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“If it had fallen out into a little pile of shards on the floor and then self-combusted, then I would have been interested.”

This Saturday the Amarillo Museum of Art hosts artist Chip Lord, who will give a talk on the history of Ant Farm and The Cadillac Ranch, and will present a screening of his new film, 'Greetings from Amarillo.'

The Theorist Festival features 44 artists from across the U.S., Mexico, and the Middle East.

Neil Fauerso, Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on a museum that fits in your wallet, a long-awaited retrospective, and a drawing show in San Antonio featuring two artists who play along gender lines.

Nominees must be native Texans or five-year residents of the state who have received recognition in their discipline. They must also have received critical reviews in state, regional or national publications.

"I can get people to experience something or an idea that I’ve been exploring myself, and that seems really worthwhile to me."

This year, Chalk it Up's featured artists are the Borderland Collective, who will create work related to their Artpace exhibition, One to Another, which explores the global migration crisis.

"Museums and galleries all over town are showing not just art that has been bought-&-brought to Houston (fabulous as that undoubtedly often is), but art MADE in Houston, by Houston artists, going back to the 1850s and coming up to the day just before Contemporary."

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston recently announced three significant acquisitions of Medieval art, now on view in the  European Art Galleries of the Museum’s Audrey Jones Beck Building.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a faculty show that has our attention, the evolution of Chinati Weekend, and the return of the Texas Contemporary Art Fair.

"Sotheby's saw record participation from bidders and buyers across Texas in 2017, and we see tremendous potential for expanding our relationships throughout the region even further.”

"That physical act of actually inserting myself into a piece of work, into the history of art, is really powerful for me.”

“I hope to build upon the VAC’s legacy as a space for artistic experimentation, innovative programming, and a site for insightful and stimulating conversations about contemporary art to transpire."

Suh has shown all over the world and several times in Texas, and is particularly known for his large-scale, immersive fabric recreations of interior architectural spaces.

"It was at that point that the board began to confuse Jim Harithas with Charles Manson."

In addition to its interdisciplinary focus, the Athenaeum Review will seek to provide serious and in-depth arts coverage in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

This isn't the first award the museum received for its landmark Dorothy Hood show: its interactive installations were also granted the 2018 Bronze MUSE Award from the American Alliance of Museums.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on an annual Big Show that’s now a lending library, an exhibition that will make you rethink the Alamo, and the opening of the newly reimagined Crow Collection (now Crow Museum) in Dallas.

At the Briscoe Western Art Museum this morning, councilman Roberto Treviño read a city proclamation announcing that the second annual Museum Month San Antonio will happen in October 2018.

“My aunt really wanted me to pursue medicine because that was a way that you could really help people. And I kept telling her: The arts can do that, too.”