Yesterday’s closing party for SITE Houston at The Silos on Sawyer was cancelled, according to the Houston Chronicle, due to permitting problems that may have to do with “life safety” issues. Apparently…

Big Medium just announced an open call for applications for the fifth incarnation of the West Austin Studio Tour (WEST). Piggybacking on the popularity of EAST, Austin’s other studio crawl, WEST is…

FotoFest 16 Biennial is fast approaching, and FotoFest International has released a list of international artists participating in this year’s Houston event of photography and mixed-media arts. Among the list…

Main Street Square in downtown Houston is going to have a LOT of art this spring. A series of ambitious, semi-temporary art installations will start popping up between the 900…

The paintings did not have any beauty to make them timeless, nor any artfulness to position them as anything but a product of rhetoric. I doubted whether they were works of art at all.

Mark Mothersbaugh’s retrospective at the Contemporary Austin opens February 13, and on that very evening, Mothersbaugh himself will host a multi-media night at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. The evening…

Renaissance artiste/actor James Franco never ended up in Texas to explore his poetic self after he was accepted at the University of Houston’s doctoral program in creative writing, but he’s…

"It seems like it's a sexual fetish. It's absolutely not."

Not only are Texas galleries and museums in the midst of a plethora of post-holiday exhibition openings, there are also some fantastic upcoming art talks. Here are a few that…

The scene at Hardy & Nance last weekend.

If a discerning art person from out of town walked into the Dallas Contemporary right now, I think they’d be impressed. This hasn't always been the case.

The Artist Foundation of San Antonio, now in its 10th year, has announced the ten 2015 grant recipients awarded to artists across a broad range of disciplines living in Bexar…

When thinking of Instagramable places in Texas, certain spots come to mind: Prada Marfa, Cadillac Ranch, and Austin’s “i love you so much” wall, to name a few. TIME, however, just released…

Jones and curator Valerie Cassel Oliver treat the entire survey as a single installation.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born 87 years ago on January 15. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968. The civil rights leader accomplished a lot and changed the…

When you see something horrible, a painting is created that hangs in your mind until you die.

The University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts has just announced the lineup for their third annual CounterCurrent festival, happening April 12-17. There will be multiple projects on…

The Orange Show is now taking applications for Houston’s 29th annual Art Car Parade, which is set for April 9th. The entry fee is $35, and the parade does not turn anyone…

When I walked into Celia Eberle's latest show, I felt a familiar rush of being wowed by what she’s made and despairing that it’s not destined for a museum.

If you have seen Island Time: Galveston Artist Residency – The First Four Years at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (on view through Valentine’s Day) and thought that you, too,…