The Texas Contemporary art fair will officially begin with a $100-a-ticket preview party on Thursday, October 20 from 6 – 7:30 p.m., with proceeds earmarked for the Contemporary Arts Museum…

Ex-Texan Color Field Painter Stephen Mueller died in New York on September 16. The 63 year old artist grew up in Dallas, and got a BFA from UT before moving…

Aether, a new semi-annual Austin-based e-magazine that aims to engage collectors, artists, and galleries in conversation about the visual arts launched last week. The magazine is a collaboration between Rachel…

Former Menil chief conservator Carol Mancusi-Ungaro began interviewing artists, in the presence of their works of art in 1990, recording their attitudes and feelings toward the works’ conservation and exhibition.…

Over the summer, Dallas Nasher Sculpture Center has acquired it’s first taste of Texas art: gifts of significant pieces by pioneering Texas found-object assemblers Jim Love and David McMananway. Love’s…

“I’m living the dream.” This phrase (which is usually uttered with more than a hint of sarcasm by a person of privilege) refers to the idea that everyone regardless of…

Emerging artists Sapphire Williams, Gisette Padilla and Nancy Douthey will each recieve $1,000 Liz Alexander Visual Art Awards from the Houston Arts Alliance, to be used for a specific artistic…

This evening, Thursday, October 13, sculptor Janine Antoni will be delivering the first of this season’s Core Program Lectures at the Glassell School’s Freed Auditorium at 7pm. Antoni achieved instant…

Glasstire has lots of fun opportunities to vomit voice your opinions about art. It’s set up to be interactive. However, for a number of reasons, it’s not often that I…

Austin ceramist Ginger Geyer is the next artist in resdience at the The Fairmont Dallas hotel.  Geyer will be living and working on-site at the hotel through December 31, 2011.…

The first print issue of Austin-based image magazine Pastelegram is launching with a party at Domy Books, Austin, on Thursday, Oct. 13 from 6-8p.m. Each issue of the biannual “artwork-as-magazine”…

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has begun its switch to energy-saving LED lamps, installing 150 Toshiba A19’s in its  Pre-Columbian Gallery and the exterior and lobby of its Caroline…

  Chalk the Block, the family-friendy art event that attracted 25,000 to downtown El Paso last year is on a collision course with Occupy El Paso, one of many loosely…

Meet enviro-artist Mark Dion and study the Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s new invasive-plant deathmobile at a launch party for the Buffalo Bayou Invasive Plant Eradication Unit, a taco truck refitted to…

The archive of photographer Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928), which includes more than 50,000 signed photographic prints, will be housed at UT’s Ransom Center in Austin. Spanning more than six decades…