It keeps happening every year and it starts up again tomorrow! The Houston Fringe Festival kicks of with a performance by Cirque La Vie. They “showcase their communal love of…

A few days ago, Artnet News reported that pop superstar Madonna wants to take an art world virgin and their lucky plus-one on an all-expenses-paid vacation to Art Basel Miami. There’s one…

A deep interest in aliens is so much a part of our culture that we have movie after movie (not to mention television, novels, comic books…) enthralling us with stories of other worlds and extraterrestrial life.

For years and years, Houston’s Lawndale Art Center’s Retablo show (in conjunction with its Día de los Muertos celebration) has been the most open-call-show-all exhibition around. But like most utopian…

Today, August 21, from 12pm to 2pm, Deborah Colton Gallery is hosting a closing party and Skype interview featuring artist and filmmaker Jonas Mekas in conversation with UH art history professor Natilee Harren…

This is a story of a city’s growing pains in the face of standard gentrification, but with a novel, contemporary twist.

New York-based website/nonprofit Rhizome has a lot going on this month: a few days ago, they announced the winners of their 2016 Net Art Microgrants. Also, they are currently seeking a Software Curator…

If you have yet to receive your yearly dose of Tibetan Monk sand mandala art, never fear—the Asia Society Texas Center has you covered. For the next three days, monks from the Drepung…

Tonight, at the opening of Right Here, Right Now: Houston, Volume 2 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, artist Thedra Cullar-Ledford had a performance where two breast cancer survivors destroyed a boob-shaped…

(Via the Dallas Observer): The Dallas Art Fair‘s founder, Chris Byrne, has created a new director position and filled the spot with Kelly Cornell, an SMU grad who started out…

Saavedra has steadily focused on problems surrounding the divide between authority figures and the marginalized.

Multimedia artist Peter Svarzbein grew up in El Paso, went off to New York to attend the School of Visual Arts (SVA), and eventually made his way back to El…

Identical life-sized sculptures of a very naked Donald Trump have cropped up in NYC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland and Seattle. It’s a selfie bonanza! Stylized but also-kinda-accurate, the statue lacks…

Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on how to sing a show title, old art feeling new again, and how some artists have minions.

“Changarrito” is an art vending cart based out of Mexico. There are multiple Changarrito carts circulating throughout the world— all with the same objective of promoting original artwork to the…

An announcement came through Facebook today that after two years of development, Bike Marfa is up and running. This bike-share program/app in the art-pilgrimage town right now boasts 14 brand-spanking…

Smith’s drawings present a modern mythology, a cautionary tale against a life lived without balance.

Houston, what’s the big deal about the Big Show, Lawndale Art Center’s annual open-call juried exhibition? Well, if you missed last week’s presentation, you missed half of the story. But…

Yesterday the Dallas Museum of Art announced the launch of its own mobile-friendly app—a dedicated and varied way for visitors to interact with the museum’s collections and exhibitions. Remember: the…

What’s made Frank Stella a household name many times over isn’t necessarily what makes him important.