FotoFest

FotoFest’s choice to show Leo Ramadinha’s voyeuristic imagery of young people participating in COVID-safe online Zoom raves is surprisingly transgressive.

This week: nature-inspired works in San Antonio and Texas City, an exploration of Black masculinity in Dallas, photographs of pandemic parties in Houston, and more.

FotoFest has announced a virtual memorial service honoring the life of the organization's co-founder, Frederick Baldwin, who died last month.

FotoFest has extended the deadline for artists, organizers, institutions, art spaces, and other venues to register to participate in the Participating Spaces program. The new deadline is March 18, 2022.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded a total of $4.1 million to 49 museums and arts organizations through its Fall 2021 grants. Houston nonprofits DiverseWorks, FotoFest, and The Menil Collection are among the recipients.  

Frederick C. Baldwin, Houston-based photojournalist, educator, and co-founder of FotoFest, died Wednesday, December 15, 2021 at the age of 92.

The 2022 FotoFest will have three co-curators, and its renowned portfolio review program will be back in full swing.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a walking tour show in Houston, the daily lives of our furry companions, and the second parking garage art show we know of in Texas during the pandemic. 

The online initiative will give each of five recipients portfolio review slots with curators, gallerists, photo editors, book publishers and collectors.

Christopher Blay and Brandon Zech let you in on some choice online artist conversations taking place across the state this week, with some favorite Texans in the mix.

Over the past 24 hours, other museums across the country have issued similar statements.

After 33 years it is one of the largest and most productive portfolio reviews of its kind. The theme of this upcoming Fotofest is 'AFRICAN COSMOLOGIES—Photography, Time, and the Other.'

The Houston art organization FotoFest International announced this week two new hires: Max Fields as Associate Curator and Director of Publications, and April M. Frazier as Director of Advancement for the Literacy Through Photography Learning Program.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a one-stop survey of Houston photographers, a Dallas painting show with no paintings, and an Austin show called 'Oozy Rat in a Sanitary Zoo.'

Although Annie Leibovitz might be best known for her photos of celebrities of musicians that appeared on albums and in magazines, she has also created advertising campaigns, captured images of Ground Zero in September of 2001, and documented her relationship with and the subsequent death of Susan Sontag.

Pictures from the opening night of "Seeing Harvey: Personal Stories, Public Responses" & "Gideon Mendel: Deluge" at FotoFest in Houston.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a hallway gallery in the Panhandle, a Harvey anniversary show in Houston, and the working materials of Ed Ruscha at the Harry Ransom Center.

The Houston-based arts organization FotoFest announced this week that it is now accepting submissions for the upcoming exhibition, Seeing Harvey: Personal Stories, Public Responses, set to run from September 6 through November…

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on debate night in San Antonio, the joy of watching people eat, and a Texan artist's tropes about Texas.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on the best fishing in Texas, an artworld version of a Lincoln-Douglas style debate in San Antonio, and the psychology of long-term art collecting.