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The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Menil Collection $65,000 to support Barnett Newman: The Late Work, scheduled for March 27 – August 2, 2015.The exhibition, curated jointly…

The wildfires that burned in and around Bastrop in 2011 destroyed thousands of acres, homes, and businesses. Litigation around this disaster and funds gathered since then are resulting in a planned Lost…

In conjunction with The Black Guys: Robert Hodge and Phillip Pyle the Second, currently on view at Art League Houston (ALH) through January 3, Hodge and Pyle staged an interpretive…

This is timely. The Museum of East Texas in Lufkin, in conjunction with its current exhibition Citizens At Last: The Women Suffrage Movement in Texas, will host a panel discussion…

The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) may not be inspiring a lot of confidence within the local arts scene as of late, but they’re now looking elsewhere to make new friends.…

The Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens is a satellite collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Bradley C. Brooks is its new curator. Bayou Bend Collection, which is 14 acres…

As usual, the Hunting Art Prize folks have announced this year’s jury shortly after the deadline for submissions (which was November 30), so that entrants wouldn’t waste time trying to…

The big annual student expo at 500X in Dallas is often one of the best places to see, under one roof, what Texas art undergrad and grad students are getting…

Jed Perl recently quit his job as art critic of The New Republic, and his elegant resignation has been getting reposted in Twitter and Facebook in the last couple of…

The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth has announced a four-month renovation project, designed to improve the museum’s climate control. New windows and air conditioning will make the art last…

Both San Antonio and El Paso announced instructions and deadlines for established and emerging artists to pre-qualify for consideration for the next few years’ worth of their public art projects . The…

The Contemporary in Austin–all three of its locations–will play host to the first-ever institutional show of Tom Sachs works in Texas. Beginning in January, Boombox Retrospective 1999-2015 will spread out…

Recently, the national news has been overflowing with stories of African-American men (and boys) killed by police officers and the ensuing frustration at the lack of accountability for the deaths.…

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth is going to start renovations on its facade in early February and construction is expected to take about five months. The museum has…

In the midst of all the HAA public art controversy, the Houston arts community may not have noticed a more private art addition to the city. Art League Houston (ALH)…

Mark Flood will have a mighty presence during this week’s giant international art shenanigan, Art Basel Miami Beach, which opens to the public Dec. 4. His work will not only show up…

After a two-year battle with cancer, artist Melesio “Mel” Casas died at home on Sunday. Grace Casas, his wife of 35 years, told the San Antonio Express-News that he was…

A new film and video showcase organized by the Video Association of Dallas, called the Dallas Medianale, will launch at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas on Jan. 9 and run on…

There are usually a few unexpected gems to be found in sleepy summer gallery group shows and, as the holiday season descends, there are endless group shows of “affordable” art…

Art From the Streets is a 22-year-old non-profit outfit in Austin that provides art studio time to Austin’s homeless throughout the year, and in December holds an annual show and…