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The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) has announced an open call for its annual CraftTexas exhibition. Now in its tenth year, the exhibition will feature works made by contemporary craft artists…

Earlier this week, the US government’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality. Passed in 2015 under the Obama administration, the net neutrality regulation allowed stronger government oversight…

Early this year, FotoFest announced its lead curator (Sunil Gupta) and theme (India) for its 2018 Biennial and Gupta gave a talk at Houston’s Asia Society Texas last month. Now,…

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)—like the NEA, IMLS, and other agencies—is waiting for Congress to pass a federal budget for fiscal year 2018 to know the fate of…

The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation has completed the digital catalogue raisonné of Surrealist Salvador Dalí, reports The Art Newspaper. The 17-year project makes more than 1,000 works between 1910 and 1983—excluding…

Art Basel and BMW have announced that Houston artist Jamal Cyrus is on the shortlist for the upcoming BMW Art Journey prize. Cyrus, along with the two other shortlisted artists (A.K. Burns and Mariela…

A $1 million gift from the Moody Foundation will support renovation of facilities at Dallas’ Southern Methodist University (SMU) Meadows School of the Arts, along with key education projects, reports…

For the first time in a bit, Charles Adams Studio Project (or CASP) in Lubbock has opened up applications for its one- and two-year artist residencies, for both recent grads…

Folks who have spent months handcrafting holiday gifts need to take an evening off and head out to West Texas for a talk by Eric Gorges at the San Angelo…

The Contemporary Austin has announced that Judith Sims, the longtime director of education at the organization’s Laguna Gloria art school, will retire at the end of December. A graduate of UT, Sims…

The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced that 52 arts organizations and 17 artists affected by Hurricane Harvey will receive relief grants. Totaling $446,500, the grants will go towards supplementing…

Round ten of The Idea Fund, a re-granting program administered by a partnership of DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation (at…

At a meeting this week with the Houston arts community, the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) introduced its freshly-minted CEO John Abodeely, and unveiled a host of new grants aimed at improving arts…

The color experts at Pantone have chosen the winner for the color of year 2018: Ultra Violet (#18-3838 for Pantone fans), a “dramatically provocative and thoughtful purple shade.” Color of the…

Artspace111 in Fort Worth has announced it’s now accepting submissions for its fifth annual open-call Regional Juried Exhibition. The space is accepting submissions for new two- and three-dimensional works and the…

Some people thought that the newly revived Splendora Gardens went dormant with the abrupt departure in June of Jeff Wheeler, the Lubbock artist who was brought in to run programming…

This Saturday, December 9 from 4-5:30 p.m. Lawndale Art Center in Houston will toast Francesca Fuchs and her new wall mural at Lawndale. There will be bubbly and beer and food…

What started as a goofball street art project by Austin artists Chris Gannon, Chadwick Wood, and Brockett Davidson has been picked up by the City’s Art in Public Places program…

Dustin and Gina Orlando, the founders and owners of the Dallas gallery Circuit12 Contemporary, have announced that they have not renewed the lease at their Levee Street space and are instead…

Polly G. Koch, age 65, died on November 28, 2017, in Houston’s Montrose area while walking her two dachshunds. A pickup truck struck her at the corner of Mandell Street…