A few days ago, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Windows 10 update would kill off Microsoft Paint. First released in 1985, Paint was widely used by designers, graphics editors, and bored children alike.…

Today, via the Mayor’s Office of the City of Houston comes the news that Houston’s Office of Cultural Affairs has announced the recipients for this coming fiscal year’s $3.5 million in…

Don’t get me wrong: I’m grateful to see Ai Weiwei's work here in Texas, but its symbolic leverage is skewed here.

Americans for the Arts honored 49 outstanding public arts projects created in 2016 through the Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review program, the only national program that specifically recognizes…

Please allow us to direct you to a wonderful time-suck of a website called Typeset in the Future. The site, by Dave Addey, is “dedicated to typography and iconography as it…

In conjunction with the Dallas Museum of Art’s current sweeping print show Visions of America: Three Centuries of Prints from the National Gallery of Art, the museum will host the Guerrilla Girls’ ‘Käthe Kollwitz’…

A framing store in Florida is putting on an exhibition called “Apes That Paint,” featuring works by Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s chimp, among other “celebrity animals,” reports the Daily Mail. Now…

I've reverse-engineered my way through art history, while maintaining a mild obsession with Smithson and his work. It’s his fault I poured all that grease.

Burning Man is a massive art and music festival that takes place annually in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Featuring large-scale installations and temporary structures, the event has served as inspiration for…

How to make art in this operatic ambience and grim reality of actual deportations, bombings, and general governmental reactionary cruelty?

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss this week's art news.

This week, Discovery Green and Houston First Corporation announced that they have commissioned a site-specific work by Dallas artist collective The Color Condition (Sunny Sliger and Marianne Newsom). Set to open August 17…

I’m going to stop right there. Please stop reading and go.

Take part in the coolest study abroad program: Semester at Sea. You take classes on a boat (12-15 credit hours) while logging 20,000+ nautical miles and exploring world. The Institute for Shipboard…

Earlier this week, Abilene residents noticed unusual decoration on a man’s backyard shed, reports BigCountryHomepage. Tacked up in a salon-style, detective crazy wall fashion on the side of the building and…

The City of Houston has launched an artist residency program. It’s seeking three artists for this round, “…a new, 16-week community-impact artist residency will pair Houston artists with city and partner agencies…

My silly prodding created an opportunity for a profound and provocative response from the museum.

Sugar Land’s Clements High School celebrates after incoming sophomore Adrian Pacini wins top filmmaking honors at the 2017 International Thespian Festival for his short film “Beyond” (below). For almost 80…

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on art you can drink from, art you can sink into, and a museum of toilet seats.

A house in Richmond, Texas (30 miles southwest of Houston) has come up for sale and the pictures of its interior have gone viral. Several websites have reported the owner…