It was announced today that She Works Flexible, a gallery established a year ago by Lynne McCabe, will be closing its doors this spring. In an email, McCabe stated that she’s been battling…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) announced that Katherine S. Howe, founding director of Rienzi, will retire at the end of June. Rienzi, the MFAH house museum for European…

When you enter the fedora-bro black hole of infinite out-of-touchedness, you never get to come back. And it looks like the Oscars are going there this year.

Ever since its designation as a Tier One University in 2011, the University of Houston (UH) has been growing and revamping all of its locations throughout the city. In conjunction with its expansion,…

It's collaboration in a nutshell: people working together, subtly directed by authority, with dissidents pressured to keep their mouths shut.

Do you Instagram every meal you eat? Do you take so many photos that your food gets cold before you can touch it? Or maybe you just want to show the world…

The warehouse that is Spring Street Studios, the artist community in Houston’s First Ward neighborhood, will be the canvas for a new public artwork going up Tuesday, Feb. 2. Local…

Some scenes from last weekend.

Even artists have to pay taxes and it’s often more complicated than other people’s taxes. Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (TALA) wants to help. On February 8 at…

"we are the anonymous army. cross us and you will fail."

SMU’s Meadows Museum, a major collector of Spanish art, has announced its acquisition of the Salvador Dalí painting L’homme poisson (1930). It’s an early and iconic work for the artist, oil on canvas,…

Yesterday, Interview magazine published an interview with Houston artist Mark Flood by artist and former Houstonian Will Boone. Besides talking about Flood’s current show, The Future is Ow, at New…

"It IS druggie. But there’s no correlation to a particular drug."

Yes, there are tons of amazing exhibitions throughout Texas up right now and some really interesting performance art happening (see Christina Rees’ recent op-ed “We’re All In This Together, Naked”),…

Two recent shows essentially brought blatant sexuality back to a basic truth: we are animals, born naked and without self-consciousness about our bodies and our sensuality.

In the past few years, there has been much discussion over the necessity (or even the feasibility) of a graduate degree in art, considering the expense versus the average income…

There’s been some recent shuffling in Houston’s gallery scene. In the past year, both Avis Frank Gallery and McMurtrey Gallery closed, Cindy Lisica Gallery opened, and David Shelton Gallery moved. Now, Sarah Sudhoff, previously the director of…

A friend and I have a theory that all artists, even now, basically split along the Northern and Italian Renaissance divide.

Mr. D is at it again. Sebastien “Mr. D” Boileau, a French-American artist who established Eyeful Art Murals and Designs in 1998, is responsible for a number of huge murals…

We really do get why you might have a dim view of Texas. We just don't agree with you.