"Karen Finley"

The evening was a master class of egomaniacal, whirling selfishness, and appalling disregard for the audience’s time and patience.

A performance by Karen Finley. In the piece, Finley plays the role of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to examine our culture’s fascination with images of trauma. For more info and tickets, go…

Karen Finley doubles down on her title as “First Lady of performance art” in her piece The Jackie Look, which she’s bringing to Dallas’ Kessler Theater this April. The work, performed most recently at The Broad…

Houston’s DiverseWorks was founded in 1982 by a group of artists who really wanted to make some noise—artistically, socially, and politically. Beginning at the peak of the Reagan era and…

Artist Karen Finley will give a dramatic reading of four selected excerpts from We Keep Our Victims Ready, first performed at DiverseWorks over two evenings in October 1989. About the…

Jessica Fuentes writes about recent cuts to arts funding across Texas and reflects on the impact on artists, art institutions, and communities.

The Guerrilla Girls' ongoing struggle, fought with words and images, has served to raise issues of diversity and inclusion and to inspire artists and activists around the globe, both within and beyond the world of art.

Other artists included Zoë Buckman, Staceyann Chin, Karen Finley, Ebony Noelle Golden, Andrea Jenkins, Meshell Ndegeocello, Toshi Reagon, Martha Redbone, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis and more.

A century after Duchamp, I think the art world has lost its sense of what art is, and more importantly, what art can and cannot do.

Guest star Ryan Dennis joins Rainey Knudson to count down forbidden words, leather knowledge, and public art.

Lately it seems the charges of offensiveness are flying around faster than a frail 80-year-old burning at the stake in colonial Massachusetts.

Of course there were exhibitions, lectures, and events on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, but yesterday marked the 52nd anniversary and the fascination still continues. Newspapers…

The issues of the eighties and nineties, the period in which DiverseWorks was most socially and politically vocal, are still being discussed on the local and national stage. The Eleventh…

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“In a world where proving yourself is everything”… I present Similar but Different #27: Glitter! Mariah Carey Oliver Herring “After its scheduled run, Meulensteen (formerly Max Protetch) took down their…

Alex Gray, formerly with ArtPace and Artadia, has curated the opening show at Ballroom Marfa. OPTIMO: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art, will open the weekend of April 23-24 in…

Once upon a time, Dynamic Coloring Duo Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman struggled against Action Painting Heroes Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning for control of the Art Universe.

Houston Center for Photography (HCP) is pleased to announce the opening of Cowboys Don’t Shoot Straight (Like They Used To). The exhibition will be on view from March 12 to…

The space hopes to grow the art collector base in Texas.