Lucia Simek

This has been the year of public art in Dallas, what with the massive Nasher XChange program that sited ten commissioned art works all over Dallas, the big to-do over…

The Contemporary Austin announced this week the appointment of a new Manager of Marketing and Public Relations, Nicole Chism Griffin. Griffin will be responsible for helping push the new identity…

Artist Zoe Leonard has won the Bucksbaum Award, a $100,000 prize granted to one of the participants in the Whitney Biennial for the last eight iterations of the show. In…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that it will release 400,000 digital images online, free to access for non-commercial use, without permission from the museum and without a fee.…

Goss-Michael Foundation’s Associate Director, Ariel Saldivar, has been named as one of the juror’s for the 2014 ArtPrize! Saldivar has been a key figure in making Dallas’ internationally-recognized GMF a more…

As we reported a couple weeks ago, Houston artist Mark Flood has founded an art fair, the Insider Art Fair, which is part real-life critique of the art fair model…

Former MFHA Core Fellow, founder of Houston’s Aurora Picture Show, and sometimes Glasstire writer, curator Andrea Grover, has been awarded the prestigious Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award for her upcoming show Radical…

Dallas Morning News architecture critic, Mark Lamster, has been doing some serious finger-wagging lately. First, there was his scolding of Dallas architects from major firms who were largely a no-show…

When you live in a big city it seems like more planes, with their blinking red lights, cross the sky at night than stars. City lights drown out space lights,…

This month’s Family Day at the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston is inspired by one of the most child-like artists working today, Trenton Doyle Hancock. I mean, the guy carries…

The San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio has commissioned French artist Xavier de Richemont to make a video art piece that tells the history of the community from pre-indigenous times…

The City of Austin announced today that it will open its first artist-led community garden, the North Austin Community Garden, this weekend as part of its Art in Public Places (AIPP)…

For 38 years, Gary Myrick has worked as a courtroom sketch-artist in Texas courts. He was the go-to guy for rendering the faces of defendents, judges and witnesses all over…

This weekend, North Texans will finally be able to see the work of art that as been described as “exceptional,” of “superior quality,”  “in near-perfect condition,” “impressively large,” and, most…

In an effort to memorialize the fading history of some of Dallas’ most blighted and significant neighborhoods, the Boone Family Foundation and the Rainwater Charitable Foundation are teaming up to…

Part two of Crossing the Line, an exchange project between Three Walls (San Antonio) and Centro Cultural Border (Mexico City) is slated to open in Mexico City this week on…

A bevy of Texas mothers is really proud this Mother’s Day: their kids are winners of the Texas State-Fish Art Contest, a project by Wildlife Forever which promotes wildlife conservation…

A senior at Round Rock High School, near Austin, a one Andrew Muennink, didn’t think he could handle taking his art history final because it “is supposed to be so…

A Russian artist, Irina Bogatcheva, a.k.a. Anastasia the Great, is being held in custody in Houston for failing to show up for a hearing regarding the bankruptcy case of former Houston…

The power pair that is Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Dallas Museum of Art Director Max Anderson are gearing up to host the New Cities Foundation Summit and launch the…