The Insperity helium balloon, a popular attraction at Houston’s Discovery Green Park in 2009, sprung a leak in Chicago. So park program director Susanne Theis asked curator Clint Willour to…

Check out the new Amon Carter website: in addition to the usual exhibitions currently on view, the museum shop link, the event notices, and workshop sign-ups, there is a searchable…

Fred Adickes, brother af notorious Texas monumentalist David Adickes, died Sunday in Huntsville at age 80. The lesser-known (in Texas) Adickes was equally creative: he spent most of his career…

The first accounts of dissident Chinese artist Ai WeiWei’s detention on April 3 of this year are coming out. Reuters carried this story by Sui-Lee Wee detailing the intense pressure…

A $120,000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will enable the Chinati Foundation to enhance its education, public program, and outreach efforts to benefit Marfa…

From iconic illustrator of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine to purveyor of endless signature art products at shopping malls, Peter Max is popping up all over. He’ll be appearing in person…

Houston artist Patrick Palmer has been promoted to Faculty Chair/Dean of the Glassell School of Art Studio School and Art History department. Palmer, who has taught classes at the museum…

The Majestic Ranch Arts Foundation, housed on 500-acre ranch southwest of Boerne in the Texas Hill Country, is moving, and needs to de-accession furniture, art supplies, a printing press, books…

The latest update on the Texas Contemporary Art Fair  has an expanded list of participating galleries: New York galleries Gering & Lopez, Fredericks & Freiser, DCKT, Susan Inglett Gallery &…

Steven Thomson discusses Kristina Van Dyke’s move to the Pulitzer Foundation, the Menil’s role as a training ground for hot young curators, and the future of African art at the…

Recent UH graduate Abby Lee loves graffiti, and she’s got six twenty-foot walls in her Commerce St. Studio, all painted white or light gray. She’s holding a graffiti free for…

Blaffer Blastoff!, the blog that the UH university museum is using to replace this year’s programming as it undergoes massive renovation, is dangling a new iPad (with a picture of…

Artist Christian Cutler has been selected as the new Curatorial and Programs Coordinator at the Houston Center for Photography, replacing Jason Dibley, who is stepping aside to to pursue other…

Part boosterism, part spontaneous arts event, part everyone-wants-a-holiday-in-the-summer, this year’s White Linen Night in the Heights has snowballed (in August!) into a sprawling, quasi-commercial, quasi-community conglomeration of events that now…

Patience, in the traditional sense, is a virtue I’m not fortunate enough to possess. So much so that as a child I was set down and made to build model…

Kristina Van Dyke, Curator for Collections and Research at The Menil Collection has been named the new Director of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, MO; she…