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There is now less than a week to come up with the most brilliant name for the soon-to-be-built café in the Menil Collection’s “neighborhood of art.” For those who would…

In a refocused effort to reduce the federal budget deficit, legislators in both parties have apparently proposed changes to the charitable tax deduction, which some say could cost nonprofits $9…

Playboy Marfa, which was quickly installed this summer just outside of Marfa and almost as quickly received removal orders from Texas Department of Transportation (TxDot), will be moving down the…

Last week, Peruvian actor and environmental activist Richard Torres married a tree in Buenos Aires, Argentina, reports the Huffington Post. As part of Torres’s attempt to spread environmental awareness across…

There is a new group for Dallas folks who would like to get a bit art smarter in a friendly setting: art as social wormhole. Billed as an “artificial M.F.A.”…

The Houston Art Alliance (HAA) will present  an installation of suspended, sculptural works by the late Lee Littlefield at the Central Houston Public Library’s first floor gallery. Is that near…

It’s been over a decade since a metal plate fell off the wall of a County Records building in Dallas, exposing the remnants of a “White Only” sign over a…

“The art industry is booming,” says U.S. News & World Report, “as proved by record-breaking bidding wars at auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s this week.” On Tuesday, Francis Bacon’s 1967…

  The Harry Ransom Center (HRC) has announced that it has acquired the archives of artist Ed Ruscha. After the materials are cataloged in the museum and research library at…

Sam Z. Coronado, co-founder of Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum and founder of Serie Project, died on Monday at the age of 67 from complications after a stroke. Coronado was in Indiana,…

The 2013 11th Annual Lone Star EMMY Awards were held in San Antonio this past weekend, and HoustonPBS won several awards, including a big one in the Arts/Entertainment category, “Best…

If you missed the Christies live auction-watch at Houston’s Peveto art management company/gallery tonight, you can still make tomorrow night’s Sotheby’s party. Scott Peveto says they’ve been hosting the live…

An expected 3,500 entomologists are swarming the Austin Convention Center this week for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). While it may include the usual…

The founders of the Dia Art Foundation have filed suit to stop the foundation from selling artworks in Dia’s collection. Heiner Friedrich and Fariha Friedrich (formerly Philippa de Menil), who…

Everyone should have seen the Gaga/Koons collaboration coming from miles away, but now it’s official. Last night, Lady Gaga and Jeff Koons hosted an “ArtRave” extravaganza party, showing work by…

Northern-Southern (at 1800 Koenig Lane) will hosts it inaugural exhibition, LUCK, this Friday, November 15, from 6-10 pm. Northern-Southern isn’t exactly a new gallery; it’s a new design consultancy firm…

For 21 years now, Art from the Streets has been holding open studio art sessions for Austin’s homeless community. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at St. David’s Trinity Center in…

Houston arts folks are still reeling from the news that most of the on-air staff at classical radio station KUHA-FM was laid off Thursday morning. The Dallas Morning News called it “bad…

As “a major supporter of the arts for the past 25 years,” Beck’s Beer has been presenting the Beck’s Art Labels project (reported here this summer because Austin artist William…

In conjunction with the exhibition Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, the Blaffer Art Museum will present “Sunday Soup: Houston” at The Brandon on Sunday, November 24, from 4-7 pm.…