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The Moss/Chumley Award has been handed out to an “outstanding” North Texas artist since 1995 and the Meadows Museum at SMU is accepting applications through Monday, November 4 for this…

The University of Texas at Austin will host an opening party for a temporary installation called Social Helium this afternoon from 2-4 pm at the West Mall Fountain. Its creators,…

This weekend, the Dallas Cowboys have added the first outdoor sculpture to its art collection at AT&T Stadium, which now includes 56 works of art, including 13 commissioned pieces. The…

Portland-born, Brooklyn-based Keegan McHargue, whose colorful semi-figurative paintings are on view at the booth of Fredericks & Freiser, has been announced as the winner of the 2013 TX Contemporary Award.…

The were hordes of visitors celebrating at Thursday’s opening night party for the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, but it was during the quieter afternoon on Friday when a fairgoer, reportedly…

Reviews of the Basquiat-adorned sneakers coming out in Reebok’s 2013 Fall/Winter Collection have been popping up recently in some art websites and blogs, such as Blouin Artinfo and Arrested Motion,…

The unique Marfa art experience and the weekend’s party atmosphere don’t translate via computer screen, but Saturday’s lectures at the Crowley Theater in downtown Marfa might. Video of the lectures…

Houston’s Menil Collection today unveiled plans for the first phase of the renovation of its 30-acre campus. In June, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates was announced as the landscape architecture firm…

The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University now has its sixth work by Francisco Goya, the newest one an important late oil painting by the Spanish Romantic master, a portrait…

The Chinati Foundation released an odd statement today that it was “proud to announce” that it has been selected for inclusion on the 2014 Worlds Monument Watch list. Since 1996,…

This Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm, San Antonio’s Artpace will host its 10th annual Chalk It Up festival, where contemporary artists, novices, and kids all work together to…

It’s art fair time (again)! This weekend, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair will take over the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, and it all kicks off with a…

A large sculptural installation by San Antonio/New York artist Franco Mondini-Ruiz has recently been acquired for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The work…

After Friday’s report of a federal terrorism task force descending on the Houston area homes of Houston art appraiser/art supporter Cecily E. Horton and her husband Andrew E. Schneck, FBI…

Slant, a new Dallas Midtown artist collective at Valley View, is holding an open call for a group exhibition entitled Contained. In the call for entries for the juried show,…

Mark Larsen, founder of the Artery has announced that the space will soon be closing after 26 years. The inner-city environmental art/performance space “is magic because of the abundant foliage…

A billboard placed in Houston’s Dupree Park in the Third Ward has provoked a counter-billboard. The original billboard promotes the Menil Collection’s current exhibition Nice. Luc Tuymans, with one of…

Various departments of the FBI (including the Hazardous Materials Response Team), the Houston Police Department, and the Houston Fire Department entered two homes today with a warrant search. One house…

There seems to be a recent surge in exhibitions, programs and artists dealing with community engagement and political activism. Now, the politically active Holocaust Museum Houston is bringing artist Alfredo…

Project Row Houses (PRH) is celebrating its twentieth anniversary with a block party this Saturday from 11 am-7 pm. Okay, it will be more than a block and Saturday is…