Aurora Awards Joan Jonas its 2011 Award at Upcoming Gala Awards Dinner
Houston Microcinema Aurora Picture Show has named the pioneer video and performance artist Joan Jonas as its 2011 Aurora Award winner. The award will be [...]
Staying in the Game: UNT Granted $40,000 for Professional Practices Seminar
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation recently awarded The University of North Texas Department of Art and Art History a $40,000 grant to fund the [...]
Au Naturale: New Texas Talent 2011
This year, New Texas Talent at Craighead-Green Gallery, juried by Marcie Inman, Director of Exhibitions for the Irving Arts Center, has the odor of a world [...]
Austin Art Implosion Continues: Arthouse Director Sue Graze Resigns as Executive Director to Assume Advisory Role
Sue Graze, director of Arthouse since 1999 has resigned as Executive Director to become Director Emeritus. Graze has has shepherded the org through a name [...]
Walking Tour: Art Guys Babble on Greens Bayou Street for Carrie Schneider’s Hear Our Houston
The Art Guys, in association with Hear Our Houston, a project by artist Carrie Schneider that asks people to “Ttake a walk: record your [...]
Taking it to the Streets: Flash Art Top 100 Poll Lets Public Choose Best Artists- Sort Of
Flash art is polling its readers (and everyone else) to find out who to put on their annaul top 100 artists list. In the past [...]
Gender Bending’s Nothing New
If you missed Lady Gaga’s male drag performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last night then you also missed the shock on the faces [...]
Pervy Nude Statue! Wholesome Teen Stars! Creepy Dallas Sex Shop!
ACT I – SCANDAL! Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are now immortalized in a nude sculpture to be [...]
Diane Barber to Leave Houston’s Diverseworks; William Betts to act as Interim Executive Director, Again!
After 14 years at Houston’s Diverseworks Art Space, Diane Barber will be stepping down from her post as co-artistic director to pursue other projects after [...]
Sacred Sculptor Carves out a Niche in San Antonio Cathedrals
San Antonio Express-News reporter Abe Levy chronicles the works of modern day sacred artist Agustin Parra, whose works are a focus of devotion in San [...]
Land as Lab: LHI’s 2011 Sci-Art Symposium Collects Concerned Artists Outside San Antonio
On the 1200-acre Watson ranch on the Medina River outside San Antonio, the Land Heritage Institute’s longhorns graze near a retrofitted dairy barn and a [...]
Double Dog Art Dare from the Sketchy Neighbors
Houston art collective Sketchy Neighbors wants your ideas! They’re inviting online suggestions for unorthodox materials and creative concepts between now and September 25, when they [...]
Austin City Building Officials Ease Artist Studio Code Crackdown with- A Seminar!
Hundreds of Austin artists who rely on occasional public events like the East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T.) are facing a dire challenge: due to new [...]
The Ten List: How to piss off an arts writer
September 10 will mark the one year anniversary of Douglas Britt’s notorious and fantastic e-mail (which made Gawker!) “Houston Chronicle art coverage in the post-Preview [...]
Austin Art in Public Places: Obelisco Dedication Saturday
On Saturday, August 27th, Austin Art in Public Places celebrates the dedication of the way-finding “Obeliscos” at intersections along 7th St. commissioned as part of [...]
Dear Friends and Colleagues, It’s my pleasure to give you a brief update regarding the Texas Contemporary Art Fair in Houston, Texas this coming October. . .
The show has taken shape with a wonderful group of dealers and excellent contemporary programs; Coming from NYC will be Lennon Weinberg, P.P.O.W., DCKT, Susan [...]
Houston architecture is going to the dogs: third Barkitecture event coming in October
Barkitecture Houston 2011 will be held on Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15 at Houston Pavilions. You got it: designers, architects, artists who feel [...]
Canterbury New American Art Curator at DMA, GT Promises Heat will Abate After Halloween
Patricia Sue Canterbury has been hired as associate curator of American art at the DMA, effective September 19. Since 1998, Canterbury has been associate curator [...]
Melissa Miller at the Grace Museum
No need to panic when you turn the corner of the second floor gallery at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and discover Melissa [...]
Mexic-Arte miracle-gro remix: New Manging Director post filled by Rodriguez
Frank M. Rodriguez, Director of Finance for the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, has been named as the org’s first Managing Director, in charge of operations, [...]
