Zine Fest Houston foments independence on Saturday, May 21 at Khon’s Rooftop, 2808 Milam St, Houston from 4-10pm. Alternative music, alternative lifestyles, alternative thinking, and alternative press consolidate into what…

The University of Houston’s Mitchell Center must have sailors on its board-first Shrimp Boat Projects, now Tex Hex Cinema, a self-contained movie theater  on board an artist-made pontoon boat in…

The Hamptons Expo Group announced a partial list of galleries participating in September’s Houston Fine Art Fair at a posh reception at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Monday…

Over 34 days, Houston artist Skeez181 gathered 76 graffiti writers to transform the 13,000sf SDC warehouse into Houston’s largest-ever graffiti mecca. Artists from as far as Munich, Germany and an…

Lame-duck art mag Artlies will launch it’s final issue, #68, themed “Architecture is not Art” edited by Mary Ellen Carroll, on Friday, May 20 from 6-8pm at Domy Books on…

From 6-8pm network, schmooze, wheedle, score face time, confab, kiss ass, or break balls at Diverseworks’ art-world Industry Night. Fun! fun! fun!  and Free! Don’t forget your promotional materials, hearty…

The Dallas Museum of Art has won an Association of Art Museum Curators Award for Excellence in the category of “Outstanding Small Exhibition” for The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from…

Steffani Jemison, artist in residence at the MFAH’s CORE program is the winner of this year’s $10,000 Meredith J. Long Core Program Award, given annually to a second-year Core artist-in-residence.…

To address the conditions of curating contemporary art, one must address the temporality it inhabits. This was one of many currents in a recent lecture at The Glassell School of…

Creative Capital’s MAP fund grants for 2011 include two Texas orgs: Houston’s Catastrophic Theatre gets money for The Hand Tales, a play that centers on a man mid-way through life’s…

Portable on Demand Art (PODA) pods by local artists and collectives Aerosol Warfare, BOX 13 ArtSpace, Jillian Conrad, Lynne McCabe, Gabriel Martinez, Metalab, Anthony Thompson Shumate and The Joanna will…

100+ art museums will take part in this year’s Art Museum Day on May 18, and some of them are in Texas: The Amon Carter , El Paso Museum of…

The newly refurbished and expanded Inman Gallery in Houston opens its first exhibitions on Friday, May 20 with work by Shaun O’Dell. Simultaneously opening at the Inman Annex just down…

From May 13-September 30, it’s PRINTHOUSTON, four months of events, talks, and exhibitions organized by PrintMatters, an org which, despite its name, does not mat prints, but instead promotes contemporary…

Applications for performers who want slots at next August’s Houston Fringe Festival  have until Sunday (tomorrow!) at 5pm to pay their $25 fee and send in their materials. If accepted,…