Earlier this week, it was widely reported that two students at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland had claimed responsibility for leaving a pineapple in the middle of an exhibition…

"We aspire to surprise and at times disorientate—what we want to provoke is a moment of genuine feeling."

The Texas Budget Conference Committee is meeting today, and this makes it the last day this session to urge them to vote for fully funding for the Texas Commission on…

1. Artist/writer Ryan Estrada started the twitter account @forexposure_txt to share real quotations from real people who want artists to work for free. Some of the best lines (these are…

Every spring, museum professionals and lawyers get together at a conference called “Legal Issues in Museum Administration,” organized by the American Law Institute and cosponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. This…

Brandon Zech and guest host Michael Anthony García on two great shows on UT campus, contemporary Aboriginal art, and some very cool ‘80s film-still paintings by a Texas favorite.

They were exceptional artists and were a community of friends, and that seems like reason enough to put together this show.

Marfa artist Ann Marie Nafziger, who received her MFA degree in painting from the University of Houston in 2008, ran for mayor of Marfa, the West Texas town that most…

Yesterday we published Arie Bouman’s interview with Leigh Arnold, curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center, about a show Arnold is working on about women and Land art. Although several women made significant…

This Sunday the Dallas Museum Art will kick off its new film series, The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. This is an excellent companion to the DMA’s current show México 1900–1950: Diego…

The 6th annual West Austin Studio Tour (WEST) returns for two weekends, May 13-14 and May 20-21. Big Medium is celebrating the 6th edition of WEST with 331 participants: 172…

The Assistant Curator at the Nasher discusses the underrepresentation of women artists in the art world (and what to do about it), her upcoming Land art show, and Dallas' history of women artists.

The The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant program is currently seeking applicants for its 2017 grant process! The application, which closes on May 17, is open to writers who…

“The drive to Prairie View,” both literal and figurative, is a journey many people make.

Okay, Plainview, Texas is not quite technically part of the Panhandle, but a city located in Llano Estacado in the Southwest U.S. Boasting a population of 22,194 (at the 2010…

Good artists can inadvertently unsell themselves by attempting the confident and polished ‘performance’ when they would have been better off grunting for an hour.

A Blade of Grass, a Brooklyn-based non-profit that works to foster the practice of socially engaged art, recently announced their 2017 ABOG Fellows for Socially Engaged Art. Among them are Houston and…

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Cornered       ************* No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else is also…

Today, May 6, two major festivals are taking over Houston: First up is the Menilfest and the Gulf Coast Indie Book Fair running from 11AM-6PM at the Menil Collection. The program will feature…

A little more than a week after Mother’s Day, there will be a panel discussion taking place in San Antonio featuring artists and guests who will talk about “the tangled intersection…