Gentrification is the annoyance of many artists throughout Texas (and elsewhere). Artists, beatniks, and hippies move into a neighborhood because of its cheap rent and make it all cool. Developers…

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on a trampoline as idiot art, mechanical bulls, and a show in a top-secret location.

The show is at its best in inviting the viewer to consider what Modernisms have been left out, avoided, or possibly forgotten.

On Saturday, October 1 at 11 a.m. Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio will host a brunch that will connect the public to its ongoing Berlin residency program. (The annual…

To be a true contemporary art afficianadio, one must also delve into the old and the new, the East and the West. The Islamic Arts Society has announced the Third…

Nothing in a painting is photographically exact, because physically it can’t be, and that’s where the magic happens.

In the tradition of makerspaces like The Crucible in Oakland, CA, Lubbock has a new arts community space, ULabs Makerspace (the U stands in for “ubiquitous”). This is a boon for the…

The thing about performance art (among many, many other things) is the cliché of the spewing, therapeutic peanut butter experience. On the other hand, the freedom and the openness of…

Pluecker writes that a new development in the Houston neighborhood is an “utter abandonment of every political and social goal to which the de Menils dedicated their lives.”

Art League Houston recently announced their 2016 fall call for proposals. Open calls for ALH are put out twice a year—this round’s deadline is November 30, 2016. All submissions will be…

Earlier this week, the New York Times published a beautiful article about the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture. The museum, which has been in the works for…

The playwright Edward Albee died Friday at his home in Long Island, New York. He was 88. The author of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “Three Tall Women” and “The…

Today, September 17, is the second annual Comix Gauntlet at Houston art space Alabama Song. For seven hours today, a select group of artists will each create a seven-page comic from…

San Antonio is about to inaugurate a photography festival called 4×5 Photo Fest. It’s on September 25 at Brick at the Blue Star Arts Complex. Here’s a description: “4×5 Photo Fest will offer educational artist…

When I heard about this show, I thought it strange that an important American artist is having her retrospective at such an out-of-the-way location. But UHCL once played unexpected part in the history of feminist art.

The East Austin Studio Tour (East) is not for a couple of months (November 12-13 and 19-20), but it takes that long to properly strategize for this free, annual, self-guided…

One year before the opening of the Menil’s much-anticipated Menil Drawing Institute, the Institute is losing its (still-new) chief curator David Breslin. He’s headed next month to the Whitney Museum of…

Brandon Zech and guest host Emily Peacock on miscommunication, pushing boundaries in photography and painting, and a show called Hostile.

Former President George W. Bush is set to release a catalogue featuring 66 of Bush’s portraits and a four-panel mural depicting American service members and veterans. Due next February from…

The very popular Maurizio Cattelan retired from art making after his big, well-received Guggenheim retrospective in 2011-12. But five years later, including some production delays, he’s debuting a new work at the Guggenheim…