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Now in its 10th year (!), the Dallas Art Fair, which takes place in April, has released the list of the fair’s 2018 exhibitors. There are some notable newcomers to…

Most Americans know that the first date of Michelle and Barack Obama included a romantic stroll through the Art Institute of Chicago. (While working at a Houston museum, this writer…

The Woodlands High School Art Trust announced today that it has acquired five works by Texas-based artists. Now in its eighth year, the Trust uses proceeds from the school’s Homecoming Dance to…

This weekend, the Will Rogers Complex in Fort Worth will host the Alpaca Fleece Show, reports the Twin City Telegraph. The whole show is bound to be so adorable that…

The Houston Art Alliance (HAA) recently announced their partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs on the Storytellers Program, an initiative aiming to “expand the conversation about arts and culture…

Applications are now open for the Core residency program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. During the nine-month residency, the program’s artists have the opportunity to meet visiting curators,…

Project Row Houses (PRH) and the Center for Art and Social Engagement (CASE) at the University of Houston have announced the PRH-CASE Fellows for 2018: Regina Agu, of Houston, and Eyakem Gulilat,…

There’s a pretty interesting event happening tomorrow, February 3, called “The Festival of the Beautiful,” beginning at 5pm. From the Galveston Artist Residency: “We will leave the Galveston Artist Residency…

Today the Dallas Museum of Art announced the appointment of both a new Deputy Director and a new Decorative Arts Senior Curator. Tamara Wootton-Forsyth, who has been with the museum…

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the commissioned mural, Euphonia, at the University of Houston’s Moores Opera House and the 50th anniversary of Public Art of the UH System,…

This week, Gulf Coast announced the winners of its inaugural Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. Named in honor of the late Toni Beauchamp, who was a key supporter of the journal…

Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock will join the University of Texas at Austin Department of Art and Art History as the spring 2018 artist-in-residence. The residency will take place from…

According to our president’s campaign promises, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) should be long gone by now. Yet the NEA joined with the U.S. Department of Defense, the…

Today the Dallas Museum of Art announced three new acquisitions to its collection. The double-sided drawing, Farm Near Duivendrecht (recto) and The Sea (Ocean 2) (verso) (c. 1905–1914) by Piet Mondrian, and the oil-on-paper work, Woman with…

A good art advisor balances more intricate relationships and knowledge than one would think. (Read artnet News’ article “Art Demystified: What Is The Role of Art Advisors?”) But now, Sotheby’s…

The San Antonio Museum of Art announced this week that it has acquired three works by contemporary African American artists: Kevin Beasley, Rodney McMillian, and Martine Syms. The works by Beasley and McMillian…

Next Saturday, February 3rd in Houston, Aurora Picture Show, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Center for Visual Music are collaborating on a film program featuring the works of…

Glasstire has written much about Marizio Cattelan’s solid eighteen karat gold toilet (here, here, here, and here), from its year-long installation in the fourth-floor restroom of the Guggenheim Museum, to…

William Bryan Jordan Jr. died in Dallas on Monday, Jan. 22 at age 77 of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He is survived by his husband, Robert Dean Brownlee. Via the Dallas Morning…

As artists and arts organizations are being priced out of Austin, the City Council is studying possible strategies to help them stay in the city, reports Chad Swiatecki of the…