Both artists focus our attention on either the built environments that express the aura of unseen inhabitants, or the overlooked areas where nature still thrives but people turn their backs on it.

Gulf Coast, the University of Houston’s literary journal, recently announced The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing, a new award named in honor of the late Toni Beauchamp, who was…

Go see it now! Houston’s Menil Collection is going to shut its doors for eight whole months while its floors are sanded and refinished, reports the Houston Chronicle’s Molly Glentzer.…

"Tierney Malone is a busy man. They call me the James Brown of the art world but I think he might be. If I can nail him down, we work it."

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has approved a grant of $20,000 to support Glasstire in its second round of funding for FY 2017. That’s great news for Texas…

You can only resist something worthy of resisting.

Today Blaffer Art Museum and the University of Houston announced that Houston’s own Toby Kamps is named its new director at Blaffer, after a long international search. Kamps — onetime curator…

The Power Station in Dallas has a new artist exchange residency program called PROXIMIDAD, which has two artists spending time in both Dallas and Guadalajara, Mexico, and culminating in exhibitions…

Artifex.ru, a Russian art advocacy group, released this silly but fun little video on social media earlier this year. It’s actually a nine-year-old animation by a group called Whitehouse Animation…

Aitken's work is uneven, and the Fort Worth show drives that point home. It’s a show I want to like more than I do.

There’s a new nonprofit in Denton called the Denton Music & Arts Collective (DMAC) and first on its agenda is health care assistance for local artists and musicians, reports the…

As of yesterday, June 11, 2017, Battleship Texas is closed indefinitely due to a leak in the ship’s hull. This isn’t the first time the battleship has taken on water; because…

Can we stop using the word “practice” to describe what artists do? Art isn’t free, and it isn’t easy, and artists are not dilettantes. “When you come into the arena,…

The heroines that populate Choi’s work at CAMH are tough, and joy is hard-won in the Cosmic Womb.

For those who have been missing the artifacts and lore of cattle-raising need wait no longer. After almost seven months of renovation, The Cattle Raisers Museum has reopened, reports The…

Splendora Gardens, the historic studio compound of the artists James Surls and Charmaine Locke located in Cleveland, Texas, has undergone a change in leadership which will undoubtedly result in a change in…

"Why doesn't Sam Durant just write a manifesto, or better yet, just get a neon sign?"

Any Houstonian art lover, as well as art lovers throughout the world, knows that we were blessed to be in the company of art curator Walter Hopps. We are now…

The very cool MASS Gallery in Austin is heading into the fifth year for its Hotbox residency program. The gallery space becomes the artist’s studio for a month during the summer. The deadline…

This Sunday, June 11, 2017, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is opening Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish, an exhibition of two works the museum recently acquired from the Swiss…