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The Menil Collection in Houston today announced the appointment of two new curators: Irene Mei Zhi Shum as Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, and Natalie Dupêcher as Assistant Curator of Modern Art. Both begin…

Austin’s “Graffiti Park” is being relocated, but 2-D public art is still strong. The annual temporary public art program TEMPO, usually outdoor sculptural installations, is expanding. Through the new TEMPO…

This coming Thursday, March 29, Colorado-based artist James Surls is returning to his native state to lecture at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. The program is…

The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin has added to its collection the photographic archive of Stephen Shames. “I hope students and scholars…

Lawndale Art Center in Houston has announced that applications for its 2018-2019 Artist Studio Program (ASP) are now open to Texas and Gulf Coast-based artists. The program this year seems to be…

Today, March 24, 2018, marks the second day of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s eighth Five Funny French Films series. Put on yearly by the museum’s outstanding Film department, the…

Houston Cinema Arts Society (HCAS) has an ongoing collaboration with NASA called CineSpace; it’s an annual international short film competition “that offers filmmakers around the world a chance to share…

LA’s Hammer Museum’s current exhibition, Stories of Almost Everyone, has been deemed by the LA Times art critic Christopher Knight as cold and “pendantic,” reports artnet News. In fact, the…

  This past November Houston gallery Art Palace announced the closing of its physical space as it began to transition to a new business model. Today, Art Palace’s Arturo Palacios and Hilary…

It has long been known that developers follow artists, capitalizing on the cool, cultural neighborhoods. The Nasher Sculpture Center fought for years against the shiny Museum Tower building, which reflected…

DiverseWorks in Houston, in partnership with its artist advisory board, has announced the schedule and lineup for the next installment of its popular “12 Minutes Max!” series, which brings you…

Glasstire, the Statesman, and the Daily Texan have reported extensively on the University of Texas’ removal of books from the UT Fine Arts Library (UTFAL). Now, the Statesman reports that…

Today Art League Houston (ALH) announced the recipients of its annual Houston-centric art awards. For 2018, ALH’s Artist of the Year is Francesca Fuchs; its Lifetime Achievement Award goes to…

This Thursday, March 22, is supposed to be bright and sunny in Galveston, so it’s excusable if folks want to play hooky and head to the beach. Just end the…

A month from now, from April 18-21, museum professionals will invade Houston for the Texas Association of Museums’ annual meeting. Tracing its roots back to conferences of museum professionals in the…

Two decades ago, New York’s Guggenheim Museum opened an exhibition called “The Art of the Motorcycle,” which some considered to be a flashy sell-out show that had little do with…

91-year-old Houston artist David Adickes is known for his large-scale sculptures. If you’ve ever driven from Houston to Dallas, you’ve come across his giant (67 foot tall) concrete statue of Sam Houston,…

This week, the Rockport Center for the Arts announced that its former building, located at 902 Navigation Circle, on the Aransas Bay, is to be razed. The Victorian building, which has housed…

  Every April is Dallas Arts Month, along with Dallas Arts Week (which begins this year on April 9), and it lines up with the annual Dallas Art Fair (in…

New York’s Creative Time has a project called “Pledges of Allegiance,” a serialized commission of sixteen flags, which was launched on Flag Day (June 14). Every month, a new flag…