Houston artist Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses (PRH), has been named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. The program awards unrestricted $625,000 fellowships “to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary…
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After battling brain cancer for over two years, Houston artist Wendy Wagner died this past weekend. She was 47 years old and is survived by her husband Kenneth Finch. Wendy…
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Houston’s Project Row Houses (PRH) announced that it has launched a search for a new executive director. The current executive director, Linda Shearer, has decided to step down at the…
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The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is celebrating its centennial and UTEP’s Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts is turning ten, so the Ruben is…
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There has been increasing criticism of unpaid internships (read “Reliance on unpaid volunteers is turning public museums into a middle class commodity” or “British Museum Wants Someone to Update Its…
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After a whole two and a half months of making what NYMag.com calls “neon stoner-meets-summer-camper collages and jewelry,” Miley Cyrus will be exhibiting her work in an exhibition called Dirty…
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After 65 years of Houston’s traditional Foley’s (later Macy’s) Thanksgiving Day Parade, organizers abruptly called it quits last year, but the Mayor’s Office of Special Events quickly found a new…
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Today marks the beginning of this year’s Texas Contemporary art fair at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center. For the fancy folks who shell out $100 for a preview pass,…
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There’s still time to catch “Art in the Garden” at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, the annual collaboration with Blue Star Contemporary, since it’s on view through the end of…
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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…
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On Wednesday at 3pm, Dr. Mark Thistlethwaite, the Kay and Velma Kimbell Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University, will present a lecture entitled “Water Matters in American Art”…
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Houston residents Charles and Judy Tate have donated their private collection of 120 modern and contemporary Latin American artworks, valued at nearly $10 million, to the Blanton Museum of Art…
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The folks at Houston’s galleryHOMELAND are gearing up for the opening(s) of their revamped space in the East End (2327 Commerce Street). They’ve brought in a new board and expanded…
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Who knew that Garland, Texas has “the world’s first citywide photoblog”? That’s what they claim on Garlandeyes.com. To post on the site, the images must be of Garland, by someone…
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Houston isn’t just a big maze of cars and its art scene isn’t restricted to the Museum District, according to the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA). HAA has teamed up with…
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The latest act of art vandalism occurred yesterday afternoon at the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A man splashed a red substance on a blank…
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Johnathan Estes, founder of Southern Artists Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to help autistic children, which runs Kingspoint Proper, a concert venue and art gallery, was killed on Monday…
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Three times a year, San Antonio’s Artpace invites a guest curator to choose three artists to live and create art in San Antonio for two months. Each residency cycle includes…
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Houston’s Lawndale Art Center is turning over all of its galleries, as well as its outdoor garden space, to its upcoming exhibition Texas Sculpture Group 2014: A Panoramic View, curated…
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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…