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Dallas’ Office of Cultural Affairs has launched a new funding program for non-profits and individual artists. The “Cultural Projects Program – Special Support Grants” is earmarked for awards ranging from $1000 to…

In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors were female, obviously skewing much of its content and perspectives. So, last year, Art+Feminism hosted…

Daniel Atkinson is in charge of public programs and artists’ talks at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and tomorrow night at CentralTrak, artists and other interested parties can hear his take…

The panel for the $830,000 commission at the George R. Brown Convention Center (GRB) met Monday night and the Civic Art Committee (CAC) of the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) met…

For years, if you missed one or live outside of DFW, you could listen to a podcast of any of the individual lectures from the excellent long-running series, Tuesday Evenings…

For those who have yet to fully react with Stendhal syndrome at the Mel Chin fest that’s been going on in Houston, there’s one more must-see. Speed Art Museum’s Curator…

As Deep Ellum transitions, the siren song of the Design District can’t be silenced. The Public Trust opened its doors on Commerce Street in Deep Ellum in 2006 (then under…

The art aficionados over at USA Today are holding a “Reader’s Choice” contest for “America’s Best Art District.” They’ve narrowed it down to 20 nominees with many usual suspects in…

Space is pretty — NASA has been taking pictures of it for 50 years — and much of their imagery is public domain. Houston Cinema Arts Festival has partnered with…

Amongst the various tributes to Leonard Nimoy via social media over the last few hours (many of us Gen-Xers are not taking this well), Dallas artist Rob Wilson created a particularly…

Art League Houston and W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) have announced that The Art League is now one of a handful of “WAGE Certified” nonprofits for 2015. This…

And the Dallas Art District continues to grow: A new residential tower is going up at the corner of Flora and Olive, called Atelier/Flora Lofts (and next door to Museum Tower),…

Since August 2013, when the Live Oak Friends Meeting House had to close its public viewings of James Turrell’s One Accord Skyscape due to water damage, no one has really…

Today was the first (will it be annual?) National Adjunct Walkout Day; at noon on college campuses across the country, adjunct professors were urged by a common cause to walk away…

Yesterday, as Glasstire’s Christina Rees posted her Weaver Watch (former DMA curator Suzanne Weaver’s exit from Miami’s Institute of Contemporary Art), the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art also announced the appointment…

Continuing our devotion to watching the movements of former DMA curator Suzanne Weaver: Six months after the announcement of Weaver’s appointment as director of Miami’s beleaguered Institute of Contemporary Art (formerly…

The Dallas Morning News’ Michael Granberry reported last night that the Dallas Museum of Art, the Kimbell Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Crow Collection of…

One section of the coast-to-coast Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) series, called the Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, has struck fear in the heart of local residents. On a stretch of Interstate 10…

Tomorrow night (February 24 at 7pm), photography and video will battle it out in a talk at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Curator Andrea Karnes will hold a…

Last Thursday, Houston, Rice U professor Anthony Pinn and rapper Bernard “Bun B” Freeman launched a new book of collaborative writings on churches and hip-hop, authored by the CERCL Writing…