Every season the lecture series Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (at the Modern at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) hosts at least a few international bona-fide bigwigs that…

Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on the best art festival in Texas, art fetishes, and tabletop kinetic art that transcends the desk toy.

Nina Katchadourian’s current survey on view at the Blanton in Austin includes many of the artist’s well-known pieces that span the breadth of her practice. It was a treat, at…

Next week will be all things ceramic in San Angelo. Centering around the San Angelo Ceramic Invitational exhibition at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, there will be tons…

I was glad to be reminded that for many artists, art is still about something other than money or politics.

Saturday, April 29 will mark President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office and he has already inspired two exhibitions in Houston. Although the press release for The First 100 Days:…

A new Texas art-based award, the Richard Brettell Award in the Arts, has given its first $150K prize to internationally acclaimed landscape architect Peter Walker. Walker is best recognized in…

Last week Texas Monthly published an inoffensive little doodad titled “Ten Texas Artists to Collect Now.” We should know better than to let these kind of things drive us crazy, but sometimes…

Even by late Saturday afternoon dealers did not have that thousand-yard stare of bad-fair trauma.

Artist and UT Austin professor Clay Odom will represent Austin at UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN)’s collective exhibition of the nine Media Arts Creative Cities opening in France in late…

This piece is in the small, dark bank vault of Beefhaus in Fair Park. The solo show is by Dallas-based Shelby David Meier. (When a sculpture plays a comedy club.) Shelby David…

This coming Wednesday, April 12th, Fusebox Festival in Austin returns for its 13th year. The festival features a hefty lineup of art exhibitions, theatrical performances, dances, and daily chats supplemented by free waffles, and will run through…

This is the first post in a series of zine roundups where I pull some zines from my library—some old, some new, some from Texas and some from abroad—and give you the lowdown on who made them and what they’re about.

This Wednesday, April 12, Houston’s DiverseWorks will present a lecture entitled “Criticism is Dead. Long Live Criticism.” by Claudia La Rocco, poet, critic, performer, and editor-in-chief of SFMOMA’s Open Space.…

This past Friday, April 7, was Mary Mikel Stump’s last day as director of exhibitions at the Southwest School of Art, reports My San Antonio. Before coming to the Southwest School of Art…

He was going to test the independence of this “Independent” group.

Krause and Winker pass this one to you, constructing a show viewers are invited to project their beliefs into. “Feel free to process,” Krause reckons.

If you’re not at the Dallas Art Fair ogling the seven works the Dallas Museum of Art purchased with their new $100K acquisition program, come down to the 30th annual Houston Art…

In addition to all the work Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) bought at the Dallas Art Fair the other day, the DMA announced that it had just acquired Jackson Pollock’s…

After an election that has thrust the populist forces in America to the foreground and widened the gap between rural and urban cities, “S-Town“, from the creators of “Serial” and…