Judith H. Dobrzynski’s Real Clear Arts blog on ArtsJournal discusses the results of a Metroplitan Museum of art photo contest: visitors were asked to take close-up snapshots of details of…

Finally! The enormous main-street facing wall of Houston’s Lawndale Art Center is getting the mural it has been aching for for years. For the 2011-2012 season artist Daniel Anguilu will…

In an interview earlier this year, Dallas Contemporary Director Peter Doroshenko cited the Paris’ Palais de Tokyo as a model for his vision of an internationally hooked up art venue.…

UT newspaper The Horn headlines “UT sues Ryan O’Neal over Farrah Fawcett portrait”; the celebrity-minded NY Post says “Ryan O’Neal has now been sued by the University of Texas in…

In honor of the late, iconoclatic anthropologist, author, filmmaker, and curator Dr. Edmund Snow Carpenter, the Menil presents a reading of his  landmark 1973 book, Eskimo Realities.  The reading, which…

Despite a $2000 award, despite resume-building new-media cachet, despite the popularity of past residents‘ online projects, the storied connectedness of the social media continuum has failed so far to draw…

Despite Galveston’s laid-back, storm-pummelled, crime-ridden reputation, fearless Houston artists Ray Phillips and David Hardaker have ambitious plans for their new Avis Frank Gallery at 215 23rd Street in the Strand…

Combining her loves of crafting and space exploration, self-described “hand embroidery-obsessed, massive space geek” Rachel Hobson of Houston saw a print of one of her embroidered pieces take flight with…

Good ol’ federal government! Every museum would like to archive its documents in digital form, but few would pay extra to make them publicly accessible, or translate them for diverse…

Austin art collective Okay Mountain (Ryan Hennessee, Sterling Allen, and Peat Duggins) spent long, long hours animating this new video for Bill Callahan’s new album Apocalypse! The video was produced…

Equipped with paint brushes, gardening tools and cleaning supplies, 60 college students will tackle a laundry list of projects to beautify the Creative Arts Center of Dallas on Wednesday. The…

The Idea Fund has announced Round Four of the oddball re-granting program for 2011-2012. Information sessions explaining guidelines, how to apply, etc. are to be scheduled in Austin, El Paso,…

On June 22, 36 digital cameras were stolen from Houston’s Literacy Through Photography program.  Forty students who were using them in a class at Project Row Houses’ Summer Arts Enrichment…

Surrealist sculptor Hobbes Vincent was selected as the next artist in residence (literally!) at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas. He’s an old favorite at the Fairmont: Vincent’s larger-than-life stag already…

The expanding Kimbell is expanding its staff: hiring star curator George Shackelford as it’s new #2 man. Shackelford, who worked for eleven years at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,…

UT’s Harry Ransom Center is celebrating the rare homecoming of one of its most famous and most-borrowed artworks, Frida Kahlo’s Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940). Since 1990 the…