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If you are in an area that hasn’t been hit by the horrible weather in the past couple of days, count yourself lucky, because the flooding and storms have whipped…

Dallas-based Sam Wyly (along with his brother Charles) was a “maverick entrepreneur” worth more than a billion dollars until the Securities and Exchange Commission popped him for hiding stock trades…

If you’ve never seen it, the Google Chrome extension Abstract Browsing by Dutch-Brasilian artist Rafaël Rozendaal is a sight for sore eyes. In the artist’s words, “install it, and the…

This story is getting weirder by the day. The artist Margarita Cabrera makes a public work for the city of El Paso according to plan, the city (or someone at the…

It almost goes without saying that tonight is the night we get to watch Francisco Moreno’s (very) customized 1975 Datsun spin out in donuts inside a warehouse in Trinity Groves.…

It’s one of those bad moments when you are alerted to the fact that someone you admire for his work believes something really, really stupid. I can either keep typing, which will eat…

DFW: Here’s a great way to kick off your summer. An annual neighborhood art studio tour in Oak Cliff called the Visual Speedbump Art Tour started in 2000, and the 2015 tour…

San Anto Cultural Arts, a San Antonio-based non-profit arts outfit that gives support to artists and creative people of all socio-economic backgrounds, has just announced its appointment of a new…

(Disclaimer: This is not really news, but a personal reaction to current art news. After this post, I will return to the usual semi-objective news.) Performance art, to me, is…

500X, the storied building and long-running artist co-op in Dallas, has released two intriguing bits of information. 1) They are hosting something called Project Space Rentals, which is sort of…

Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) has announced that five more arts organizations are choosing to become W.A.G.E. Certified, including Houston’s DiverseWorks. W.A.G.E. is a New York-based activist organization…

The South Flores Arts District will soon have two new galleries, both in the Lone Star Studios building, reports the San Antonio Express-News. Bill FitzGibbons, artist and former director of…

After Museum Tower in Dallas sprang up three years ago with its accompanying blinding glare– which proved detrimental to its neighboring Nasher Sculpture Center’s whole reason for being– an internationally watched…

Above is a photo of artist Robert Rauschenberg and engineer Billy Klüver working on Oracle (1965). Klüver explained the origins of the artwork: “Bob Rauschenberg… had asked me to collaborate…

Nearly seven years after being devastated by Hurricane Ike, the Galveston Arts Center has received a grant for $1 million from the Moody Foundation to complete the restoration of their…

There’s been a lot of discussion around this in the past couple of days, of course, but to get a better idea of the big picture, please read Carolina A Miranda’s…

Bill Steffy (William George Steffy), beloved artist and mainstay of the Houston art scene, died this morning. He was 82. Steffy was born in Moline, Illinois, in 1933. He studied…

While reporting on the record-breaking Christie’s auction sale of Picasso’s “The Women of Algiers” ($179 million), Fox News evidently decided that highly abstracted boobs and crotchal regions of the women depicted in…

Mayor Annise Parker wants to get Houston’s Arts and Cultural Plan in order before she leaves office. The City has hired consultants, held a number of public meetings, and is…

The established Aurora Festival might be Dallas-based (not to be confused with Houston’s Aurora Picture Show), but you don’t have to live in DFW to be featured. The big multi-media festival,…