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(Via the Dallas Observer): The Dallas Art Fair‘s founder, Chris Byrne, has created a new director position and filled the spot with Kelly Cornell, an SMU grad who started out…

Multimedia artist Peter Svarzbein grew up in El Paso, went off to New York to attend the School of Visual Arts (SVA), and eventually made his way back to El…

Identical life-sized sculptures of a very naked Donald Trump have cropped up in NYC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland and Seattle. It’s a selfie bonanza! Stylized but also-kinda-accurate, the statue lacks…

“Changarrito” is an art vending cart based out of Mexico. There are multiple Changarrito carts circulating throughout the world— all with the same objective of promoting original artwork to the…

An announcement came through Facebook today that after two years of development, Bike Marfa is up and running. This bike-share program/app in the art-pilgrimage town right now boasts 14 brand-spanking…

Houston, what’s the big deal about the Big Show, Lawndale Art Center’s annual open-call juried exhibition? Well, if you missed last week’s presentation, you missed half of the story. But…

Yesterday the Dallas Museum of Art announced the launch of its own mobile-friendly app—a dedicated and varied way for visitors to interact with the museum’s collections and exhibitions. Remember: the…

On August 1, a law went into effect in Texas that made it legal to carry concealed firearms into public university campus buildings. Next week, students at the University of…

For the past week and a half, 207 nations and 11,178 athletes have been battling it out in Rio for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. This year’s festivities have not been without their…

The Sustainable Arts Foundation is offering awards of up to $6,000 to writers and artists with children. The money can be used for costs such as childcare, workspaces, new equipment,…

For the past few months, The Contemporary Austin’s Jones Center has been undergoing a major $3 million renovation. The project includes an expansion of the institution’s exhibition space (from 5,100 square feet…

Texas art critic/historian/curator Andy Campbell has recently accepted a position at the USC Roski School of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of UT’s art history PhD program, Campbell wrote regularly for the…

The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has announced the fall season lineup for its ongoing 360 speaker series. Via Nasher: the series “…features conversations and lectures on the ever-expanding definition of…

As recently reported by the Houston Chronicle and Artforum, Rice University’s new Moody Center for the Arts (MCA) will open to the public in February 2017. Although last year’s press…

For the past four years, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio has partnered with Künstlerhaus Bethanien (KB) in Berlin to send over/exchange artist residents. Blue Star sends Texas artists to Berlin each…

Well, we’re ashamed to have missed International Cat Day on Monday, August 8, but we’ll try to make up for it by sharing an article from the Austin American-Statesman about…

According to Eater Houston, there will soon be a new gallery in town. Why is Eater reporting on this? Because it will also be a café. And an art school.…

In April, the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) launched the first edition of its quarterly arts zine called BINDER. Published by Super Hit Press (along with GAR), the first volume features…

Sigmund Freud explained artistic motivation from the viewpoint of a psychoanalyst (a defense mechanism protecting against neurosis), but now Jason Horejs, founder of Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, has explained…

Stefan Simchowitz, the notorious art flipper/dealer that everyone loves to hate, is at it again. In a recent telephone interview with artnet News, Simchowitz put on his economist hat and theorized about the…