The second annual OUTsider Art Festival starts tomorrow, February 17th, runs through the 21st, and is packed with performance and visual art events at held Salvage Vanguard Theater and several…

The Houston First Corporation recently announced its appointment of Christine West to develop an arts and heritage program for the organization. Her position will include the curating and execution of exhibitions and special events…

The Hunting Art Prize, the annual Texas-wide contemporary art competition that awards $50,000 to the winning artist, is historically the most generous annual award in North America for painting and…

Frank and Houston-based artist, curator and publisher Sally Glass discuss what they've done for love.

Artist Michael Miller died on Friday at his home in Commerce, Texas. He was 54. Represented by Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas and Moody Gallery in Houston, Miller, a painter, was…

"American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood" at Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Pics from the opening of Thorsten Brinkmann: The Great Cape Rinderhorn.

A few days ago we reported on Vigo Expo, a new blog chronicling Lauren Moya Ford’s experiences with contemporary art in Galicia, Spain, and Portugal. We were recently informed by Ford that her…

On Wednesday, the new Houston city council met and complained about having to pay to the artist Ed Wilson for his public artwork* in the George R. Brown Convention Center, voting…

The show is actually a sprawling four-parter, and it expands our own outer-space references with its DIY explorations of stepping away from terra firma and venturing into the atmosphere and beyond.

If you haven’t seen the eye-slicing scene at the beginning of Un chien andalou (1929), you haven’t been to art school. Almost 90 years after its release, the Surrealist film,…

Pics from the opening of Dreaming of You.

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) announced that it has withdrawin as the host for San Antonio’s CAM (Contemporary Art Month) 2016 Perennial. Here is the statement released by Executive…

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on finding menace in artworks, the risk of imaginary worlds, and how great it is when an artist has a good website.

On February 19 in Houston, the Menil Collection’s long-awaited exhibition William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY opens as the first U.S. museum retrospective of this odd and prolific artist’s work. It’s…

Brown uses prints as a tool to plan out ideas for her other works. You’d think this doesn’t make sense: reduction printing is not a time-efficient process for sketching.

There have been many musicians who have come out of art school (the Beatles, the Talking Heads and many, many more), but it also works the other way around and,…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, you have no doubt seen on social media and art publications countless posts from artists, gallerists, and curators…

"I believe that 'funny' works best in its natural habitat. Right in the jungle along with 'awful,' 'sad', 'confusing' and 'nothing.'" - Louis C.K.

One of Texas’ longest-standing photography galleries, Photographs Do Not Bend (PDNB), is moving. Again. Now that real estate developers have figured out that they should follow artists to follow the…