The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft has signed on three new crew members: artist Miriam Mendoza is the new Education Coordinator, and will manage the center’s artist residency program. New…

Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum, always free to the public, just got freer. A $50,000 grant from the NEA in 2009 is bearing fruit in a new online database of…

A one-night event merging sweaty bodies, neo-ancestral ritual, and performance art is coming to Houston’s warehouse district Saturday. Called Soulstice, the event is organized by theater theorist Kevin Holden, artistic…

Austin’s lone standing arts journalist, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, reports that Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is one of seven recipients of grants awarded by the Texas Women for the…

The Art Newspaper reports an intriguing recurrence in California of the ancient practice of making knock-offs of carved stone sculptures. California sculptor Don Wakefield was surprised to discover a copy…

Last week the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town program announced $6.575 million in grants to 51 communities. Among them are four projects in Texas: the city of El…

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…