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Houston art space Project Row Houses (PRH) and Chicago’s Hyde Park Art Center recently announced the artists that will participate in the second round of the organizations’ residency exchange program, the…

Last weekend, vendors and their art took over Houston’s Memorial Park for the 46th annual Bayou City Art Festival. If you missed it, fret not—more art markets are on their way!…

Employees at the Centre Pompidou (affectionately known by Parisians as the “Bo Bo,” after the area of Beaubourg where the museum is located) have been on strike all week, making…

Last week 34-year-old artist Corrina Mehiel was murdered in Washington D.C. The art teacher and project assistant to Mel Chin was found in a basement apartment the afternoon of March 21. She had been…

A new study shows that leading U.S. museums now devote almost half of their temporary exhibitions to contemporary art, reports The Art Newspaper. 44% of the shows organized by 29…

Houston Arts Alliance (HAA), in collaboration with the Houston Mayor’s Office, has been hammering out a new Arts + Cultural Plan. The thrust of this is “to create grants services that are…

This Friday, March 31 at 10am, Houston’s Fresh Arts (in partnership with the Center for Art and Social Engagement at University of Houston) will present a workshop called “Funding Strategies…

A three-year residence at the Dallas Contemporary of Richard Phillips’ Playboy Marfa is coming to a close. The Dallas Contemporary has announced that the piece, which was installed for Phillips’…

Fort Worth-based artist Christopher Blay, who may be better known as his alter ego Frank Artsmarter, will soon be artist-in -residence at the Dallas Museum of Art’s Center for Creative…

New York City’s Department of Transportation announced recently that The Fearless Girl, a bronze statue by Kristen Visbal that was installed facing Arturo Di Modica’s iconic Charging Bull sculpture on Wall Street, will…

The San Antonio Express-News reports that it will run “Breaking Cat News” seven days a week, beginning today, March 27. About 100 other newspapers will also start carrying the comic…

The Houston Rodeo is wrapping up this weekend and auction results are out for this year’s Rodeo School Art Program auction. Last year, we reported that the grand champion artwork sold for $185,000,…

This weekend, the Bayou City Art Festival returns to Houston’s Memorial Park. Featuring nearly 300 artists from across America hocking their wares, the festival is an event where you can go…

Since 1985, the City of Houston has awarded more than 780 Houston artists more than $4.5 million through individual artist grants. Yesterday the Office of the Mayor announced the list…

Artist Corrina Mehiel, age 34, was found murdered in Washington, D.C. Her body was found in a basement apartment the afternoon of March 21, reports artnet News. She had been…

Years ago developers started talking about an ambitious project called Flora Lofts, in the Dallas Arts District, that would provide affordable live/work space for dozens of artists (visual artists, musicians, actors, dancers, writers) as…

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re…

  Today the Office of the Mayor of the City of Dallas announced that, as of this coming April 1, Dallas Arts Week has officially expanded into Dallas Arts Month. Mayor…

Arts Take Action Houston (ATAH), an informal coalition of artists and arts activists formed in January, is holding a Town Hall Meeting on April 3 at the Station Museum of…

This weekend, March 24 and 25 (Friday and Saturday), sees two major public print events in Lubbock. One is the inaugural High Plains Print+Music Festival in Lubbock, which will showcase contemporary…