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The Bowdon Family Foundation,  known for supporting visual art in the Dallas area, has purchased a 40,000 square-foot building built in 1921 in the emergent Cedars neighborhood, and have ambitious plans for…

For Houston artist Sally Glass, Tinder is over. She’s “so bored, in fact, that I’d rather make a funny archival project than find a life partner through a smartphone app,”…

It is upon us. The big Belo Collection auction takes place at Heritage Auctions in Dallas this Saturday. A.H. Belo Corporation, the parent company of the Dallas Morning News, has collected…

At the opening of Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s CraftTexas 2014, the eighth in a series of biennial juried exhibitions showcasing the best in Texas-made contemporary craft, the exhibition jurors…

If you live in Dallas and you care about whether the city is prepared to take care of the public art work it commissions (instead of say, abandoning it to…

After almost 30 years, Houston’s Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP) is moving out of its physical location at 1519 West Main and into a “virtual office” (Mary Lampe’s living room?).…

The Houston Arts Alliance will be hosting a visit and talk by the new National Endowment For the Arts chairperson Jane Chu tomorrow at the Asia Society. This is Chu’s…

Although Glasstire reported that Darryl Lauster was the lone Texan shortlisted for the ArtPrize (the international art competition based in Grand Rapids, Michigan), we are also going to claim the…

I may be jumping the gun a tad, but not by much. Some little Facebook birds let on over the weekend,  possibly inadvertently but nonetheless clearly, that Leigh Arnold has…

Ultra-rich former NYC mayor Michael (he’s “Mike” on all his websites) Bloomberg’s charitable foundation has announced a “Public Art Challenge” today, inviting U.S. cities to develop temporary public art projects…

The United States Tax Court ruled earlier this month that artists who make little or no money from the sales of their artworks and support themselves through teaching can continue…

On Friday, The Dallas Museum of Art announced a pack of staff appointments: Brenda Berry has been named its new Chief Financial Officer, responsible for all accounting, financial operations, and…

Artnet asks: “Who are the Henry Clay Fricks, J.P. Morgans, or Andrew Carnegies of our era?” In Texas, I would likely point to the de Menils and the Nashers, but…

Grace Ndiritu, Dan Schmahl, and Hilary Wilder have been named 2014 – 2015 Artists in Residence at the Galveston Artist Residency. Ndiritu is a British/Kenyan artist whose performances, writing and…

It’s probably a sign of its funky aesthetic that the folks at Houston’s new Smither Park will put on a party at the drop of a hat (“We thought of…

FotoFest is gearing up for its 16th Biennial in spring of 2016 and today it announced this installment’s title and theme: “CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES: Looking at the Future of the Planet.”…

Chinati Weekend is coming! From 5-10pm on Friday evening, studios and galleries in downtown Marfa will be open with exhibitions and performances. On Saturday, there will be a big reception…

After a five-month stint at the National Geographic Museum in Washington D.C., an impressive show of Peruvian, Pre-Inca artifacts has traveled to the Irving Arts Center, which will be its only…

After spending 21 months in prison for his spraycan stunt at the Menil Collection, Uriel Landeros recently granted an interview with blogger Chris Tarango, which has been getting passed around…

A.L. Steiner–member of Chicks on Speed, co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), and otherwise noteworthy multi-media artist superstar–will be on hand to speak about her work at SMU…