Lucia Simek

The yearly Artforum society column relaying the DAF goings-on makes for some of the year’s best navel gazing.

One of the major difficulties facing a Texas artist is getting your work out of Texas and into wider art world networks. Residencies are available all over the globe, true,…

Yesterday, Randy Tibbits of the Houston Press took the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Menil to task for failing to show Houston artists. Museum visitors to our city (and…

The artist behind the recent Prada Marfa vandalization, Joe Magnano, also known as 9271977, is scheduled to stand trial for his West Texas art antics next Friday, May 2, at…

In commemoration of the one year anniversary of the collapse of an eight story garment factory in Bangladesh, which killed 1134 workers and injured at least 2515, textile artists Monika…

In light of the recent demolition of Rice University’s Art Barn and the slated closure of UTD’s Art Barn, it seems fitting to celebrate an organization that imagines that cities…

Perhaps as proof of the enduring influence of Rice University’s Art Barn, which was torn down last week, University of Texas at Dallas art alums and advocates are in the throes…

Art League Houston has named Havel Ruck Projects (Dan Havel and Dean Ruck) for its Artists of the Year 2014 award and selected Stephanie Smither as its Patron of the…

Finally, art is useful. Take it from Audrey Lopato, a lady sporting a spoon on her forehead afixed with a yellow headband, who runs a banana stand in a food truck…

Few communities are close-knit enough to call to order an annual gathering and feast to celebrate each other and their space in the world, but Marfa, TX is one of…

Unless you are very well-connected to wide art-market networks, getting renowned art professionals–curators, educators, artists–into your studio may be a long-shot, especially of you are just starting out as an…

The National Endowment for the Arts isn’t funding art like it used to back before the so-called cultural wars led to the gutting of the budget. But that doesn’t mean…

San Antonio’s Fl!ght Gallery, located in the popular South Flores Arts District, has announced that it will be moving to the Blue Star Arts Complex in time for the monthly…

In the lifelong battle that is eeking out a living for most artists, navigating the mystifying world of grants and creative financial support can be a quagmire few are brave enough to…

After setting aside only the metal siding that used to cover its exterior, at the request of a group of alumni, Rice University went ahead with its plans to demolish the…

CORE program alumnus and director of the LA-based Machine Project, Mark Allen, comes to Houston this week pulling along a big bag of tricks to unpack—three nights + three venues…

The Dallas Museum of Art will be the first stop on a nine-city tour of the US for Japanese artist and art world big-shot Takashi Murakami’s live action film Jellyfish…

The University of North Texas recently purchased the massive photography collection of the Williams family, an old Fort Worth band of fathers and sons who were all photographers and who have been…

Margaret Crow, art collector, philanthropist and wife of famed developer Trammell Crow, died from natural causes at her home in Dallas Friday night, the Dallas Morning News reports . Crow and her…

The Dallas Art Fair kicked off Thursday, and the reports are starting to trickle in. D Magazine picks the top 10 galleries it wants you to see (beware the glut of…