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Houston artist Ed Wilson has released pictures of his proposal for the George R. Brown convention Center in Houston. The 90 x 90 x 40 foot atrium will be filled…

Happy Thanksgiving! There’s still time to get downtown to catch the 65th Annual H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade, which starts at 9am and goes on until noon (parade route here). Among…

Daniel Johnston, one of Austin’s most insider outsider artist/musician/personalities, has designed a new mural which will be unveiled on Monday, December 1 at Nau’s Enfield Drug in West-Central Austin. The outside…

For the third installment in a series of globe-trotting portfolios shot for W Magazine, humanoid space alien/Orlando/wonder woman Tilda Swinton descended on The Menil Collection in Houston a couple of months…

The Houston Arts Alliance has released an official statement on their sudden change of heart about awarding high-profile commission to Houston Artist Ed Wilson: Houston Arts Alliance Statement The review…

Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas held its first CADDFUNd Competition on Nov. 16, and the winner of the contest was a University of North Texas MFA named Julie Libersat. CADD…

In honor of Houston artist Wendy Wagner, who lost her two-year battle against brain cancer a couple of months ago, a foundation for artists has been established. The Foundation’s website…

In their new exhibition series, “Crossing Lines: Contemporary Art From Coast To Coast” the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana is looking to showcase art from “all corners of…

As part of an initiative by still-new Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Gavin Delahunty, the DMA plans to originate more exhibitions of underrepresented artists, and in early 2015 the museum will…

ArtPrize, the high-profile organization and event founded by web entrepreneur Rick DeVos and launched five years ago in Grand Rapids, Mich., is the contemporary art competition in which the public…

Good art shipping crates and travel frames are incredibly expensive to have made by professional art handling services; they’re bulky, made to stand up to rough shipping conditions, and can be…

Sarah Schultz, former Curator of Public Practice and Director of Education at the Walker Art Center (WAC), will be speaking tonight at 7pm at the Arthouse at the Jones Center.…

StoryCorps is a national non-profit that uses a “MobileBooth”–an airsteam trailer decked out with a recording studio– to make stops in cities across the country in order to record citizens’…

After all this week’s departure news (Annette Carlozzi leaving the Blanton; Amada Cruz leaving Artpace; and Hills Snyder leaving Sala Diaz), here’s another: former Texan Don Bacigalupi is leaving Crystal…

Annette Carlozzi, longtime curator at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin, is retiring in December after 18 years on the job. For the Blanton Carlozzi has…

This past spring, it was announced that Maura Reilly was leaving as director of San Antonio’s Linda Pace Foundation after less than two years on the job joining the organization…

The latest round of record-breaking NYC auctions on November 12 set a new high (source posted the wrong pic) for Marfa/New York-based Jeff Elrod, painter of digital-abstract scribbles. His 2014 painting…

For the 9th year in a row, Houston’s Fresh Arts is organizing the Winter Holiday Art Market (WHAM), which will take place this weekend. WHAM offers a wide variety of…

As of January 1, 2015, Anjali Gupta will be the new Director of San Antonio art space Sala Diaz, taking over from Hills Snyder, who has held the position since…

Robert Irwin’s Park Portal Piece (Slice), installed in 1981 in Dallas’ John Carpenter Plaza, which was slated for removal when street re-routing permanently changed its site, may be re-installed after…