The second annual CounterCrawl prepares to collect un-gallery art, a lot of musical performances and an ever-increasing mob to a cityscape that may, at last, not be uninhabitably hot. This…

Under the sign of featured artist Kreg Yingst’s genderless juggler, Bayou City Art Festival(Downton edition) prepares to spew  bad art, good crafts, a mixed bag of performances and ever-increasing crowds…

  Howard Sherman’s in-your-face aesthetic and cartoon-like drawing pays homage to Keith Haring and especially Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose street-art inspired paintings ran counter to the Minimalist establishment.   Their art challenged…

The latest post in Blaffer Blastoff, the Museum-on-hold’s renovation blog, designed to fill the dead air in their many social media outlets, is a comedy sketch. Rather than provide information…

  Houston Center for Photography is looking for contestants for its 2012 Phototography Fellowships. Two fellowship recipients, one from within 100 miles of Houston and one from anywhere,  will be…

Gas up the car and  pick up some lip balm, it’s Open House weekend at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa. This year, their 25th anniversary, is marked by two special…

Houston artist Chuck Ivy will be the 2012 Glasstire virtual artist in residence, selected  by jurors Brian Piana (our last VR) and Abinadi Meza. Ivy described himself as “a man…

In a tail-swallowing measure, San Antonio’s StoneMetal press will be auctioning off five years worth of large-scale prints to make space for future large scale printmaking! Bidding in the silent…

The MTV Staying Alive Foundation announced that the inaugural MTV RE:DEFINE art exhibition and auction, held at the Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas, has raised more than $770,000 for the charity,…

Music and stories celebrating Houston’s historic Fifth Ward celebrate the opening of Dean Ruck and Dan Havel’s bungalow-turned-folk-art-cathedral, Fifth Ward Jam  this afternoon, Saturday, Oct 1. Beginning at 4:30 p.m.…

Start choosing you outfit: Nancy Clarke, former Chief Floral Designer at the White House will share her behind-the-scenes stories and demonstrate floral arrangements at the annual Art in Bloom League…

Small Texas towns are easy to stereotype, and often, those generalizations prove themselves to be true.  Conservative politics, high school football, and abundant red meat are just a few that…

The opening weekend for El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa at the Blanton Museum in Austin logged over 4,275 visitors between September 22-25. A talk by…

It’s State Fair time again. I haven’t been in nearly a decade, but I’ve promised my small people I’ll go this year. I look forward to it with a kind…

  Heritage Auctions, “The World’s Third Largest Auction house” will sell off more than 250 modern and contemporary artworks that once belonged to Dr. Edmund “Ted” Pillsbury, Dallas art dealer…

Somewhere between childhood wonder and adult disillusionment, Kelly O’Connor is creating a psychic landscape from fragments of familiar movies, TV shows, vacationlands and fairy tales. While she’s been making the…

Houston’s Channel 13 News ran a lengthy (for local TV news) bit comparing the recently stolen Renoir case to that of socialite Joanne King Herring, who lost Sir Henry Raeburn’s…

The Fort Worth Modern is laying out the welcome mat for graduate students in art and art history, offering free admission and backstage access to visiting artists and lecturers in…