'The X Files' and its tagline “I want to believe” seem pertinent here.

There’s a wonderful piece in the New York Times from August 4th about Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley‘s spinning house titled “Reactor.” The collaborators inhabited a shared space for five days…

Last month, a 90-year old retired German dentist, identified only as Hannelore K., visited Nuremberg’s Neues Museum, where a 1977 creation by the Fluxus artist Arthur Köpcke was on display,…

This summer, the Midwest is getting a little taste of Texas: it was recently announced that Wichita Falls-based artist B.C. Gilbert has been named the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Great Plains Art Museum 2016 Artist-in-Residence.…

Christina Rees takes us through her favorite show of the summer.

This coming week, hip-hop artist Swizz Beatz is launching No Commission NY, a new art fair taking place in the Bronx from August 11-14. The fair, which was first presented in…

Have your camera ready, because that's the prize: the proof that you saw, more valuable than the seeing itself.

Dallas painter Dawn Waters Baker is a recent artist-in-residence of Big Bend National Park, which is a program under the umbrella of the National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF). This September, the work she…

Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on tin foil hats, stapling bananas to walls, and one artist's Instagram followers.

Aside from the plethora of Daniel Anguilu murals blanketing downtown and midtown (and elsewhere), Houston has had tons of mural activity recently. The Houston Chronicle reported on Gonzo247’s latest mural…

Yesterday the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio announced the appointment of its new director. Dr. Rich Aste, currently the Managing Curator at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, starts…

The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington asked the Pokémon game developers to remove the Pokéstops from the museum, stating, “Playing Pokémon Go in a memorial dedicated to the victims of…

This week, the Green Party of the United States is holding its national convention in Houston, from August 4-7 on the U of H campus. In conjunction, the grassroots activist group Move…

If you’re planning on driving down I10 to or from Houston in the next couple months, you should stop at Jerry Mikeska’s Bar-B-Q in Columbus, TX. In addition to food, the restaurant has…

It’s the best Big Show I’ve seen. What happened?

Artists: you can use your skills without the pesky burden of creativity. Today, August 2, is National Coloring Book Day! Sometimes it’s a relief to color inside the lines. Anyone…

For the past week, Los Angeles gallery Cantor Fine Art has been steadily releasing art-related emojis on their Instagram page. A fair share of the images poke fun at modern and contemporary…

I’ve been looking for and dreaming up better art-world applications for Pokémon Go. After a few weeks of playing, I have some ideas.

The Houston Airport System has been a longtime supporter and collector of established and emerging artists from across Texas. William P. Hobby Airport alone has large-scale installations by Chris Sauter, Libbie…

For the past few years, Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds has been working on The Marfa Triptych, a three-part project commissioned by Ballroom Marfa. Part one, a 14-piece band concert, premiered in November of 2013,…