Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
Studio 101 Gallery and Gatherings is a significant new addition to Fort Worth’s River District. It will mean a lot of thing to a lot of locals. The luxury event venue, which first opened in early August at Nursery Lane (Suite 108), will feature quarter…
Read MoreIn this ongoing series, PaperCity asks artists and curators to pull back the curtain on the making of an art show. This time, co-curator/artist Jonathan Paul Jackson weighs in on the exhibition “Texas Emerging: Volume I” at Houston’s …
Read MoreIn a time of coronavirus pandemic fueled uncertainty and a fraught election cycle — a particularly precarious moment for the visual arts — a noted Houston gallery’s high-profile expansion proves the Texas art world will go on. Cue Laura Rathe Fin…
Read MoreThis is the first story in a new PaperCity series which spotlights artists sharing insights into the making of their exhibitions, Houston talent Mary Margaret Hansen pulls back the curtain on her current show, “Atablo’ ” at Houston…
Read MoreWhen the spring Bayou City Art Festival, traditionally held in Memorial Park, was cancelled due to COVID-19 only weeks before its March 29 scheduled opening, (its sponsor) the Art Colony Association (ACA) began planning for the fall festival which typi…
Read MoreWhen Dallas Art Fair director Kelly Cornell emailed late this week with big news, it was an announcement we’d sensed was coming, a decision that could only be summed up as sage. As Texas continues to lead the nightly news and serve as a coronavi…
Read MoreGeorge Floyd was one of the countless Black Americans who have lost their lives due to racial discrimination and police brutality. But the senseless murder of the Houston Third Ward native, former high school athlete and member of DJ Screw’s Scre…
Read MoreThis is one artist-meets-collector story that boasts a very sweet ending. Bryn Larsen, Houston arts advocate, and co-founder of Foto Relevance, recently commissioned Houston-based artist Diane Gelman to transform her butler’s pantry into Patisserie Lar…
Read MoreDateline Dallas. The art market is about to get far more interesting — with a proven Texas entity boldly entering the lucrative world of art commerce. The revelation came in with an email touting a venture launched by one of the most respected, and suc…
Read More“I’ve been feeling the need to go home for some time.” Those words accompany the suite of paintings that make up a small exhibition of Angel Otero’s work that debuted along with The Conservatory on Two (Brian Bolke’s new retail outpost located ab…
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