Houston artist Brian Piana recently launched his new podcast RGB (A) that will, week by week, chronicle his process as he prepares for his exhibition at the Wright Gallery on the…

Last night, at the historic Houston nightclub Numbers, Aurora Picture Show hosted their yearly screening with the A/V Geeks. The A/V Geeks travel across the US and show selections from their massive…

Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on underdog art schools, hanging with artists at parties, and goofy press releases.

There is going to be a ton of projected art in Texas this weekend! The Aurora Picture Show is putting on its free-for-all BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) at Houston’s…

Turkish Parliament going at it.

This week’s New Yorker cover is all too real. For the past month, my Facebook feed has been bombarded with photos of cheery-faced, cap and gown-clad recent graduates that (mostly) don’t know…

Glasstire Off Road with William Wegman at the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, Rice University, Houston, on April 30, 2016.

Long-time Menil Collection Director of Communications Vance Muse, who retired at the end of last year, has apparently been replaced by pop star Beyoncé. The Houston native often visits the…

But I wish I could have seen him in another spot. A big one with open skies. But I kinda get it. We reap what we sow. And they pay…

Artists finding affordable housing has always been a problem, especially when looking at options designed specifically for artists. Alana Semuels writes in The Atlantic about subsidized housing for artists in Minneapolis: “Set on…

Austin-based artist Jules Buck Jones has designed the official poster for this year’s Austin City Limits. Here’s the full-color version: Here’s the not-really grayscale one: And you can buy one…

The free, annual exhibition, The People’s Gallery, showcasing over 100 local artists has been on view on the first three floors at Austin City Hall since February. Now, some of…

As usual with music, I’m late to the party. Outstanding singer Brittany Howard and co. apparently won a bunch of Grammys this year. This album was number one somewhere. But it’s…

Seth Alverson’s going away party/show was last Friday at Bill’s Junk/Optical Project in Houston. The event consisted of this video showing a spinning figurine that periodically squirted blood from its mouth. Though the…

With Mahaffy's work, we experience a sensory shifting that blurs the boundaries between the present and the past, the real and the virtual.

A message to you all from Frank Artsmarter: “What if you create an art prize that mimics another failed (or postponed) prize—which is itself based on yet another prix of dubious distinction—and…

Architect Alejandro Aravena, the winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize and the executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. in Santiago, Chile, recently released plans to four of his Incremental Housing…

Like music, art doesn’t allow us to transform our nature or bring us closer to some abstract ideal of what we should be. But both help us shift our perspective and allow more stories to come into view.

The Aurora Picture Show’s BYOB (Bring your Own Beamer), an evening of DIY projections covering the façade of the Menil Collection building, had to be cancelled because of the weather.…

Austin Art in Public Places, the city of Austin’s public arts program, recently announced their newest public art commission for Republic Square Park. The work, titled Black Bird, is the project of…