Researchers found large oval structures made out of stalagmites in France’s Bruniquel Cave. Seems like our ancestors also liked to build – “It was like a huge Lego set, a…

Horst Faas, 1965, northwest of Saigon.

This Memorial Day, spend a few minutes reading about Jasper Johns’ monumental work Flag (1955): Perhaps most obviously, Flag serves to question what a painting is, and how it is to…

Last month marked the opening of the new Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art in Victoria, Texas. Founded by South Texas native and longtime Houston Art Car Parade judge Ann Harithas, the museum…

It’s rare that a two-person show harmonizes this well.

Houston-born, San Antonio-based artist Cruz Ortiz has been selected to produce art for the Texas Democratic Convention, reports the Houston Chronicle. The Convention will take place June 16-18 in San…

Enamel pins are the “hot new thing.” This past week, there was even a pin art show in NYC. They are cheap to buy, cheaper to produce, and don’t take…

Earlier today I was watching a documentary about a now defunct Texas art collective Rubber: An Art Mob. In the video, the painter Peter Saul said the following about the idea of gimmick…

There’s a writeup of the great Dallas furniture maker Dan Phillips in Texas Monthly. I first saw Dan’s remarkable pieces at Webb Gallery in Waxahachie. They are the prized antiques of the…

MC Hammer, “the only hammer that hates nails”, shows you how to hang your art without hurting your walls using Command Picture Hanging Strips. “Just click, stick, press, and TADOW!” –…

This show represent a major milestone for the 27-year-old artist as proof of his artistic growth during a two-year period of concentrated work.

It was recently announced that the ever-growing Houston suburb of Sugar Land has installed two sculptures in the city’s Town Square public plaza. The new artistic additions, however, are a far…

Remember that? Nice to grow up with them. Here’s one of the pair. Outside the Crow Collection, Dallas.  

Claire Danes, the star of Homeland (and of course My So-Called Life) will be the full-season host of ART21, (Art in the 21st Century) the Peabody-Award winning PBS series. For this season (the show’s…

Traffic will surely be part of this Memorial Day weekend, as it has always been, thanks in part to the low gas prices. What we need is public transportation that moves…

Like all wonderfully rich cabinets of curiosities, "The Collections" rewards slow and repeated looking.

Two weeks ago, The New York Times reported that researchers from the University of Maryland have found a way to make wood transparent. From the article: Using a two-step process, researchers…

It’s Memorial Day Weekend! The three-day holiday weekend filled with barbeque, beer, and boating accidents is actually a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died…

Tom Michael, founder and General Manager of Marfa Public Radio and longtime West Texas resident, is pulling up sticks to head to Idaho to take up the position of General Manager…

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