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Those in or near Longview this weekend can stop in at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts (LMFA) for its estate sale on Saturday. It will be an opportunity to…

For many young artists, the moment they notice that they are hanging out at the big craft chain stores more often than the regular art supply stores is when they…

Houston’s DiverseWorks states that its current exhibition The Eleventh Hour “traces a lineage of urgency and activism in DiverseWorks’ programming over the past 30 years.”  For those feel a sense…

There are a lot of institutions, programs, and people seriously affected in all sorts of ways by the government shutdown, which started today. Affecting the art world is the closing…

La Reunion TX (LRTX) is looking for students and mentors to participate in its 7th annual Art Chic@s program. LRTX, a non-profit organization in west Oak Cliff that “connects art…

A federal grand jury returned a 24-count indictment today against Jeffrey Shankman with bankruptcy fraud and concealment of assets. Shankman filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2008 and the indictment…

This Wednesday, the five-day 2013 Houston Fringe Festival will open up its experimental mixed bag of theater, dance, music, film, and visual arts. The 6th annual festival will take place…

Elmgreen and Dragset, the artist duo behind Prada Marfa, have released a statement with their thoughts on the Texas Department of Transportation’s decision to declare the installation illegal. There are…

The Leigh Bess Boone Foundation wants to know about your amazing interns. The Foundation, which awards stipends to outstanding interns and volunteers in the visual and performing arts, has extended…

Internationally renowned sculptor/printmaker Kiki Smith will come to Denton this fall as the artist-in-residence for the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2013-14…

Car culture is so big in Houston that the annual Art Car Parade is no longer quite enough to contain all the car enthusiasm in the city. Now, the Houston…

This weekend, Arlington will host its first annual South Street Art Festival, showcasing tons of artists. There will be the requisite array of food trucks, beer, and live music, but…

The State Fair of Texas begins tomorrow and, at 2 pm, the brand new Big Tex will be unveiled. The 52-foot tall sculpture that had been greeting fairgoers for 60…

Don’t say you’re faired out already, because the Texas Contemporary Art Fair is coming to town in just a few weeks (October 10-13), although without the smart, goofy, affordable, and…

Michelle Obama hosted a luncheon yesterday for about 50 spouses (meaning almost all women) of chiefs of state and heads of government, reports the Associated Press. The event took place…

While the Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) is busy transforming the 160-acre Buffalo Bayou Park (from Shepherd to Sabine), it is also beginning to think about what to do with the…

Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will honor artist Bill Viola with the 13th Annual Aurora Award at its annual fundraiser on October 5. The internationally recognized artist has been making videotapes,…

There’s been a whole lot of James Turrell love going on this summer, from The Light Inside at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (which closed on Sunday) to the…

The American Association of Museum Curators (AAMC) has announced that it is moving this spring’s national conference from Houston to Detroit in a show of support for the Detroit Institute…

A new round of artists have joined the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) for the 2013-2014 program. GAR was established to give intense studio time to emerging and established visual artists,…