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This fall, Houston native Jason Moran began a multi-year residency with Da Camera in partnership with the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. Besides working with…

Amongst Dallas-based arts writers who actually write critically about visual art, Loris Gréaud’s show at the Dallas Contemporary is zero for three. (We won’t count the glowing PR blurbs from machines…

According to Blouin Artinfo, the “first ever exhibition of contemporary art from the state of Texas in the United States of America to be hosted in New Delhi” opened this…

SMU’s National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) has released its first annual Arts Vibrancy Index, which ranks towns according to their “vibrancy”, consisting of a complex mix of supply, demand…

Saturday is National Beer Can Appreciation Day, and there’s no better way to celebrate this holiday of holidays than by paying a visit to one of Houston’s most iconic landmarks…

Texas A&M University-Commerce has commissioned North Carolina-based sculptor Patrick Dougherty, an artist known for his massive outdoor bent-sapling installations, to create a new temporary public artwork for the campus. The artist,…

Admit it: Bravo’s “Work of Art” was a great show and the idiotic artistic clichés it portrayed are actually kind of true. For those who are jonesing to watch artists…

A five-alarm fire that broke out in a warehouse behind the 4000 block of Commerce Street in Dallas on December 15 has displaced a number of residential and commercial tenants of…

   Did You Know Today is Museum Selfie Day? By Daria Daniel Selfie lovers come one, come all; today is Museum Selfie Day, back for its second iteration. The website…

“Artistic success is established and measured through writing — a creative field often undervalued and overlooked.” So says French & Michigan director Billy Lambert in an email to the organization’s…

The “New Sincerity” movement began with music in the mid-eighties (thanks, Austin!), spread to literary and film criticism in the nineties, and now—from the looks of upcoming events in Texas—the…

Houston artists Nohelia Vargas Bolivar and Liza Littlefield have asked that their work be removed from Houston City Hall as a show of solidarity with artist Ed Wilson, who was…

A year after the death of folk artist Cleveland Turner, a.k.a. The Flower Man, his Houston house on Francis Street and much of its contents have been found unsalvageable due…

Well, it certainly has been a busy week at the Dallas Contemporary. First, it announced the addition of two new curators to its staff; then the much-anticipated, five-years-in-the-making, take-over-the-entire-gallery-space exhibition…

German-born NY artist Oliver Herring is coming to Houston, and Diverseworks Art Space is looking for unpaid “studio assistants” to participate in his performance-based art. Herring will be in residence…

Look out Chinati! The Tropics, a new residency in Marfa that aims to be “the catalyst of the new artistic zeitgeist in Marfa, TX” has opened. “Curated by invitation only,…

The Texas Cultural Trust has embarked on its eighth biennial of honoring “amazing Texans who have made powerful contributions to the arts here at home and around the world” with…

Sara Kellner, quickly appointed as interim Director of Civic Art + Design by the Houston Art Alliance on December 10 after the resignation of former Civic Art Director Matthew Lennon,…

The giant faded mural on the 5900 block of Canal Street in Houston is getting a restoration. “The Rebirth of Our Nationality” was painted in 1973 by artist Leo Tanguma and some…

Jonathon Glus, President and CEO of the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA), may not have been getting much love in Glasstire’s comment sections since the late November brouhaha over the artwork…