The Austin arts organization Big Medium has announced that it’s gearing up for a 2017 installment of the Texas Biennial, after a four-year hiatus. The Biennial originally grew out of a 2005 gathering of…

For those hitting the art fairs (the Houston Art Fair and the Texas Contemporary) this weekend—save some energy! Next weekend, the Chinati Foundation is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Chinati’s entire…

The Box Company, a new art space founded by Jason and Nancy Koen, will open its doors this weekend with a show of new paintings by Dallas’ Francisco Moreno. A…

Glasstire's Brandon Zech and Ariane Roesch count down the top five things to see and do when you visit Houston.

Smither Park opened in Houston in 2013 as part of the Orange Show complex of self-taught artist environments. At the time, visionary art collector Stephanie Smither asked Dan Phillips to…

Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on competing art fairs, a woefully overlooked artist, and an Artists Anonymous (AA) meeting this weekend.   1. Dorothy Hood: The Color of Being / El…

Matt Bourbon's show of new paintings ends at Kirk Hopper in Dallas this weekend, and I urge you to see it if you haven't.

It was announced this morning that the Hunting Art Prize is no more, at least for the time being. The juried prize, which for each of the past ten years has awarded…

“You can find pictures anywhere,” Erwitt has said. ”You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.”

ArtPrize, the international art competition held annually in Grand Rapids, Michigan, announced its jurors’ shortlist last night. The twenty finalists will be in the running to win their respective $12,500…

Tonight in Dallas the Nasher Sculpture Center announced that French artist Pierre Huyghe has won the 2017 $100,000 Nasher Prize. (The 2016 recipient, for its inaugural year, was Doris Salcedo.) The Prize…

The Idea Fund wants to give you money for your offbeat idea or, as they put it, “to provide artists with quick access to substantial financial support for projects that…

"It's those little happenings that knit together things in a way where one change will affect all of history in an unfathomable way."

Remember last month when statues of a naked Donald Trump popped up in NYC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland and Seattle? Well, one of those statues is going to be included in Julien’s…

It was announced recently that Christine Gervais has been appointed the new Director of Rienzi, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s off-site museum for European decorative arts. Gervais has worked at Rienzi for the past…

Earlier this week, the MacArthur Foundation released their list of 2016 “genius” grant winners. This year’s round of fellows includes biologists, computer scientists, and many professions in-between. Of the twenty-three geniuses, two have ties…

The Georgetown Arts and Culture Board has put out a call for submissions for “grant proposals for art, music, theatre, and cultural heritage events or projects to take place in…

Jacobs is an aesthetic wizard; there's a refinement to these works that renders them intrinsically alluring. But he does not mask his outrage.

Founded in 2014 in Austin, the Weird Homes Tour is now coming to Houston and, of course, most participants are weirdos (artists and collectors). Yesterday, the Houston Chronicle posted an…

Project Row Houses in Houston has announced the artists for round 45 of its Artist Rounds series, which will open on October 22. Artists Rounds is the signature Project Row showcase…