The burgeoning trade in high tech, over-the-top homecoming mums– once flowers, but now mutated into 20-30 pound bling monsters of ribbons, plush toys, LED’s, have  been steadily growing in size…

The editorial board of the San Antonio Express-News griped Friday about the continuing mismanagement of the nascent Briscoe Western Art Museum, which was supposed to be another tourist magnet on…

Big yellow minimalism is in- The Museum of Fine Arts has announced the acquisition of Frank Stella’s Palmito Ranch (1961), which they got  at a discount from the artist, who…

Appropriately, next weekend, October 1 & 2, the Dallas Museum of Art is honoring retiring director Bonnie Pitman with a free admission weekend. Sometimes uncomfortably audience-centered for the elite funders who…

Cases such as the high profile merger between Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones Dance Company, which together became New York Live Arts, have inspired talk of an…

The Menil Collection announced yesterday that the frescoes on loan from the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus, displayed since 1997 at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel on the Menil campus, will…

Public Art San Antonio (PASA) as announced Downtown Storefronts, a new downtown public art exhibit, designed to invigorate vacant storefront properties with local art. After a pilot series of installations…

The Texas Commission the Arts is looking for promising young Texas artists for its Young Masters grant program. Students of all artistic disciplines who are in 8th-11th grade compete for…

Renoir’s Lemons and Tea Cup, a late mini-masterpiece of impressionist still life that has been on loan the the McNay since the 1960’s, has finally stuck; it’s now part of…

Houston artist Sharon Engelstein is turning the front room of her Montrose bungalow into a gallery: Front, as the new space is aptly called, will host its inaugural show on…

Kim Stoilis, who, as executive director of the Art Colony Association, produced record breaking editions of the venerable Bayou City Art Festival, has been named the new CEO of the…

Tune in tonight for For the Sake of the Song: the Story of Anderson Fair, episode seven of “The Territory”, the Southwest Alternative Media Project (SWAMP)’s documentary series on the…

Long-inheld breaths can be released with sighs of relief! Douglas Britt of the Houston Chronicle reports that the organizers of last weekend’s Houston Fine Art Fair were satisfied with the…

The McNay’s publication, Impressions, has stepped into the digital age: starting with the current Sept/December issue, the magazine is available for download as a .pdf for viewing on computers or…

Speaking of online magazines, NEA Art, the National Endowment for the Arts’ quarterly magazine is running a feature on Donald Judd’s Marfa, highlighting Judd Foundation, Chinati Foundation, and Ballroom, Marfa,…