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Dallas arts writer (and sometime Glasstire contributor) Darryl Ratcliff blogged yesterday for CentralTrak’s Canvassing that : “The Whole Arts World Is Totally Fucked. And Everyone’s Talking About Arts Criticism?” Responding…

To accompany its current exhibition “Postcards from the Trenches” (which looks like a good one), the Printing Museum in Houston is launching a lecture series which begins this evening at 7 p.m.,…

Gulf Coast Magazine has put together a “conversation,” which will take place tonight at 7pm in Houston’s El Dorado Ballroom. They have lined up two authors (Jennifer Scappettone and Ilya…

As mentioned in this space the week before last, the auctioning off of Belo Corporation’s art collection on Oct. 18 in Dallas was sure to be a big success, and…

If you’re not one of those people who stay in, turn off the porch light and pretend you’re not home when the doorbell rings, you might still be looking for…

The big splashy TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Gala has been one of the biggest art events in Dallas for sixteen years. Held at Howard and Cindy Rachofsky’s…

The interns over at the Huffington Post who dig through the Internet have discovered a Kickstarter campaign called “Texas Women.” A young Austin artist named Chloe (c’mon, let us know…

Sadness all around. Tracy Hicks, beloved Texas artist who was Dallas-based until a few years ago, died of a heart attack on Friday. He was an active and vocal member…

Please choose “1” or “2” from each section: Johnny Quest The Jetsons Architecture Animation Aged Parmesan Kraft Singles Longing Pleasure Quotation: “Spiritual practice can provide a conversation about ethics that…

Interactive technology is the new museum arms race, and the Blanton Museum in Austin has appointed museum-tech expert Koven Smith as to the new post of “Director of Digital Adaptation.”…

Texas Abstract: Modern/Contemporary, a new picture book featuring the works of 33 abstract painters working in Texas debuts today—in New Mexico! Published by SF Design / FrescoBooks out of Albequerque…

Mark Moore Gallery (Los Angeles), which represents the (mostly) Austin-based art collective Okay Mountain, has announced that the collective’s piece “Roadside Attractions” (2012) has been acquired by the Blanton Museum of…

DiverseWorks Artspace has announced that its director, Elizabeth Dunbar, will be leaving for a new job as Director of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY by the end…

Yesterday, Art and the Landscape published a new list of endangered national public artworks as part of its Landslide Project (launched 2003), and “focuses attention on threatened and at-risk landscapes…

The New Mexico Historic Preservation Division announced yesterday that the home and studio of artist Luis Jiménez are now listed in the State Register of Cultural Properties and forwarded for…

In a study released Monday tracking the movement of recent college graduates, which is considered an incredibly valuable demographic of course (and for our purposes also a generally art-friendly one),…

The Board of Directors of the Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (The MATCH) has announced that it has selected Chuck Still, currently the Executive Director of the Katharine Hepburn…

Only two weeks after the closing of Oscar de la Renta: Five Decades of Style at The George W. Bush Presidential Library on Dallas’ SMU campus, the legendary fashion designer…

Well this is awful. Susan Sollins, the still-young creator and executive director of the long-running and beloved PBS visual arts program ART21, died suddenly on October 13. Her cause of death…

While most people were sleeping last night, the National Report (“America’s #1 Independent News Source”!) released a story with the headline “Graffiti Artist Banksy Arrested In London; Identity Revealed.” The…