It isn’t truly springtime in Dallas until the SpeedBump Art Tour takes over Oak Cliff (or, “the Cliff,” as it is affectionately called)—and this year’s festival is running today, May 20,…

Art League Houston (ALH) has announced the selection of Dr. Kheli R. Willetts as the new Executive Director effective June 1, 2017. Dr. Willetts joins ALH following a five-month nationwide…

This week, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft announced the new class of residents that will participate in their upcoming residency cycle, running from September 2017 to August 2018. The new residents include: Corey…

This is not a straight polemic, but rather something more removed and elusive.

Yesterday, May 17, the State Legislature introduced Texas House Resolution 2132, a bill entitled “2018 Texas State Artist honorees.” Congratulations go out to Fort Worth’s Sedrick Huckaby, who has been…

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on an eerie show in Austin, Roni Horn in Dallas, and a veteran Texas painter’s return to Houston.

Have you ever traveled to dOCUMENTA and thought that there simply wasn’t enough dog-accessible art? Cue dOGUMENTA, an art show engineered specifically for our canine companions. Earlier this month, W Magazine announced…

It’s that time of year again: 500X’s Hot and Sweaty open show in Dallas is upon us. (500X is Dallas’ oldest artist-run co-op.) The call for entries went out yesterday…

I don’t need or expect or even necessarily want the individual works I’m engaging with to want to change the world, or even try.

For fans of American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, producer of the organic coffee “David Lynch Signature Cup,” and founder of a Transcendental Meditation foundation—rejoice! The Museum of Fine Arts,…

The Brownsville Museum of Fine Art will host a new public sculpture at its location just blocks from the Texas-Mexico border; the artist Ron Fondaw will create a large work “centering…

The fourth cycle of the City of Austin’s TEMPO public art program has announced its 2017 participating artists. This year, nine artists or artist teams have been selected to create…

Finding some poetry in a Motorbunny is the kind of problem-solving puzzle I’d like to think all good artists would tackle with real intent.

Last week the Dallas-based artist Colette Copeland sent someone at Glasstire a link to a video by an artist whose work was in a big overseas group show Copeland’s work…

CineMarfa is simply a series of unique cinematic experiences, laid out over four days in May as a montage of creative nudges and existential echoes.

Last week, the White House announced that William Allman, the White House’s chief curator, will retire on June 1. Allman, who has worked in the organization’s Curator’s Office for 41 years, has served as…

On Sunday, May 21, Ro2 Art in Dallas is hosting a panel discussion on feminism and contemporary art, and given the panelists, it promises to be a smart and lively…

In June, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will open Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish, an exhibition of two works by Rist that have been recently acquired by the…

"Did he have a cheek mic? A flesh-toned cheek mic?"

In conjunction with her exhibition “Future Tradition” (2017) at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, TX, Melissa Cody gave a short demonstration of her weaving technique.