Once the visitor has fallen into the trap of the clever exhibition itself, they realize the show sells exactly what it criticizes: the impact of advertising and technology on our physical bodies and our perceptions of spaces.

The shows: Margaret Meehan: And She Was, Shannon Duncan and Delaney Smith: It Will All Come out in the Wash, K. Yoland: Land || Border || Other, The Kenmore: The Slow Game by Sebastien…

The four 2016/2017 residents for San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary‘s fourth annual Berlin residency have been announced. Jesse Amado, Christie Blizard, Joey Fauerso, and Anne Wallace will each have three-month…

Rainey Knudson, Christina Rees, and Brandon Zech on the importance of a great installation, reaction shots, and a load of sad-but-gorgeous photographs.

It should be a compliment to Texas (but it’s not) that the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) has hired the assistant curator of contemporary art at the Dallas Museum of…

“I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.”

Bale Creek Allen is opening a new gallery this weekend in Austin (at 916 Springdale Road, Building 2), appropriately called Bale Creek Allen Gallery. Why do we have high hopes…

Artists would do well to tap their inner revolutionary. The darker chapters of history have a nasty habit of repeating, and disgust is forever.

Dumpsters and underpasses are two common sites of (often illegal) graffiti, but Dallas and Houston will be paying artists to place their work in these locations. Dallas’ Sanitation Services is…

This past week, artist Phillip Kremer was kicked off Instagram. Kremer is known for his grotesque, distorted photographs of celebrities, politicians, and babies, and had been using Instagram to promote his work.…

Now in its third year, Marfa Myths will come to Marfa, TX on March 10–13. Curated by Brooklyn-based record label Mexican Summer and Ballroom Marfa, it’s referred to as a…

I could be convinced by a car show. I’m a sucker for a good anthropological dig into the charred remains of the twentieth century. This is not that show.

While Houston and San Antonio have had a rough start to the year for public art, Austin had a bit of good news this week: it was announced that the Dallas-based Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation…

The newest installment from Frank ArtSmarter.

Last Sunday, Art League Houston announced that the 2016 Charge Grant awardees are Houston artists Autumn Knight and Monica Villarreal, for their project Made of Star Stuff: A Documentary Mapping Women Creatives…

Dutch theorist and artist Samuel van Hoogstraten described landscape artists as “the common footmen in the Army of Art.” Maybe, maybe not.

That $4 million we’re planning to spend on public art this year is apparently THE straw that will break the city’s $2.5 billion total budget.

According to the New York Times, there are only six surviving sculptures by Jackson Pollock. One, Untitled (c.1949) is at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and, now, the Dallas…

"Do you feel like you're seeing a lot of dry, conceptual work right now?" "Yes, I feel very oppressed by that."

Vicki Meek—artist, curator, activist, educator, blogger, DJ, film programmer, and more—doesn’t seem like she would have time for a day job, but after 19 years as Manager of the South…