The shows: Paradise Elsewhere & Laura Latimer: Dispersal The venue: BOX 13 ArtSpace The city: Houston The date: May 28 Photographs by Lizette Belen Soto              

The Old Jail Art Center in Albany, TX has recently announced the appointment of Patrick Kelly as the organization’s new Executive Director. Kelly has a long history at the OJAC—he first began working for…

Ronald L. Jones screened various films at Box 13 Art Space. This snippet is taken from “Ten:”, a film documenting Houston artists and their creative process. “I’m careful to choose…

The HCCC residency is the only one of its kind in Texas.

Storms and floods have left some soggy messes and tragedies throughout Texas; yesterday, the governor declared a state of disaster across 31 counties. Meanwhile, in Paris (France, that is), the…

As reported in The Atlantic, a new Russian app called FindFace makes it possible to identify total strangers on the street using your cameraphone and its facial recognition software. The article…

Matty Mo, also known as “The Most Famous Artist“, is selling cash as art for his most recent project titled “One Hundred Thousand Dollars”. Each piece looks to be a…

Witch hunt or public service? Via the Art Newspaper: Last November, the US Senate Finance Committee chaired by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) sent letters to 11 private-collector museums across the country…

Recently, researchers have concluded that the blade of a dagger found buried with King Tut was made using iron from a meteorite: Using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, Italian and Egyptian experts found that…

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on toxic-meets-charming paintings, finally answering the question: “What would you do for love?,” and a new approach to medical body-scanning imagery.

Jerry Ruiz, executive director of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC), has announced his resignation, reports the San Antonio Express-News. Ruiz, who was hired in May of last year, will…

Louisiana Channel, a web platform for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, is a wonderful resource. “The Louisiana team produces videos about art and culture on an ongoing basis, and new…

The voyeur inside any viewer can look as long as they wish without having to be hosed down by the authorities afterward.

Some purple prose on a San Antonio (-ish) rose, courtesy Vice, can be found here. There’s a new book out about them by James Burns titled Let’s Go To Hell: Scattered Memories of…

Takako Tanabe spent her formative years as both artist (a smart one) and museum and gallery employee in Texas, first in the DFW area and then Marfa. She’s about to open up a…

Being a part of the early 80s punk rock scene prepared the entrepreneur Henry Rollins make his creative freedom work for him. He lays it all out on Brian Clark’s…

Moving has never been so easy! View post on imgur.com

Salavon recognizes that when culture feeds itself into large reservoirs of data, there’s a host of new, wonderful and terrible things we can do with it.

There are a number of YouTube videos with lessons on how to paint like Vincent van Gogh, such as this one and this one. Filmmakers Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman…

The great Stephen Curry.