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…

The wonderful Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum (PPHM), an institution under the direction of West Texas A&M University in Canyon (just south of Amarillo), has been quite active over the past few weeks. First,…

If an artist is making a time-based work, it might behoove them to work smart rather than work hard.

For the second year in a row, Dallas artist Misty Keasler has organized the franchised event Slideluck—an outdoor group show/slideshow of artists’ work (plus potluck dinner)—and as with last year,…

As Texans, we are still waiting for our great student. It may be Linklater.

It was almost a year ago when Josef Helfenstein announced his resignation as director of Houston’s Menil Collection to accept a position in Switzerland. Now, the Menil’s board president Janet…

Christina Rees and Michael Bise on Midland versus Odessa culture, painters who can actually paint, and a fond farewell to a cranky Houston artist.

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has named Kathryn Kanjo to succeed longtime director Hugh M. Davies, reports artnet. Currently deputy director at the museum, San Antonians will remember…

Today the San Antonio Museum of Art announced the appointment of Suzanne Weaver as its new Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Good move for the museum. Weaver…

Houston native Mel Chin’s Kickstarter campaign, “The Arctic is Paris,” has three days left to reach its goal. The conceptual/visual/sculptural/surrealist/political activist artist is making a short film “connecting the Arctic,…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced its big upcoming summer exhibition Kusama: At the End of the Universe, which opens June 12. Though an active artist since the 1950s, the 87-year-old…

Not only did Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) Director Bill Arning give a bunch of shout outs to Houston artists (Nathaniel Donnett,Trenton Doyle Hancock, Autumn Knight, Jamal Cyrus and Phillip…