This week: a group show featuring early 20th-century artists in Wichita Falls, a solo show that transforms the urban city into a lush jungle in Houston, a solo exhibition exploring our relationship with nature in Austin, and more.

Eoles “Deuce” Whitaker II, the man believed to have intentionally started the Winter Street Studio fire, died of suicide by jumping out of his high-rise downtown Houston apartment as police attempted to arrest him.

Bucky Miller reviews four photography books published in 2021 and 2022, including a tome on Diane Arbus, a curious book by Michael Yuan, and others.

January 1, 2023 marked the annual Public Domain Day, the day in which certain copyrights expire, bringing new works of literature, music, cinema, and visual art into the public domain.

UTSA Professor Teresa Eckmann and her students talk with Victoria Lyall, Terezita Romo, and Lucía Abramovich Sánchez, the curators behind a traveling exhibition that aims to pull back the curtain on La Malinche.

Megan Wilson Krznarich on the veiled social critique in the work of artist Bernardo Vallarino.

Today: Reading letters

Jessica Fuentes shares New Year's resolutions inspired by art, including works that have been on view in Dallas, Albany, Lubbock, and beyond.

Jessica Fuentes and William Sarradet discuss how looking at art and being in art spaces impacts our mental health. 

This New Year’s Eve marks the 47th anniversary of a participatory performance piece by Fluxus artist Ken Friedman.

Benjamin Ogrodnik traces the decidedly queer sensibilities in the exhibition "Warhol, Johns, Stella: Revisited" at the Art Museum of South Texas.

Houston-area museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Menil Collection, the Blaffer Museum, and the Galveston Arts Center, have announced their upcoming spring exhibitions.

This year, we covered art and other happenings across our great state of Texas and beyond.

Glasstire looks back at important figures from the art world who died in 2022, including Nancy Brown Negley, Francis Colpitt, and Pedro Rodriguez.

This week: a touring exhibition exploring an artist’s creative process comes to Houston, a pairing of paintings by artists working three centuries apart in Dallas, a pairing of works by Modern European and American artists with medieval objects in Austin, and more.

The Judd Foundation recently announced that its website has been updated with expanded resources chronologizing the life of Donald Judd.

Bucky Miller reviews Michael Lundgren’s photobook "Geomancy," published in 2019 by Stanley/Barker Books.

Barbara Purcell on the community-centered practice of artist Margarita Cabrera, whose work is currently on view in a solo show at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.

Jessica Fuentes, William Sarradet, and Brandon Zech count down some of their favorite art books of the year. 

Today: Large black assemblages