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Without mathematics there is no art. -Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (1445–1517), Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting. The…

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has announced that registration is now open for the 2014 Houston Art Car Parade. The May parade will mark the 27th year of…

Houston will soon have a new contemporary art gallery on Waugh Drive in Montrose called the Mariago Collective. While the use of the word “collective” does not seem to imply…

Speaking at a General Electric plant in Wisconsin today, President Obama encouraged young people to consider training programs for skilled manufacturing work. “I promise you, folks can make a lot…

Only a few months ago, San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art (SSA) announced that it had received accreditation to begin a bachelor of fine arts program next fall, so it…

The latest Texas art installation to live on through the magic of television is Thirst, the big tree that hovered above Austin’s Lady Bird Lake for several months, calling attention…

Insomniacs in the Dallas/Fort Worth area should be forewarned when watching late night infomercials. Those tuned into KTXA Channel 21 on Friday, February 7 at 3 am (known to many…

FotoFest has announced that it has named Steven Evans as its new executive director. This is more than the usual arts administrative appointment—the Houston-based organization’s international photography biennial has been…

San Antonio artist Stuart Allen has been selected to curate the art program of HemisFair Park’s future “PlayEscape” area, reports Benjamin Olivo of the San Antonio Express-News. Allen, who has…

Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum has named Mary Heathcott as its new executive director. Since 2012, Heathcott has been the Deputy Director at Artpace San Antonio. In 2011, Heathcott was…

The folks at Houston’s Fresh Arts present all sorts of helpful workshops for artists, but on Wednesday evening, they are just getting down to the basics of the creative life:…

Tomorrow evening, Monday, January 27th at 5:30 pm, the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) will host the “2014 Elected Officials Reception for the Arts” at the Hobby Center for Performing Arts.…

In addition to the ten public sculptures throughout Dallas, ambitiously commissioned by the Nasher Sculpture Center in celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Nasher has also announced that it received…

After recent bummer news posts about Austin street art, it’s nice to hear about SprATX, a positive collective of artists and muralists, as reported by Austin blogger Kit O’Connell. SprATX…

The Art League Houston and Fresh Arts will host an “Artist Town Hall Meeting” to discuss the needs of artists living and working in the Houston area. The meeting will…

Those who missed the fact that yesterday was “Museum Selfie Day” have probably also suppressed the memory of the announcement by Oxford Dictionaries at the end of 2013 that it…

The Lamar County Sheriff’s Department recently released a sketch of a robbery suspect and the UK’s Metro reprinted the drawing in its news section in order to propose that it…

It’s no secret that the people who work at museums have always been predominately white, but the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is now supporting a new initiative at five major…

Fans of Claude Monet’s The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset (1883) can now rest easy, knowing exactly when it was painted: February 5, 1883 at 4:53 pm local mean time (plus or…

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced that it has enrolled nearly 50,000 visitors in its DMA Friends membership program since its launch one year ago today. Touted as “the…