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By now we all know about Tinder, the “swipe left if you hate me, swipe right if you think I’m pretty” hookup app that has swept the nation since 2012. Now a…

Houston artist Autumn Knight has been selected as artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. The Studio Museum is a big deal; the residency is a…

Landmarks, the University of Texas at Austin’s public art program, recently announced their new acquisition of works by Ann Hamilton and Marc Quinn. Hamilton’s piece, a commissioned work for the university’s recently built Dell…

Galleries and independent art spaces are taking advantage of the slow summer months to put on shows and events that otherwise wouldn’t fit into their programming. This weekend in particular,…

No words. To view some artists’ reactions, go here.

Today Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio announced that it’s the recipient of a Warhol Foundation Grant for $100,000 as a two-year gift in support of its exhibition programming. This is the…

No offense intended, but a number of artists probably fall within the low end of the autism spectrum. The Texas State University Round Rock Campus will explain why. On Saturday,…

Claudia Schmuckli, the Director and Chief Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston is leaving to take on the role of Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of…

Laura Somers, an LA-based independent filmmaker best known for Love 10 to 1 (2009), is returning to Pasadena, Texas to cast and shoot a feature-length movie called Rich Kids. It’s an…

ArtSkool is a project of John Logan, Abby Bagby, and Rachael Anderson designed to “enlighten and excite those with limited-to-no exposure to visual culture about art through discussions about theory…

The world famous satirical art duo The Yes Men have a new project that “launches” today, the 4th of July. Comprised of a press release video, a promotional video, and a website selling…

If you need a history refresher on American independence, catch Christina Rees’ throwback find of Schoolhouse Rocks.

Last Friday, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston kicked off a twelve-film program celebrating the 100th birthday of actress Olivia de Havilland, who is the last surviving cast member of the 1939…

The Dallas Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have jointly acquired Walter De Maria’s sculpture Large Rod Series: Circle/Rectangle, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 (1986). Additionally, the…

On July 8th from 6-9 p.m., the Menil’s bookstore in Houston is hosting an exhibition of artist books by Austin favorite Kevin McNamee-Tweed. (The bookstore, in a bungalow across the…

Rick Lowe, founding director of Project Row Houses, is joining the faculty of the University of Houston’s College of the Arts as a clinical associate professor of art, reports the…

Via Bowerbird: Last December, the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock (Lubbock’s hub for visual art) received a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, and “it has…

The Artspace El Paso Lofts, a downtown El Paso building designed for low-income artists, is expected to be completed in mid-November, reports KFOX14. When it is finished, the building will…

Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, generally one of the better art fairs in Miami during its big annual art fair week in the first week of Decemebr, has a dedicated platform for…

Less than a week ago, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced that the museum will no longer be built in Chicago, reports the New York Times. After year of…