Now that the arts are being threatened with defunding, artists, arts organizations and publications are responding to our sociopolitical climate in myriad ways. MoMA reinstalled its permanent collection galleries to feature…

In Rodda's work, we're seeing through so many lenses and types of voyeurism that it feels impossible to parse the ethics of it all, and the work addresses this tension.

Austin’s annual Fusebox Festival has announced the lineup for its 13th iteration this April. Just like the 2016 festival, this year’s Fusebox will feature art exhibitions, theatrical performances, and dance. Also returning are…

The ninth annual Dallas Art Fair takes place this April at its usual venue, the Fashion Industry Gallery (FIG) building downtown, and has announced a list of 2017 exhibitors. The…

University of Texas’ Blanton Museum of Art in Austin has announced a windfall gift of 28 contemporary art videos from the collection of Jeanne and Michael L. Klein, who are Blanton National…

Some thoughts on a few current shows.

[Updated 2/2/17 20:46 pm CST]: In a statement released this morning, Jonathon Glus, the CEO of the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) for the past nine years, announced that he is…

American actress, four-time Emmy Award nominee, six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, and subject of the best selling pin-up poster in history, would have been 70 years old today. In anticipation…

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the wisdom of a nonagenarian artist, the first show at the DMA we’ve been psyched about in a while, and the lure of artists being intentionally opaque.

Most Houstonians have seen Midtown’s “biggest mural in Houston,” Preservons la Creation by French-American artist Sebastien “Mr. D” Boileau. A riff on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco, God is shown…

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has announced its speaker schedule for the upcoming spring season for its acclaimed Tuesday Evenings at the Modern series. Curated by the Modern’s Curator…

Sosnowska's sculptures of mutilated building elements are not creative approximations of architecture; they are staircases and other building elements fabricated to industry specification, distorted and reassembled.

Michael Smith, studio art professor at The University of Texas at Austin has been selected for the fifth edition of the world-renowned Skulptur Projekte Münster (Münster Sculpture Projects) that takes…

President Trump recently signed an executive order to bar citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries (Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Iraq) from entering the US. Just hours after the…

Bryant explores his own relationship with specific figures in art history in an attempt to find new meanings, and perhaps challenge the old ones.

Austin’s Women & Their Work is starting its 2017 Film Series and, so far, the timing is spot on. The first in the series, ! Women Art Revolution, will be…

Whether or not Trump’s presidency ends in a full-scale nuclear war, my generation and plenty of others’ are seeing the wholesale destruction of social contracts and self-evident truths we once took for granted.

Marfa Myths is officially returning for its 4th year of music and art in the hight desert of West Texas. The four-day festival, put on by Ballroom Marfa and Brooklyn-based music…

The surface of jubilant play and imperfection in McNamee-Tweed’s work gives way to a more existential bleakness.

Glasstire is pleased to announce Catherine Opie and Eileen Myles as the Spring 2017 speakers for OFF ROAD: Conversations with Artists Offline. In addition to being longtime friends, Opie and…