Art League Houston

This week, Christina Rees and Brandon Zech tackle mammalian hands, shiny crosses, and an original Texas Modernist.   1. Texas Moderns: BROR UTTER Old Jail Art Center (Albany) September 19 – February…

Lavar Muroe transitions so seamlessly between the cute and the grotesque that we simply cannot stop staring, and we might become disgusted at our very desire to stare.

Our special guest star this week is Jennie Ash, Visual Arts Director at Art League Houston!! Like everything else, the Top Five is always better in a British accent. Jennie joined Rainey Knudson on a wet day at Project Row Houses to count down this week's list!

Another town hall meeting will be held to discuss the state of the arts on Saturday, May 2, at 11:30am at Houston’s El Dorado Ballroom. The City of Houston has…

The Art League Houston has announced it’s honorees for its 2015 artist, patron and lifetime achievement awards. Amy Blakemore is ALH’s artist of the year. Blakemore’s subtly curious snapshots, taken…

The Mark Flood School of Painting seems to provoke a lot of conversation. The comment section following Bill Davenport’s article “OK Art at the Party-Tyme Corral” (about another artist’s paintings)…

Art League Houston and W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) have announced that The Art League is now one of a handful of “WAGE Certified” nonprofits for 2015. This…

In spite of Houston’s miserable weather on Sunday evening, lots of folks came out to find out the results of two local micro grants at galleryHOMELAND. The entrants for the…

Among the many listings in the recent post “The Almost-Complete List of Texas Holiday Arts and Crafts Fairs,” is the upcoming Holiday Mini Mart & Party at the Art League…

In conjunction with The Black Guys: Robert Hodge and Phillip Pyle the Second, currently on view at Art League Houston (ALH) through January 3, Hodge and Pyle staged an interpretive…

In the midst of all the HAA public art controversy, the Houston arts community may not have noticed a more private art addition to the city. Art League Houston (ALH)…

Rainey and Bill offer a nuanced dialectic, and some plain 'ol picks.

The Art League Houston (ALH) has been doing a good job of promoting its upcoming two-day seminar “charge: practicum” to take place on November 8 and 9. In fact, it…

It’s probably a sign of its funky aesthetic that the folks at Houston’s new Smither Park will put on a party at the drop of a hat (“We thought of…

The Art League Houston (ALH) reviews submissions to its open call for exhibition proposals but twice a year and the deadline for the next batch is midnight tomorrow night. If…

Houstonians are eagerly awaiting the late October presentation of Selven O’Keef Jarmon’s piece 360 Degrees Vanishing, commissioned by Art League Houston (ALH). It’s set to be as big of a…

Robert Hodge and Phillip Pyle II have already begun promoting their upcoming exhibition at Art League Houston, presenting…The Black Guys, which doesn’t open until mid-November. While they promise a full-length…

As the second of its public “art on the esplanade” pieces, the Art League Houston has commissioned Houston artist Selven O’Keef Jarmon’s piece 360 Degrees Vanishing, a set of curtainlike…

Art League Houston has announced that the City of Houston has authorized an ordinance that will allow Patrick Renner‘s Funnel Tunnel to remain on the median of Montrose Blvd. through…

Abel Azcona's Utero was far and away the most powerful piece I saw, but parts of it should not have happened.