The gang at Austin’s Okay Mountain recently emailed us about their fun new blog, which reminded us to freshen up our links page. We’ve added [...]

A memorial service for Houston artist Virgil Grotfeldt, who died Monday from complications from cancer, will be held this Monday, March 2, at 10 am [...]

Houston artist Virgil Grotfeldt died today after a long battle with cancer. Grotfeldt was one of Houston’s leading artists, and his final body of work [...]

There seem to be a bunch of shows all of a sudden dealing with contemporary glass in Houston. "Studio glass" (as opposed to factory glass) [...]

This week a bunch of Texas art people descended on Austin to exhort our Legislature to cough up some money for the arts in Texas. [...]

The latest issue of Austin art newsletter …might be good is titled Take that, Cathy Horyn, a reference to the NYT writer who profiled the [...]

Modern Art Notes reports that it’s not too late to stop the Coburn Amendment, which would deny stimulus spending to "…any museum, theater, [or] arts [...]

Random thoughts from the Dallas Art Fair:  1. A lot of TX dealers got through the 80′s, when things were terrible here and booming everywhere [...]

The quickie spiel about the Dallas Art Fair, which previewed yesterday: low expectations on the parts of the dealers — perhaps higher expectations from the [...]

On the heels of bad news about NYC galleries closing comes… the Dallas Art Fair!!! The grand opening is tonight, and all eyes are trained [...]

Gerald Peters Gallery, which once anchored the heart of the gallery area in Dallas at the corner of Fairmount Street, is closing permanently. The gallery [...]

So instead of griping about a show that closed over a month ago in New York, what’s say we look closer to home at stuff [...]

  Following up on my Morandi post: I’ve gotten a lot of flack for criticizing that show. My problem (right or wrong) is not so [...]

Eric McCauley Lee, director of the Taft Museum in Cincinnati, will take over the helm at the Kimbell starting in March. The job has been [...]

If you’ve had enough of this whole holiday/New Year’s thing, Texas museums have stuff to do this weekend: there are public tours at the Blanton [...]

WORST: While it was encouraging to see the MFAH give a big, 30-year retrospective to a sort-of Texan, it would have been nice if it [...]

BEST: The McNay‘s new Jane and Arthur Stieren Center is an ambitious and successful addition to that museum. Designed by Jean-Paul Viguier, it doesn’t exactly [...]

BEST: I’d complained for years about how young Houston artists were careerist losers unwilling to do anything beyond look for gallery representation for their derivative, [...]

This week we’ll be highlighting the Best and Worst of 2008 in the newswire, and want to tantalize you all with the promise of our [...]

"… bodies are not really what [Francis] Bacon is interested in. … He’s enjoying himself, and he’s doing something really abstract." – Matthew Collings in [...]