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.

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.