The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is celebrating its centennial and UTEP’s Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts is turning ten, so the Ruben is…
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The acclaimed Tuesday Evenings at the Modern Lecture Series at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is starting its new season on September 27. This first installment pertains to…
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There has been increasing criticism of unpaid internships (read “Reliance on unpaid volunteers is turning public museums into a middle class commodity” or “British Museum Wants Someone to Update Its…
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FINALLY! We’re launching a handy new guide to tell you what art events are opening in your city, every week!!! Tomorrow we’re sending out the first editions of this…
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After a whole two and a half months of making what NYMag.com calls “neon stoner-meets-summer-camper collages and jewelry,” Miley Cyrus will be exhibiting her work in an exhibition called Dirty…
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In case you didn’t already know about this: Each year the Texas Commission on the Arts chooses two artists (one 2-D, one 3-D) to represent the state, sort of like…
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After 65 years of Houston’s traditional Foley’s (later Macy’s) Thanksgiving Day Parade, organizers abruptly called it quits last year, but the Mayor’s Office of Special Events quickly found a new…
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In keeping with it’s policy of “Corporate Social Responsibility,” Bank of America has given the Dallas Museum of Art funds to restore a gem-studded silver display case the museum acquired…
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art made cyber-news recently when Hyperallergic announced that they were the first museum to join Snapchat. A handful of other museums chimed in that…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art became the last of the major New York museums to jump on the dedicated-app wagon. While the museum has been dabbling in digital for a…
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Today marks the beginning of this year’s Texas Contemporary art fair at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center. For the fancy folks who shell out $100 for a preview pass,…
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Texas artists who own any land in the state might be interested to know how a Canadian artist has handled the pesky oil, natural gas, and pipeline companies that want…
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There’s still time to catch “Art in the Garden” at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, the annual collaboration with Blue Star Contemporary, since it’s on view through the end of…
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Yesterday, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston announced that it has installed on its South Lawn a new acquisition, Albero folgorato (Lightning Tree), by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. The installation…
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Houstonians are eagerly awaiting the late October presentation of Selven O’Keef Jarmon’s piece 360 Degrees Vanishing, commissioned by Art League Houston (ALH). It’s set to be as big of a…
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Goldsmiths MFA grad and Dallas native Hanh Ho is opening up a new gallery in the Design District and she’s calling it Cydonia*. The first exhibition is a group show…
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On Wednesday at 3pm, Dr. Mark Thistlethwaite, the Kay and Velma Kimbell Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University, will present a lecture entitled “Water Matters in American Art”…
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While excavating, a farmer in Ellis County hit the tusk of a mammoth buried on his land; further investigation by the pros have unearthed a nearly complete and intact female Columbian…
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Beginning September 1, Houston’s fast-revitalizing East End will host “Transported and Renewed” a two-month series of art projects organized by Houston Arts Alliance. The East End is the city’s historic…
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For every new art season, KERA and the Dallas Museum of Art pair up to bring us the State of the Arts conversation series, with one of the evenings dedicated…