Lucia Simek

The Contemporary Austin will host an evening for teens celebrating the art of hiding, as if teenagers don’t have that skill mastered already, at an event called Le Caché: A…

Beginning in June, the Blanton Museum of Art at University of Texas at Austin will implement the use of a series of works of art-cum-creative work stations made by artist Leslie Mutchler,…

McKinney Avenue Contemporary’s Executive Director Lisa Hees has announced she is leaving the art space after three years at the helm, effective June 1.  Hees will pursue arts related opportunities…

A street art collective in Austin known as SprATX has been sending folks all over town on mad-crazy scavenger hunts every Friday night. The treasure? Free art. Small token artworks…

It’s a fairly common problem: you go to art school, make lots of stuff using all the available tools, get used to the convenience, graduate, and then lose the free…

  By popular demand, this week The Contemporary Austin premieres the film The Vision of Paolo Soleri: Prophet in the Desert for the first time in Texas as part of…

In an effort to make art viewers look at art at a more contemplative pace, museums across the world will participate in Slow Art Day this Saturday, April 12. The…

As if the plain old art market wasn’t enough of a rat race, more and more, as museums across the country attempt to become more entrepreneurial in an effort to…

This summer, as you drive around the country, keep your eyes peeled for billboards and other signage emblazoned with gigantic images of art. As part of a cooperative agreement between…

On April 18, San Antonio’s Linda Pace Foundation will open SPACE, an exhibition space designed by San Antonio architect Jim Poteet, FAIA,  which will house the collection of artist and…

  You know your city is making art market strides when a group of guys opens a high-end, climate controlled warehouse for all the overflow art to go. As the…

George W. Bush’s much-anticipated painting show opens tomorrow at the 43rd President’s library and museum on the SMU campus in Dallas! Foregoing the innocuous subject matter of his earliest paintings—dogs,…

On Tuesday, April 8, the 38-foot high bronze sculpture Tree and Three Flowers by the artist James Surls will be formally dedicated as a work of public art on Kirby…

The brand-name mural has become a staple of the annual Goss-Michael Foundation’s  MTV RE:DEFINE auction, benefitting MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation and the Dallas Contemporary, in addition to the gala party,…

As the election of Francis showed us in 2013, it’s hard to top the spectacle of a papal election. But you know what comes close? A papal burial. And now…

After settling into their new Calles Street space last fall after two years of operating as a nomadic gallery, the non-profit, artist/creative-run Austin space MASS Gallery announces plans to hand…

TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, have announced the collectors and art patrons Lisa and John Runyon as the 2014 Event Chairs and artist Wade Guyton as the recipient…

Robert Stein, Deputy Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, announced yesterday that Shyam Oberoi has been appointed as the Director of Technology and Digital Media. Oberoi is currently the…

Perhaps taking to heart David Byrne and Patti Smith’s recent disavowals of the Big Apple for pushing out young talent through high cost of living, Rob Weingart returns to his…

On Saturday night, after a rapid and intense battle against cancer following a diagnosis of the disease less than six months ago, the artist Theo Wujcik passed away at his…