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Via the Dallas Morning News: SMU’s Meadows Museum has announced that next year it will show a singularly impressive collection never before exhibited outside of Spain. In what will be…

After picking up student artwork from a Glassell School of Art exhibition, long-time Aldine ISD art educator Joseph Doyle was leaving the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) yesterday morning…

The Galveston Arts Center, still in the midst of a years-long capital campaign for renovating its original building, has hired Elliot Lessing as interim director, and in his few weeks…

It was pretty exciting when the Museum of Drawing (MOD) announced its arrival into Houston’s art scene a few years ago. It seemed as if they were just a grant…

After months of art community protest (and in the wake of the Rice Art Barn demolition) it looks like the administration at University of Texas at Dallas has stayed the…

Randy Tibbits thinks we should all know a bit more about the rich history of Houston’s art scene. Those who read his Houston Press article, “MFAH and the Menil Are…

The five-acre area behind the AT&T Performing Arts Center in the Dallas Arts District is being developed by Craig Hall, a DFW-based developer who is married to Kathryn Hall, the…

Abstract painters and conceptual artists: beware! The Masters of Representational Art (yes, that’s the name of the group) have been meeting up once a month to eat pizza and strategize…

Google has begun removing links to websites in Europe, complying with a May European Court of Justice ruling that individuals have the “right to be forgotten” and may request the…

Art League Houston has announced that the City of Houston has authorized an ordinance that will allow Patrick Renner‘s Funnel Tunnel to remain on the median of Montrose Blvd. through…

The Texas Contemporary Art Fair has announced some of its growing exhibitor list for 2014, which will be in its fourth season this September at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention…

Overnight in Houston security guards at Chase Tower downtown stopped some well-dressed thieves from stealing a painting hanging in one of the common areas of the building. The men dressed…

If a man’s art collection is a window to his soul, then one that recently hit the auction block in Houston leaves us scratching our heads. It turns out that…

On July 1, artist and SMU advertising professor Willie Baronet began a month-long journey, from Seattle to New York, purchasing signs from homeless people. Baronet has been collecting these signs…

Via the San Antonio Express-News: a public art sculpture designed and built by a UTSA students has partially collapsed in its park location, either from wind, or being climbed on.…

It’s not really true that everything is bigger in Texas, but those who catch tomorrow night’s Arts InSight on Houston Public Media (TV 8) will be left with the impression…

Late last week MOCAtv, a web channel devoted to the goings on at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, posted a short but excellent video featuring artist Michael Smith…

On June 17, Fredericksburg Mayor Linda Langerhans proclaimed an annual “Charles Beckendorf Day” in honor of the renowned wildlife artist who helped put that Hill Country town on the map.…

If you want to see how the one of the great art collecting families of Texas used to roll, mark next spring on your calendar. On Friday the Kimbell Art…

In celebration of his upcoming bricks-and mortar art show at Andy Howell’s The Shape of Things Art Gallery and Shop in Houston (wedged into a strip center on Westheimer between…