MASS MoCA (Massachusetts…

The Arts District Houston is a state-recognized cultural district in Houston and home to several converted warehouse studio buildings consisting of more than 300 studios of artists and creative entrepreneurs, as well…

Someone named “Herrozzy” has put together a compilation of scenes from the recent movie Alien: Covenant and compared them to images from art history. Some are more obvious than others,…

Christina Rees and Michael Bise discuss why drawing is (still) so crucial for artists.