In its continuing drive for cross-disciplinariness, the university of Houston has announced a new "creative work" minor that combines fine arts with cultural studies such as history or philosophy. John…
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Vince Hannemann’s Cathedral of Junk in South Austin is closing, a victim of newly-enforced city codes. According to Hannemann, the effort to refashion the popular 60-ton trash heap into a…
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AirStation, a multi-part temporary installation in the old gas station across from the Station Museum in Houston, dramatizes environmental degradation by creating a vision of a self-contained, one room biospere;…
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The Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas Wesleyan is hosting its second annual art law colloquium from 10am-3:30pm on June 19 at the law school in downtown Fort…
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"Tommy," a bronze boy seated on a bronze bench, reading, was stolen last Thursday night from it’s popular location outside the Allen Public Library. The statue, which cost friends of…
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Go ahead, kick the man when he’s down: Thomas Kinkade, "the painter of light" whose empire of schlock has been kicking us in the eye for years, was arrested for…
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It worked: in the Frisco, TX City Council run-off race, John Keating beat incumbent Jim Joyner. Keating supported a Tea Party petition to reconsider funding for the Collin County Arts…
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The Guggenheim museum is sponsoring a fishing expedition on YouTube- broadcasting an open call for complete video works ten minutes or less from everyone everywhere. Starting yesterday, YouTube Play, the…
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Conny Martin, pioneer artist of Lubbock died on June 6 at age 84. Born in Lubbock in 1925, Martin began painting on shirt cardboards after In 1951 she was a…
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Steven Evans, formerly managing director of Dia: Beacon in upstate New York is the new executive director of the Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio. Evans, in charge if Dia’s…
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Staten Island artist Scott LoBaido will begin painting the world’s largest American flag on the 3.5 acre roof of the Lamons Gasket company’s manufacturing facility at 7300 Airport Blvd., Houston…
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Saturday, June 26 at 4pm is the deadline for the Art League Houston’s open call for exhibtion proposals for its 2011-2012 season. Artists and curators and curator-artists of all stripes…
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The Texas Art Asylum, at 1230 Houston Ave., Houston is now open. Self-descibed as a "part craft store, part thrift store, part salvage yard, part antique store" the new shop…
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Conceptual painter Sigmar Polke died Thursday in Cologne, Germany, of complications from cancer. He was 69. According to the NY Times Roberta Smith, Polke’s "main achievement was to be an…
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Houston Center for Photography has added three new staff members: Ms. Juliana Forero is HCP’s new Assistant Director for Education, Mr. Zach Gresham is Workshop Coordinator, and Ms. Alex Moore…
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"Celia Alvarez Munoz" by Roberto Tejada, published by the UCLA/Univ. of Minnesota Press, has won second place at the 12th International Latino Book Awards in the Non-Fiction Arts Catagory. Ms.Munoz…
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Be on the lookout for a 1500-pound iron samurai warrior sculpture, reportedly stolen from Heirloom Gardens in College Station in March. College Station investigators believe the sculpture may have been…
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Dallas Artist Chapman Kelley, who asked the Dallas Museum of Art to sell his work back to him because he didn’t like the way it was displayed, sued the Chicago…
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According to the NY times, a 14-page legal notice leaked from the public prosecutor’s office in Rome names The San Antonio Museum of Art and the Dallas Museum of Art…
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Core Fellow Leslie Hewitt is one of four finalists for the $50,000 Grange Prize. Co-administered by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musuem of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, The prize…