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Rice University Extends Free Tuition to Families Earning Up to $200K
The announcement comes less than a year after the Houston university opened a new $76M home for its art department.
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Artists Memorialize Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Houston Man Killed by ICE
Portraits, illustrations, cartoons, and signs pay tribute to the Mexican immigrant and father of three who was fatally shot in his car on his way to work.
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Painting “Intentionally” Defaced at Museum of African American Culture
The Houston institution said Clarence Heyward's self-portrait "Man in the Garden" (2025) was deliberately vandalized by visitors.
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40 Years Later, Houston's FotoFest Keeps Its Edge
The photography festival’s anniversary retrospective embodies the spirit of freedom and internationalism present since its founding.
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Is There an Ethical Path for AI Art?
There is a destabilizing, dreamlike sense of awe in encountering something without knowing the answer to sanity’s most fundamental question: “Is this real?”
Art Review
The Canonization of Frida Kahlo
An exhibition blasts apart any crystallized conception of the artist until no easily digestible singular figure emerges.
Art Review
Sonya Clark’s Communal Tapestry
A mid-career survey at two Houston institutions redirects discourse from her hair works toward her fiber and collaborative works.
Art Review
Jillian Conrad Redefines the Limits of Drawing
Her sculptural “drawings" mark the distance between what we see and how we name it, drawing connections across time and space.
Art Review
Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction
A fundamental part of Overstreet's mission was to break free of the flat, rectangular picture plane and the Eurocentric view of painting that dominated American art.
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At Project Row Houses, Art and Basic Needs Go Hand in Hand
Based in Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood, the organization makes art that can seem luxurious meet real, lived necessities.
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Do Ho Suh Picks Up the Pieces
The artist’s imaginative, iterative artworks emphasize the loss that accompanies perpetual displacement — even the kind created by art world success.
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Rothko Chapel Paintings Damaged by Hurricane Beryl
The Houston space will remain closed indefinitely until conservation needs are addressed.