Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, is leaving Houston to become the new curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine…

Garth Weiser’s show at The Contemporary Austin made me angry.

Hey artists, according to thuggish Russian despot Vladimir Putin, all you guys have to do is just wake up in the morning in a good mood, and you’ll start painting!!…

Once a year in the summer the excellent Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon stays open very late, turns out the lights, and lets visitors explore the museum by flashlight, where they’re…

The 2017 Houston Artadia awards finalists were announced yesterday: Regina Agu, Catherine Colangelo, Gabriel Martinez, Kaneem Smith, and Sarah Welch. Artadia is a national non-profit organization that supports visual artists…

Christina Rees and guest Andy Don Emmons on torture photos that aren’t staged, an important retrospective in Fort Worth, and Andy’s self-treatment through art. (They also shoot some guns.)

Today, May 31, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston broke ground on the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building. The building, which is to be located where the museum’s main parking lot used…

Today the Austin American-Statesmen reported that the Contemporary Austin will transfer most of its permanent collection to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas. This collection of 700…

For a few hours yesterday, the popular and controversial Fearless Girl bronze statue on Wall Street, who faces off against the iconic Charging Bull, endured having her left leg urinated on by Pissing…

There is an alchemic energy in the pieces, the collage of disparate materials fuse into mysterious and enticing portals. The white walls of the gallery space become infinite.

Austin’s KXAN.com has reported that another company is stealing the artwork of independent artists. Artist Robert Hurst told KXAN about yet another website that has stolen his creations for their…

Happy Memorial Day. Let’s stop to consider the great war photographers, who have not only witnessed the hell, banality, triumphs, and devastation of all of our world’s wars, extensively—starting primarily…

Valenzuela's current show continues the exploration of her familial ties from her perspective as a first-generation American born to Mexican immigrant parents.

Earlier this month, the Art Space Assistance Program was brought before the Austin City Council. The program, which comes after Mayor Steve Adler’s proposals last year aimed at strengthening the city’s music…

This show in Dallas explores the way three artists transform found materials through surprising and minimal interventions.

  Donations to non-profits can be a tricky business, especially when it comes to naming rights. The Dallas City Council voted 14-1 recently to recognize a $22 million gift offered…

"If you're not willing to break your tooth on a piece of buckshot from a bird you killed with your own skill and superior firepower, then you can go be a vegan, missy."

Earlier this week, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opened a new underground parking lot, reports the Houston Chronicle. Located under the museum’s still-in-progress Glassell School of Art building, the garage, which offers…

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Wall Drawings Below are two images: one is an installation shot of the recent Sol Lewitt exhibition Glossy and Flat…

The Southwest School of Art has hired Chad Dawkins to replace Mary Mikel Stump as their director of exhibitions. Stump left the school earlier this year to become the director of audience engagement at the Washington State…