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Those who were fortunate enough to see the 2010 exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (or elsewhere) know that Hendricks is the…

The Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA, org. 2003) will hold its 15th Annual Texas Art Fair and Symposium on Early Texas Art in Fort Worth…

If you think about it long enough, everything is a sort of performance art, but not everyone knows to call it that. But broadcaster Alex Jones is now a “performance…

Yesterday, people across the world celebrated Easter by taking Holy Communion, a religious ritual that served as Leonardo da Vinci’s subject for his 1490s fresco The Last Supper in the Convent of Santa Maria…

Of course, watching a movie can’t change the world, but it can start educating folks. Tonight at 7:30pm, Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will screen Gathering Our Hearts At Standing Rock,…

Last weekend, the Houston Art Car Parade celebrated its 30th anniversary with a profusion of events, culminating in a procession of more than 250 vehicles led by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Grand Marshal Cheech…

This week, Arturo Di Modica, the artist behind Wall Street’s infamous Charging Bull sculpture, called for the removal of the recently installed Fearless Girl statue. In case you haven’t been following the story,…

The Galveston Art Center is hosting a photography workshop led by exhibiting photographer Steve R. Fisher on Saturday, April 15th, from 2 pm – 4 pm. The workshop, part of GAC’s Exhibit-Connect Workshop…

Artist Carolee Schneemann has won the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement, reports Artforum and many other art news sources. A pioneer of feminist performance of the early 1960s,…

Every season the lecture series Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (at the Modern at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) hosts at least a few international bona-fide bigwigs that…

Next week will be all things ceramic in San Angelo. Centering around the San Angelo Ceramic Invitational exhibition at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, there will be tons…

Saturday, April 29 will mark President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office and he has already inspired two exhibitions in Houston. Although the press release for The First 100 Days:…

A new Texas art-based award, the Richard Brettell Award in the Arts, has given its first $150K prize to internationally acclaimed landscape architect Peter Walker. Walker is best recognized in…

Artist and UT Austin professor Clay Odom will represent Austin at UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN)’s collective exhibition of the nine Media Arts Creative Cities opening in France in late…

This coming Wednesday, April 12th, Fusebox Festival in Austin returns for its 13th year. The festival features a hefty lineup of art exhibitions, theatrical performances, dances, and daily chats supplemented by free waffles, and will run through…

This Wednesday, April 12, Houston’s DiverseWorks will present a lecture entitled “Criticism is Dead. Long Live Criticism.” by Claudia La Rocco, poet, critic, performer, and editor-in-chief of SFMOMA’s Open Space.…

This past Friday, April 7, was Mary Mikel Stump’s last day as director of exhibitions at the Southwest School of Art, reports My San Antonio. Before coming to the Southwest School of Art…

If you’re not at the Dallas Art Fair ogling the seven works the Dallas Museum of Art purchased with their new $100K acquisition program, come down to the 30th annual Houston Art…

In addition to all the work Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) bought at the Dallas Art Fair the other day, the DMA announced that it had just acquired Jackson Pollock’s…

The Dallas Art Fair is upon us for the ninth year running, and just like last year, this year the Dallas Museum of Art has dropped some cash on artworks…