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More than 300 sites in nearly every state will ring their bells at 3 pm today (either local time or EDT), the hour when Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his…

The MacArthur Foundation has just announced that it will increase to $625,000 (from $500,000) the stipend given to winners of its fellows program. Since 1981, the program has awarded 873…

The Nasher Sculpture Center announced its ninth of ten projects to be commissioned for the Nasher XChange exhibition coming this fall in celebration of its tenth anniversary. The project by…

Those mourning the final loss of any remnant of Hannah Montana (as in Doc-Martins-stomping-out-a-cigarette final loss, as in the-wood-chipper-getting-rid-of-all-the-evidence final loss) may have missed the real newsworthy appearance in the…

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has announced its Fall lecture series, packing every single Tuesday evening with speakers. Most of the series is in conjunction with the upcoming…

The University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Art Gallery is bringing together Texas comic book artists together for a one-day symposium, comiCulture: From Creation to Consumption, on Saturday, September 21. The event…

There are those who would like to learn more about Latin American art and then there are those who would like to give it all a big old bear hug.…

Remember when James Franco was coming to the University of Houston’s doctoral program in creative writing? It seemed absurdly silly, but a little bit cool, and so it was disappointing…

As if anyone needs to be reminded of the temperature, the Aurora Picture Show has titled its screening of short films and videos “Houston Is So Hot!” Or maybe the…

With its first unveiling in June of this year, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center launched its ARTboard program, putting up art billboards in the “spirit of keeping art accessible, approachable,…

Margo Sawyer has won the CoD+A (Collaboration of Design+Art) Award for best residential art installation (with project partners Lawrence W. Speck, architect, and Wendy Dunnam Tita, interior designer). The first…

Kimberly L. Jones has been appointed Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art, announced today by Director Maxwell L. Anderson. Dr. Jones will…

In anticipation of the Nasher Sculpture Center’s exhibition of Nasher XChange, which is set to open in mid-October, the museum has been releasing details of each project one at a…

There have been a few incredible photos of what is now called the “Cistern” floating around this past year, but next week the Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) and Architecture Center…

Those who may suspect that the artists chosen for the 2013 Texas Biennial might just be flukes can check out two exhibitions this weekend to decide if past participants have…

A giant human eyeball has arrived in downtown Dallas to be installed across the street from The Joule Hotel, whose impressive contemporary artwork collection was featured a couple months ago…

Those who attended last week’s sold out Adult Lego Workshop at Houston’s Aurora Picture Show have mastered the art of stop-motion animation, with the help of the provided LEGOs and…

The Commerce Street Artists Warehouse (CSAW), the legendary Houston art space, is attempting to collect some local art history by holding a recording session at the Art League on Tuesday,…

Robert Hodge, and Phillip Pyle II will be taking part in the final performance of the Coming Through the Gap in the Mountain on an Elephant exhibition at the University…

The Nasher Sculpture Center announced the seventh project to be a part of Nasher XChange, a citywide, museum-organized public art exhibition in celebration of the Nasher’s 10th anniversary. The official…