"Mel Chin"

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech are in Houston, counting down the top five art events opening this weekend in what we call “The Harvey Zone.”

An exhibition featuring multimedia works by artists who contributed to Houston’s art scene in the 70’s and 80’s. Artists include: John Alexander, Lee Benner, H.J. Bott, Mel Chin, Ibsen Espada, David P.…

This week the media is brimming with ideas for getting rid of suddenly-generally-unwanted statues to the Confederacy. It’s easy to imagine that 50 years from now, it will seem crazy that we had…

Last week 34-year-old artist Corrina Mehiel was murdered in Washington D.C. The art teacher and project assistant to Mel Chin was found in a basement apartment the afternoon of March 21. She had been…

Artist Corrina Mehiel, age 34, was found murdered in Washington, D.C. Her body was found in a basement apartment the afternoon of March 21, reports artnet News. She had been…

Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on competing art fairs, a woefully overlooked artist, and an Artists Anonymous (AA) meeting this weekend.   1. Dorothy Hood: The Color of Being / El…

A show of works by 2016 ALH Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts winner Jesse Lott. The show will consist “of over thirty works in sculpture, drawing and collage, which focuses…

Last week, the University of Houston’s Art Department opened their annual show of works by first and second-year graduate students as well as UH undergrads. Prior to the exhibition’s opening, MFA student Alton DuLaney met…

It’s reasonable to ask if ILYB wasn’t just a bunch of fun-loving party animals jamming together.

If you give yourself less than ten minutes to compile a mental list of international and regional artists who’ve dealt with guns in their work, you rack up an impressive number really quickly.

Naturally, during art fairs, gallerists are constantly promoting their booths and their artists. Glasstire received several emails from New Orleans’ Jonathan Ferrara Gallery about its invitation-only exhibition during the current…

In my defense, most overtly political art stinks.

The Guggenheim Fellowships were announced this week and the list includes Houston’s Mel Chin (in the Fine Arts category) and Austin’s PJ Raval (in Film-Video). In its 91st competition for…

Bill and Rainey wag the Chin in Houston, while Christina Rees reports on sheep butchering videos in Dallas and the mysterious, big-budget Gréaud spectacle.

In conjunction with Mel Chin: Rematch, this group show pays homage to the activist work of the native Houston artist with works by Wayne Gilbert, Mike Hollis, Mary Jenewein (whose…

No one can resist putting out the obligatory year-end listicle, so yesterday Artnet News published “The 50 Most Exciting Artists of 2014.” Art critic/curator Christian Viveros-Fauné states that his selection…

Intensity is not a perfume!

The biggest art competition in the world has opened its registration for applicants–ArtPrize is back for its sixth year! Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the annual competition brings art, good…

Native Houstonian Mel Chin’s 40-year retrospective of sculpture, video and installations at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) opened on Thursday with a panel discussion and on Friday with…

Thanks to the keen eyes of some TV crime drama watchers at GalleristNY, someone noticed that the paintings in last night’s episode of the CBS show Elementary were those of…