“Masculinity is a fragile thing.”

It took forever, but semigloss. Magazine’s latest issue, SOUND finally came out last December and celebrated its release at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. This was followed by the “semigloss.…

Over the past six months, Houston’s Menil Collection hosted three lectures by Los Angeles-based sculptor Charles Ray. You may have heard of Ray from a recent controversy where the Whitney rejected a sculpture commissioned from…

Hey artists, want a residency in Houston?? A quick perusal of our Classifieds reveals several upcoming opportunities in the thriving metropolis. Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is looking for artists…

I’d argue that 90% of the most resonant art over the last two centuries has (at least) started out as someone’s particular shot of whisky.

On Thursday March 31, the UT Austin-based group Law Students for the Arts will host a free legal clinic for artists covering a range of issues that affect working artists…

Houston’s East End Studio Gallery is holding its 11th annual Frida Festival, celebrating the life of artist Frida Kahlo. The gallery has sent out a call for entries (of all…

Brandon Zech and guest Melinda Laszczynski on food themes, a shotgun shack, and the lure of Mexico City.

David Hanson, who founded Hanson Robotics in 2003 in North Texas, showed off one of his robots at the recent SXSW conference in Austin. “Sophia” has been described by various…

A recent video entry for the upcoming ArtSmarter Prize.

For the closing reception of the sweeping, excellent John Hernandez non-retrospective show at the Gallery at UTA, the artist will be on hand with his artist books to sign and…

The show: A Diluted Dichotomy, in Houston.

  The charismatic little shotgun shack in Dallas formerly known as RE Gallery is experiencing a phoenix moment: It will reopen this weekend as a gallery called, appropriately, Shotgun. Mark…

With 'Drip Machine' we’re relegated to one viewing angle, which shifts our consideration of it in this context from a sculpture to a piece of cinema.

Apparently some art lovers in Houston aren’t hurting from tanking oil prices: this week, a painting of a clown by a 16-year-old sold for $220,000 at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The painting, by…

Let’s take a moment to contemplate how far into Neverland so many young leftist artists have drifted.

Last month, Dallas’ Goss-Michael Foundation announced their plans to relocate to a “newly renovated warehouse site at 1305 Wycliff Avenue at Monitor Street.” The move was scheduled for mid-March, but has been…

As a conceptual artist and practicing DJ, Boyd approaches each project much like a recording artist developing a concept album.

More fairs, dead ahead! A few weeks ago we announced the roster of exhibitors for April’s Dallas Art Fair, which includes a number of local galleries, but no Houston spaces. And this May,…