Years ago developers started talking about an ambitious project called Flora Lofts, in the Dallas Arts District, that would provide affordable live/work space for dozens of artists (visual artists, musicians, actors, dancers, writers) as…

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re…

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on craft versus art, Black Lives Matter at Project Row Houses, and flowers as transgression.

Why would I have ever underestimated the God of Rigor?

The Unicode Consortium has unveiled its candidates for the next round of available universal Emoji (Emoji 5.0). It’ll be a couple of months before we learn which ones make the…

Throughout the year, artist Elaine Bradford and poet Sara Cress are working together to create weekly “sculpture poems” for their collaborative site Routine Fables. For the project, Bradford creates a sculpture that Cress then responds to.…

  Today the Office of the Mayor of the City of Dallas announced that, as of this coming April 1, Dallas Arts Week has officially expanded into Dallas Arts Month. Mayor…

Arts Take Action Houston (ATAH), an informal coalition of artists and arts activists formed in January, is holding a Town Hall Meeting on April 3 at the Station Museum of…

This weekend, March 24 and 25 (Friday and Saturday), sees two major public print events in Lubbock. One is the inaugural High Plains Print+Music Festival in Lubbock, which will showcase contemporary…

Despite the fact that the majority of deficit spending comes from two sources, 1) the military and 2) entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, President Trump wants to raise military…

Choreographer, dancer, and visual artist Trisha Brown died on Saturday in San Antonio. She had been treated for vascular dementia since 2011, reports The New York Times. A founding member…

Navigating a historical exhibition like 'Adiós Utopia' can be difficult. The MFAH does a nice job of providing a broad outline, but it's best to find a personal position from which to steer your experience.

The death of truly fantastic illustrator, film designer, and comics creator Bernie Wrightson was announced yesterday, after his long battle with brain cancer. He was 68. While perhaps best-known for co-creating…

Last week, we reported on the confluence of art and advertising in terms of artist-deigned billboards. California-based artist Karen Fiorito falls into this tradition with her recent billboard artwork ridiculing President Donald…

Harvey is mining the history of gay culture to reveal binaries within which celebrate and dehumanize different modes of sexualization.

Shane Patrick Boyle, the founder of Zine Fest Houston, died this weekend. A creative writing graduate from the University of Houston, Boyle split his time between Houston and Mena, Arkansas, where he cared for…

Last year we reported on the opening of Liquid Crystal, a sculpture created for San Antonio’s Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center by London-based Jason Bruges Studio. The sculpture was almost universally…

Today, March 18, Austin art space Pump Project is hosting a virtual reality experience by Flatsitter, an interdisciplinary collaborative that uses video, film, software programming, performance and installation to comment on…

I realized that for a few days I hadn’t really read the news, hadn’t really felt afraid, hadn’t really felt enraged.