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Lawndale Art Center has announced Erin Elder, Artistic Director at Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts, as its 2014 juror of The Big Show, its annual open call exhibition. For…

There is a lot going on in Marfa this weekend: CineMarfa kicked off on Thursday and continues through the weekend, and Chinati hosts a talk, in partnership with CineMarfa between artist Zoe Leonard…

As we reported last month, the Dallas Museum of Art is part of what is being called the “biggest art show ever”–billboards emblazoned with famous works of art as selected…

Ever the prankish knave of the art market, Houston artist Mark Flood will put on his art-star jester suit next week and stage a five day art fair in Chelsea, the…

Next week, famed Texan author Larry McMurtry will saunter into Dallas to speak at the Dallas Museum of Art as part of Arts and Letters Live, where he will discuss his…

Ever wonder who is running this operation–this art-dedicated, intelligent, good-looking and sophisticated 13 year-old website, Glasstire? Ever wanted to have a real-life, not-in-the-comments-section conversation with someone that runs it? Well,…

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has announced the Houston Art Car Parade’s 2014 Grand Marshall: Houston Mayor Annise Parker. As the Grand Marshall of the parade, Mayor Parker will…

What a great combo: art/words/noise—the major genres of art-making all on the same plate. Such is the stuff of MenilFest, the annual, one-day festival that’s held on the Menil Collection’s…

The 25th Annual Map Fund Awards, which distributes grants to artists in the field of contemporary performance, has announced its 2014 recipients, including Houston artist Allison Orr, director of Forklift…

Lawrence Schovanec, Texas Tech provost, has announced that W. Brent Lindquist will be the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences beginning July 15. Lindquist comes to Lubbock by…

Artists are always looking for cheap retail space to mount shows on their own, outside of the gallery system. Typically, they scour the tangle of streets near cultural urban centers,…

Art on view during last weekend’s Sor Juana Festival in Austin shed the spotlight on the importance of art as a form of therapy and rehabilitation in prison. Now prison…

In response to the growing number of arts organizations in Houston in need of marketing support, Fresh Arts has developed a program that will help groom three select small organizations with the…

One of the major difficulties facing a Texas artist is getting your work out of Texas and into wider art world networks. Residencies are available all over the globe, true,…

Yesterday, Randy Tibbits of the Houston Press took the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Menil to task for failing to show Houston artists. Museum visitors to our city (and…

The artist behind the recent Prada Marfa vandalization, Joe Magnano, also known as 9271977, is scheduled to stand trial for his West Texas art antics next Friday, May 2, at…

In commemoration of the one year anniversary of the collapse of an eight story garment factory in Bangladesh, which killed 1134 workers and injured at least 2515, textile artists Monika…

In light of the recent demolition of Rice University’s Art Barn and the slated closure of UTD’s Art Barn, it seems fitting to celebrate an organization that imagines that cities…

Perhaps as proof of the enduring influence of Rice University’s Art Barn, which was torn down last week, University of Texas at Dallas art alums and advocates are in the throes…

Art League Houston has named Havel Ruck Projects (Dan Havel and Dean Ruck) for its Artists of the Year 2014 award and selected Stephanie Smither as its Patron of the…