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Samuel S. Holland has been named dean of Meadows School of the Arts at SMU. He also will hold the school’s Algur H. Meadows Chair. Holland has provided strong leadership…

Jim Campbell’s “Scattered Light” installation, originally commissioned for Madison Square Park in NYC in 2010, is coming to the outdoor garden at Northpark Center in Dallas. NorthPark’s manicured CenterPark Garden will…

The Mellon Foundation has announced its inaugural class of fellows in the Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program, which provides specialized training in the curatorial field for undergraduate students…

Among the 50+ programs and celebrity events happening this weekend at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF) is a quiet, short film directed by Houston native Tim Guinee. A 27-minute…

On November 7, A little more than a week before his trial was set to begin in the 394th District Court of Jeff Davis County, Prada Marfa vandal Joe Magnano…

Anthony Byrt, Auckland-based arts writer and ArtForum contributor, spent 2013 as the Critical Studies Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art just outside Detroit and also wrote a book about globalization’s…

Dallas-based non-profit outfit Art Conspiracy, which calls itself “street-level philanthropy,” will hold Art Con X this Saturday night starting at 7 p.m. This is the tenth anniversary of what is a…

First Lady Michelle Obama presented the 2014 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award to students representing 13 after-school programs yesterday, including Workshop Houston. First presented in 1998, the award…

Peter Plagens, artist and longtime art critic for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Art in America and ArtForum, also happened to be Bruce Nauman’s studio neighbor in Pasadena throughout the ’70s,…

The Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF) is returning with its usual explosion of films, lectures, and performances. This year, HCAF will present 50 programs in five days (November 12-16), plus…

Houston Mayor Annise Parker will be at Winston’s on Washington Ave. in Houston to unveil new parking meters designed by local artist Troy Stanley this weekend. On Monday, November 10…

Houston Community College Southeast is looking for an art appreciation adjunct with a good Idea to take part in their Spring 2015 Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, which aims to make higher…

UTEP’s Rubin Center has partnered with LA’s Machine Project to create Cuadro, a temporary art laboratory at 210 N Stanton St., in a storefront space of the O.T. Bassett Tower…

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is participating in the 25th anniversary year of Visual AIDS Day/ A Day With(out) Art by screening a new series of short films…

The Flinching Eye Collective (F.E.C.), a group of seven interdisciplinary media artists, is blasting through Texas beginning tonight. What they call “The Aberration Tour” starts in Austin at the Salvage…

The Dallas Museum of Art, as part of its Arts & Letters Live Series, and the Nasher Sculpture Center, through its 360 Speaker Series, team up to host author and art-world vivisector Sarah…

On Thursday evening at 7pm, on the show Arts InSight, Houston Public Media will feature Baytown artist Ken “The Dauber” Pridgeon, who is attempting to paint portraits of every Texan…

The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is in its second year of hosting an artist-in-residence program, called The Artist’s Garden, and on Saturday, November 8 at 11.30 a.m. it will…

In 2008, the mayor of San Antonio initiated Luminaria as an annual one-night downtown arts celebration, focusing primarily on showcasing the works of San Antonio artists. Since then, it has…

Southern Methodist University’s Meadows Museum is going to move the date of its recently and breathlessly announced House of Alba Collection show, which was going to open next spring, so…