The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the recipients of its annual artist awards—the DeGolyer, the Kimbrough, and the Dozier—and this year 11 artists have been chosen. First a refresher on what these three…

Austin’s Umlauf Sculpture Garden is currently hosting the exhibit Mentoring a Muse: Charles Umlauf & Farrah Fawcett. The show focuses on the long-standing relationship between the two artists; while a…

Here’s a clip of Sixto Wagan performing at CounterCurrent’s Ten Tiny Dances. Sixto Wagan performing at Ten Tiny Dances at #countercurrent17 @mitchell_center A post shared by Texas Visual Art (@glasstire) on…

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the return of a beloved art space, artists facing the environmental crisis head-on, and a show of sculptures that charmed the pants off of us both.

Those who were fortunate enough to see the 2010 exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (or elsewhere) know that Hendricks is the…

The Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA, org. 2003) will hold its 15th Annual Texas Art Fair and Symposium on Early Texas Art in Fort Worth…

It’s an interesting undertaking, to set out on what you are doing without knowing what it is.

If you think about it long enough, everything is a sort of performance art, but not everyone knows to call it that. But broadcaster Alex Jones is now a “performance…

Her portraits are always memorable and never boring. Join us for her talk April 29th!

Sterling Allen, the Austin-based artist, co-founder of art collective Okay Mountain, and professor at Texas State University, unveiled some new work in an excellent group show up at Kirk Hopper…

It is fitting that the modest yet noble Rice Gallery should conclude its run with a show that really demonstrates how much you can do with a single room.

Yesterday, people across the world celebrated Easter by taking Holy Communion, a religious ritual that served as Leonardo da Vinci’s subject for his 1490s fresco The Last Supper in the Convent of Santa Maria…

This show echoes the vacillation between release and restraint inherent in the experience of grief, and the sense of both empathy and detachment as we encounter the grief of others.

Of course, watching a movie can’t change the world, but it can start educating folks. Tonight at 7:30pm, Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will screen Gathering Our Hearts At Standing Rock,…

Last weekend, the Houston Art Car Parade celebrated its 30th anniversary with a profusion of events, culminating in a procession of more than 250 vehicles led by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Grand Marshal Cheech…

In our latest Art Dirt podcast, Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss last week’s Dallas Art Fair, a new little fair happening in Austin, and whether there will be another fair in…

This week, Arturo Di Modica, the artist behind Wall Street’s infamous Charging Bull sculpture, called for the removal of the recently installed Fearless Girl statue. In case you haven’t been following the story,…

The Galveston Art Center is hosting a photography workshop led by exhibiting photographer Steve R. Fisher on Saturday, April 15th, from 2 pm – 4 pm. The workshop, part of GAC’s Exhibit-Connect Workshop…

"Humor is useful as a hook and it puts people at ease, and then once you have people at ease, you can do something else to them."

Artist Carolee Schneemann has won the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement, reports Artforum and many other art news sources. A pioneer of feminist performance of the early 1960s,…