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Sue Graze, former executive director of Austin’s Arthouse at the Jones Center, has been named the interim director of San Antonio’s artist residency Artpace. This is following the departure of…

In spite of Houston’s miserable weather on Sunday evening, lots of folks came out to find out the results of two local micro grants at galleryHOMELAND. The entrants for the…

The announcement: Some very wealthy people made some very generous donations that will allow the Museum of Fine Arts Houston to expand dramatically. It will create, essentially, a new campus…

This weekend, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will present “Monet on Ice,” and transform Cullinan Hall into a full-size ice-skating rink. Entrance to the rink, which can accommodate…

    by Brian Boucher, Monday, January 12, 2015 We’ve heard of starving artists going to all sorts of extremes, but this may take the cake. Artist Joseph Gibbons has…

In conjunction with the Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, Houston’s Menil Collection will present a panel discussion called “The Influence of Gandhi and King on Hip-Hop Culture”…

The AAMD, or Association of Art Museum Directors, has published it’s first  “Art Museums by the Numbers” report, aimed at informing outsiders of the impact of museums on their communities.…

Houston’s Project Row Houses and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago have announced the launch of The 2:2:2 Exchange, a new artist residency exchange program, in 2015. It’s a first-time…

Two of Dallas’ newer, splashier galleries in the Design District, Cydonia and Zhulong, are holding the first installment of a planned ongoing workshop/seminar called “Art Collecting 101” next Saturday, January…

In a carefully worded press release Thursday, the Houston Arts Alliance announced the beginning of a new attempt at selecting an artist for a large commission at the George R.…

The art space up to now known as The Brandon, at 1709 Westheimer Road in Houston, is no longer. The new project taking root there and scheduled to open January 16 with a…

Yesterday’s terrorist attack on the Paris headquarters of the weekly French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left a dozen dead, including four well-known cartoonists: Stéphane Charbonnier, the publication’s top editor, as…

A couple of days ago the Goss-Micheal Foundation (in)formally announced that it had added Michael Mazurek, the ultra-active Dallas artist and co-founder of the DB/Dallas Biennial series, as its “newest member…

For those who haven’t yet seen the latest issue of Vogue, there is a feature article on Ballroom Marfa’s new Executive Director Susan Sutton. Sutton, who assumed the position in…

    11:11 a.m. Wed. Okay, they keep on coming, so no more updates from me. Keep an eye on this DMN blog courtesy the intrepid Robert Wilonsky if you…

Besides networking and absorbing the interesting lectures and sessions, participants in the two-day seminar charge: practicum—which took place in early November at Art League Houston (ALH)—were invited to apply for…

PrintAustin, a non-profit outfit dedicated to raising awareness of Austin’s impressive status as a hotbed of printmaking, begins its third annual month-long showcase of prints. Beginning January 15 and hosted…

To most Texans, Marfa is just really, really far away. But too often, there is something going on out there that makes us wish for a bullet train to West…

Houston Independent School Distirct has finally hired a teacher just to build an art car with students. Longtime art car specialist Rebecca Bass is in residence at Reagan high school…

Along with more grants, more galleries, and more artists, Peter Simek’s wish list for the Dallas art scene‘s new year in D Magazine included a couple surprises: he mentioned the…