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The stretch of 100-year-old empty storefront spaces in Dallas where artists Justin Ginsberg and Jeff Gibbons staged their pop-up art installation programming for two seasons in 2013-14, called Deep Ellum…

The Galveston Arts Center (GAC) seems to be having a rough time. After a period with no director and no curator (long-time supercurator Clint Willour is still on medical leave),…

Houston Mayor Annise Parker has named philanthropist Philamena Baird and Project Row Houses Founder Rick Lowe as co-chairs of the Cultural Plan for the City of Houston, a 2-year initiative…

The Lawndale Artist Studio Program has selected Josh Bernstein, JooYoung Choi and Lina Dib as their ninth round of artists in residence. The program will provide these artists with  studio…

The Tyler Museum of Art is celebrating four decades of collecting and showcasing the work of Texas artists in “Contemporary Texas: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” an exhibition that opens…

New works by six El Paso artists that have been funded by the City of El Paso’s Artist Incubator Program, will debut at various El Paso venues in the next…

Today the Dallas Museum of Art announced what will be its first show curated by the new Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Gavin Delahunty. Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots will open…

On September 13, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will open an exhibition entitled State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, dubbed by the New York Times as…

Via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: The City of Fort Worth redirected some of its 2014 bond money from art into transportation, so its Public Art Commission is dealing with this…

If you haven’t yet seen The Big Show—Lawndale Art Center’s annual open-call, juried exhibition, you have until August 9th to spend some time with the whopping 115 works by 106…

We’re closing in on the opening day of Art Everywhere, the nation-wide public art initiative (modeled after a successful UK program of the same name) that will put the images…

Artist James Turrell received the 2013 National Medal of Arts from President Obama during a White House ceremony on Monday. The Houston Chronicle referred to the light artist as a…

In what seems like a completely appropriate move, the highly respected Public Relations Society of America and other national organizations have recently handed the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas seven different…

Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (TALA) will offer a one-on-one legal clinic for artists and arts-related organizations tomorrow evening at Houston’s Fresh Arts. Legal advice is absolutely free…

Dallas arts patron Edith O’Donnell has made a $17 million contribution to UT Dallas to create the new Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History. “UT Dallas excels in science and…

The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth has announced the the acquisition of Peaches and Grapes in a Chinese Export Basket (1813) by Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825). Though they have works…

Three-year-old Lab Art, a Los Angeles gallery dedicated to street art and graffiti, is opening a second space in the Dallas Design District in September. Founder Iskander Lemseffer, whose background…

As the second of its public “art on the esplanade” pieces, the Art League Houston has commissioned Houston artist Selven O’Keef Jarmon’s piece 360 Degrees Vanishing, a set of curtainlike…

El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain has been called the best restaurant in the world; the wait list is notorious and you’re looking at a year to get…

Now that Glasstire editor Bill Davenport and publisher Rainey Knudson released this week’s Top 5 countdown on video, it seems everyone wants to jump on the YouTube bandwagon to chat…