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,…

Liberals do Trump a disservice when they act like he’s a buffoon. He’s a kind of artist—a dystopian visionary.

Via Artfcity: “Russian man crashes truck full of yellow paint and reconsiders his life.” When you spill hundreds of gallons of paint in a dangerous highway accident, you get to start…

Yesterday the Galveston Artist Residency announced their 2016-2017 artists-in-residence: Leonardo Benzant, Fidencio Martinez, and Pat Palermo. This year, the GAR received a record number of submissions, and the three artists were chosen by former…

Earlier today, Hyperallergic reported that a St. Petersburg resident has expressed outrage over the genitalia of a replica of Michelangelo’s David. The resident claimed that David’s nudity “spoils the city’s historic appearance and warps children’s…

The show: The Big Show The venue: Lawndale Art Center The city: Houston The date: July 22, 2016 Photographs by Lizette Belen Soto              …

The Museum of Ice Cream opens today! Unfortunately, the pop up museum (up through August 31) is not located in Texas, but in New York‘s Meatpacking District. NYC has not…

(Via Colossal/ArtFCity/Design You Trust): A street artist in France has taken it upon himself to revise ubiquitous (and to many of us, totally opaque) street tags into perfectly legible names, signs…

Earlier this month, the graphic novel, The Incantations of Daniel Johnston, was published. A collaboration between Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo and award-winning author Scott McClanahan, the book has received mostly…

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on sofa art, using only the sun to light a show, and Samantha and Rebecca’s slumber party.