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When you live in a big city it seems like more planes, with their blinking red lights, cross the sky at night than stars. City lights drown out space lights,…

This month’s Family Day at the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston is inspired by one of the most child-like artists working today, Trenton Doyle Hancock. I mean, the guy carries…

The San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio has commissioned French artist Xavier de Richemont to make a video art piece that tells the history of the community from pre-indigenous times…

The City of Austin announced today that it will open its first artist-led community garden, the North Austin Community Garden, this weekend as part of its Art in Public Places (AIPP)…

For 38 years, Gary Myrick has worked as a courtroom sketch-artist in Texas courts. He was the go-to guy for rendering the faces of defendents, judges and witnesses all over…

This weekend, North Texans will finally be able to see the work of art that as been described as “exceptional,” of “superior quality,”  “in near-perfect condition,” “impressively large,” and, most…

In an effort to memorialize the fading history of some of Dallas’ most blighted and significant neighborhoods, the Boone Family Foundation and the Rainwater Charitable Foundation are teaming up to…

Houston artist Bert Long’s Field of Vision, an array of sculptural eyeballs located next door the the Eldorado Ballroom at the corner of Elgin and Bastrop Streets, in Houston since…

Part two of Crossing the Line, an exchange project between Three Walls (San Antonio) and Centro Cultural Border (Mexico City) is slated to open in Mexico City this week on…

A bevy of Texas mothers is really proud this Mother’s Day: their kids are winners of the Texas State-Fish Art Contest, a project by Wildlife Forever which promotes wildlife conservation…

A senior at Round Rock High School, near Austin, a one Andrew Muennink, didn’t think he could handle taking his art history final because it “is supposed to be so…

A Russian artist, Irina Bogatcheva, a.k.a. Anastasia the Great, is being held in custody in Houston for failing to show up for a hearing regarding the bankruptcy case of former Houston…

The power pair that is Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Dallas Museum of Art Director Max Anderson are gearing up to host the New Cities Foundation Summit and launch the…

A couple years ago, there was a push in the Dallas City Council to create a public improvement district—a PID—that would go toward funding arts organizations, with funds coming from…

Houston’s Menil Collection announced today that Paul R. Davis will join the museum as Curator of Collections. Davis comes to Houston by way of Johannasburg, South Africa where he has been…

Grace Museum in Abilene will be the first pilot museum to implement the Friends program that the Dallas Museum of Art initiated in January 2013. Friends is a free program…

The biggest art competition in the world has opened its registration for applicants–ArtPrize is back for its sixth year! Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the annual competition brings art, good…

This week the Museum of Fine Arts Houston unveils the long awaited Houston Penetrable, an immersive installation by Venezuelan artist Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005) which has been a long time coming.…

As the Texas summer barrels down on us, Octavia Art Gallery has announced it will host a pop-up art show about the season, in collaboration with curator Alice Carrington Foultz, at the…

This just in: Dallas artist Winston Lee Mascarenhas has won the $50,000 2014 Hunting Prize! Mascarenhas’s painting Rite of Spring was selected from 115 finalists. Mascarenhas was born in Laredo,…