Lucia Simek

For 25 years, Brookfield Office Properties, one of Houston’s biggest downtown landlords, has run a program called Art Set Free wherein the company places artworks in the premier office buildings…

As part of the citywide Dallas Arts Week, April 5-13, Mayor Mike Rawlings will be hosting a panel discussion on Tuesday, April 8, called “Re-imagining Art in Dallas” with a…

Artist and curator Kim Cook will open a new art space in Houston’s East Downtown Warehouse District next month that will straddle various identities: an art gallery for emerging artists, various residency…

Modeling itself off of the principles of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), wherein people pay a monthly fee to receive a farm box full of assorted farm-fresh produce called a…

This year’s FotoFest, called View From Inside: Contemporary Arab Photography, Video and Mixed Media, has already garnered a lot of attention for its intense look at the complexities of art…

The much-loved Austin gallery Tiny Park will shutter its doors at the end of April due to rising rent costs and insufficient sales, reports Seth Orion Schwaiger of The Austin Chronicle. Says…

Questions of stewardship keep coming up in regards to art in public spaces, like Tom Orr and Frances Bagley’s piece in White Rock Lake which is on the docket for…

GASAK is a 23-year-old street artist from South Africa who has been hanging out in Ciudad Juarzez lately, says Austin’s ABC affiliate, KVUE. He’s a man on a mission, painting…

Airing April 3 in Dallas, PBS presents a new series on contemporary architecture called Cool Spaces! The Best New Architecture, hosted by architect and teacher Stephen Chung. While the name…

Billing itself as an artistic “happening” of visual and performing art, the CounterCurrent festival presented by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for Arts will overwhelm Houston, in various venues throughout the…

The debate continues of whether or not the US will instate droit de suite, or artists royalties, for artwork resold at public auction. A bevy of high-powered lawyers from various…

Art.Science.Gallery, one of the nation’s first art galleries to feature exclusively science-related artworks, will open in Austin on April 12 with its first exhibition. Called Geo_____ , the show will…

Joseph Magnano, the Waco artist behind the recent Prada Marfa vandalism, a project he calls TOMS Marfa, has released an open letter to the art world. In it, Magnano speaks about…

You know that thing where you stay up late drinking with friends and you find yourselves getting funnier and funnier as the night wears on? And you know how sometimes…

The New York Times recently highlighted the finesse and acumen of the Dallas Museum of Art’s Islamic Art advisor, Sabiha Al Khemir, on the cusp of the upcoming exhibition she has…

There has been a good deal of conversation lately on the role of public art in cities and the ways and means that city governments commission works and then maintain…

After five years in business, the Austin Center for Photography has decided to close, citing insufficient funding as the main reason for the shuttering. “Over the past year we attempted…

A 45-year-old Alvin High School art teacher, Houston artist Scott Burns, was arrested yesterday on charges of possession of child pornography, KTRK-TV reports. His arrest followed his removal from the…

Some of the artists who work in the small historic arts village of La Villita, which is located in downtown San Antonio, have been there for decades. A new city initiative…

After last week’s media blitz about the most recent defacing/art-application (up to you!) to Prada Marfa by an artist/vandal (also, up to you!) called 9271977, Ballroom Marfa, the art organization tasked…