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Most Texans have seen those blank canvas fiberglass cow sculptures (created by a Swiss sculpture and featured in other international cities) that artists and art classes slap paint on to…

This Saturday, Sept. 23 in Houston there’s a major free workshop aimed at artists, galleries, and collectors for helping them salvage water-damaged art objects following Hurricane Harvey. The four organizers are…

  The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston announced today the appointment of Bradley Bailey as curator of Asian art, reports Artforum. The MFAH has been without a curator in this area…

Today the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) announced the appointment of its new CEO, John Abodeely. Abodeely, the former Acting Executive Director and Deputy Director for the President’s Committee on the…

The Lost Pines Art Center, located in Bastrop (about 30 miles southeast of Austin), is near completion of “a nerve center for arts in Central Texas,” reports the Austin American-Statesman.…

Tonight the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas announced the winner of the 2018 Nasher Prize: acclaimed American artist Theaster Gates. The Nasher Prize, which is $100,000, is now in its…

This fall, the Art League Houston (ALH) was planning an ambitious retrospective of their 2017 Texas Artist of the Year, Trenton Doyle Hancock. The show was originally set to open on September…

Last week, flyers reading “Beware the International Jew,” “Imagine a Muslim-Free America” and “We Have the Right to Exist” were found throughout the main campus of the University of Houston…

All arts and cultural organizations impacted by Hurricane Harvey need to attend a county mandatory briefing in order to register/apply for FEMA Public Assistance. Registration for FEMA may be a…

On September 7, Google’s Cultural Institute went live with a massive archive of Latino history in the U.S. — it’s the biggest digital archive of U.S. Latino art curated online, and…

As Hurricane Harvey recedes into the distance, stories continue to emerge about the people and places affected by the Category 4 storm. The Houston Chronicle is reporting that an indoor…

Art Walk West is in its third year now in Dallas and takes place tomorrow, Saturday Sept. 16. Presented by the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce, the walk goes from 11…

The French photographer and artist JR has placed a huge scaffolding installation on the Mexican side of the border between the United States and Mexico reports My San Antonio. The mural…

Earlier this year, artist and writer Anne Doran and New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman published The Dream Colony: A Life in Art, a book about the life and work of Menil…

In a talk yesterday at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Solange Knowles described working with art institutions as feeling that they think “you should just be happy to be…

Museum Month San Antonio takes place for the first time in October of this year. It means that most of San Antonio’s most notable arts and culture institutions will offer…

The Yes Men, collaborative artists and political activists Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, are bringing their shenanigans to the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts next…

Update: September 14, 3:15PM: This workshop has been cancelled due to a lack of enrollment. If you need help, please email the Houston Archives Collective.  This Saturday, September 16, from…

The Rockport Center for the Arts (RCA) was scheduled to host the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s annual Birds in Art exhibition starting in September 2017. Then came Hurricane Harvey,…

  Art students at Texas A&M in Bryan-College Station are having a hard time finding art supplies, reports Katherine Garcia of The Battalion. Unlike most college towns with an art…