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Earlier this year, David Lindsay, artist and art professor at Texas Tech in Lubbock, developed and launched a clever new smartphone app that allows artists to create site-specific works that play…

As executor of their estate, Houstonian Ron Roseman traveled to New Mexico to deal with the house of his favorite aunt and uncle. He cleaned out some older furniture, some…

The Meadows Museum in Dallas confirmed yesterday that Curator Nicole Atzbach died this past weekend with the following statement: It is with great sadness that we inform you that Nicole…

Today, the Houston gallery Art Palace announced that the next show that opens in its Isabella Court gallery space will be its last in its space, after which it will…

Although the Art F City website has slowed its postings, the NYC-centric blog has been writing about the joys and stupid goofiness of the art world for years. The site’s…

This week, the University of Houston is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the National Women’s Conference with a selection of panels, talks, and educational sessions discussing the challenges women face and…

Dallas literary non-profit WordSpace has been hosting excellent writers, speakers, and musicians for a long time, and this Thursday, November 9, WordSpace and the Webb Gallery out of Waxahachie will…

Applications are now open for the Meadows Museum at SMU’s Moss/Chumley North Texas Artist Award. Given annually to a North Texas artist who has been active for ten or more…

San Antonio artspace Sala Diaz announced this weekend that they have named Dean Daderko the 2017 Casa Chuck Resident. Begun in 2011 as an extension of Sala Diaz, the residency…

Later this month, three major private Texas art collections will be auctioned by Christie’s in New York. They are (via Christie’s): The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass (Fort Worth,…

The Houston Cinema Arts Society and NASA have announced the 13 international finalists in third annual CineSpace short film competition. They received almost 700 submissions representing 55 countries, reports Markets…

On Friday, November 3, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will open an off-campus satellite gallery at 714 Yale Street, in a retail development called Heights Mercantile. The new space…

Nostalgia is the air this week at two different art spaces. Today, November 2, Wedge Space will present a “performance/talk” in conjunction with the current exhibition The Scene: (Houston 1969-1981)…

Today, Art League Houston (ALH) announced that its Executive Director, Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, has stepped down. Dr. Willetts was hired by the organization in May of this year following a five-month…

And we thought we were clever when we posted the two different stories of “head art,” as manifested by fans of the Houston Astros versus the L.A. Dodgers. It turns…

Art historian Linda Nochlin died at the age of 86, reports ARTnews. Perhaps best known for her essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” from 1970, Nochlin changed…

This coming weekend, from November 2-5, the 2017 International Quilt Festival Houston is overtaking the George R. Brown Convention Center (GRB). Founded in 1974, the annual festival features hundreds of exhibitors, talks, special…

Early this morning, October 30, an open letter was posted on the website not-surprised.org, signed by almost 2,000 arts professionals. In response to the recent sexual misconduct scandal involving Artforum…

The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) has announced that they are beginning to accept applications from organizations and artists who were affected by Hurricane Harvey. Of the grant money available…

Starting this weekend, multiple art spaces across Texas are hosting exhibitions and special events celebrating the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). While this year’s holiday officially…