Toilets that have been spray painted gold and labeled “Take a Trump” have been popping up across the country to commemorate President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office. A stencil…

Having trouble sleeping? Sit back, relax, and listen to Jeff Bridges. “One of the things I like to do to relax is hum.” What follows is a 3-minute track that mixes…

Today, Heritage Auctions in Dallas announced that yesterday one of Norman Rockwell’s most iconic works sold for a Rockwell record of $1,332,500 during Heritage’s latest American Art auction. The instantly recognizable…

Kate Wagner, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Conservatory, started the blog McMansion Hell in July 2016 as an attempt to understand why McMansions are the way they are. Using humor and…

Neo-Expressionist painter, sculptor, and jazz drummer A.R. Penck died Tuesday, May 2, at the age of 77 of “a lengthy illness,” reports Artnews. Like his colleagues Georg Baselitz and Jörg…

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on vintage photos from Tornado Alley, an artist who trusts the social contract, and really fast paintings that should be awful but work like a charm.

Art League Houston has been choosing an artist of the year and arts patron of the year for an award since 1983, and this year’s recipients have just been announced.…

The show begins to tell the story of Modernism in a new way, and it's one we all would benefit from knowing.

For its seventh continuous year, the CineMarfa Film Festival will begin its programming tomorrow, May 4, and continue through May 7 in Marfa, Texas. CineMarfa, which emphasizes the intersection between…

Last year the Wichita Falls Museum of Art featured a show by the acclaimed American landscape photographer Frank Gohlke of his photographs of Wichita Falls in the aftermath of a…

In 2015 the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas announced its new microgrant program, which annually distributes small-sum grants to North Texas artists. As it does at the beginning of each May,…

His work’s jumping-off point is his deep disdain for systems—for the nuclear family, for institutions and communities and religions that we’re all pushed through in an endless gauntlet.

There are all sorts of reasons to explain the plethora of “art barns” on university campuses, ranging from the structure was a former stage for building WWII planes to the…

Well worth an hour of your life: the video of Off Road, a conversation between photographer Catherine Opie and Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls and numerous volumes of poetry, hosted by Glasstire in Houston on April 29, 2017.

Last week, Art Market Productions sent out an email announcing that applications are now open for the seventh edition of the Texas Contemporary art fair. Set for October 19-22 at…

The show has a torque to it, an energy, like a suspension bridge.

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth announced the acquisition of a carved limestone Head (c. 1913), by Amedeo Modigliani, one of about 27 surviving sculptures by the artist, reports…

This is worth watching. RIP Glenn O’Brien.     “A bad review… people have to get over the idea that people have power.”  

This week, Ballroom Marfa announced that the organization’s curator, Laura Copelin, has been appointed interim director after Susan Sutton’s departure to pursue “new opportunities in Los Angeles.” Sutton was selected as Ballroom’s…

There is no adjective to this headline because Vito Hannibal Acconci was an American designer, poet, landscape architect, performance and installation artist—and not easy to pin down. Acconci died on…