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…

The El Paso Downtown Arts District has been officially recognized by the Texas commission on the Arts; the Director and Deputy Director will perform a designation ceremony on Friday, Oct.…

David Coleman, Ph.D. was appointed as the new Director of The Wittliff Collections at the Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos. Coleman was chief curator for photography at UT’s Harry…

Upon arriving at the Angelika Theater on Thursday evening for the Dallas Video Festival, I immediately noticed that I was a tad underdressed in my jeans and sandals. Surrounded by…

Perhaps Luis Jimenez’s most famous work, Vaquero, is riding into the sunset. On loan from collector and fiberglass fabricator Frank Ribelin, the monumental fiberglass statue of a pistol-packing cowboy has…

There is always way more worthy art on view in the Great State of Texas than any one publication could ever cover. But with the goal of reviewing more shows,…

The second annual CounterCrawl prepares to collect un-gallery art, a lot of musical performances and an ever-increasing mob to a cityscape that may, at last, not be uninhabitably hot. This…