On Friday, the Dallas Museum of Art unveiled its new Dashboard website, offering the public access to real-time statistics on the Museum. They’re extensive, but not surprising, and laid out…

After twenty years as a mainstay of San Antonio’s Blue Star Art Complex, Joan Grona has announced that she will be closing her bricks and mortar gallery at the end…

120 artists participating in Fotofest’s meeting place portfolio reviews will  congregate at the Doubletree Hotel Downtown Houston this evening to meet (and sell a few prints to) the general public.…

  I first met Jill Magid in the Fall of 2006 when we team taught an interdisciplinary studio course for visual studies majors at the University of Pennsylvania. Over the…

This Saturday, a 5-hour marathon of improvised music will fill complement Dan Flavin’s sideshow lighting at the Menil’s Richmond Hall. Eighteen graduates of the Nameless Sound creative music education program…

The contents of the late Nancy Hamon’s Dallas Penthouse and her San Francisco apartment will be sold off in a four-day estate sale happening March 29 -April 1 at 1333…

Tyler Rudick of Houston’s Cuturemap reports on a bevy of international reporters in town for Fotofest, including “journalists from publications like The Economist, The Moscow Times and Die Zeit.” They…

Aerosol Warfare has been a Houston institution for over twenty years, and for much of that time, GONZO247 has been the engine driving the website and studios. GONZO247 and his…

Dallas Museum of Art Director Maxwell Anderson has named ex-Getty Museum conservator Mark Leonard as the Museum’s first Chief Conservator, signaling an expansion of the DMA’s conservation program, with more…

The Stark Museum of Art in Orange was named the Outstanding Arts and Humanities Organization for 2011 by the Southeast Texas Arts Council on Monday. The Council cited the Museum’s…

In what can only be described as a coup, the massive ceramics collection of New York dealers Garth Clark and Mark del Vecchio was acquired by the MFAH five years…

Apologising for the spate of recent obituaries, Robert Boyd has interesting bios of  gallerist Dianne David, patron Toni Beauchamp and artist Mark Aguhar, who represent three generations of Houston artworld…

Jeanne Clair Van Ryzin of the Austin American Statesman has a mini review of the Arts of Palm, a clever re-use of an abandoned public swimming pool as a one-night…

Ace art blogger Judith Dobrzynski penned a neat summary of how a dedicated acquisitions fund ups a collecting museum’s cachet and opportunities in last week’s NY Times.  Such funds are…

Did you know that the City of Katy has granted the Katy Culture & Arts Alliance  $6,059 to help support the town’s first biennial of photography, Fotofest Katy 2012? Scheduled…

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the MIT List Visual Arts Center are sharing a major award from the International Art Critics Association (AICA/USA) for their co-organized 2011 exhibition Stan…