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…

Hurry on over to the Southwest Alternative Media Project‘s yard sale, Friday (today!) and Saturday 8am-2pm. AV geeks closets are always full of interesting stuff, and they promise new and…

Ashley Hunt, the current artist in residence at Houston’s Project Row Houses will present selections from his Corrections Documentary Project, about the ongoing mass incarceration crisis in the USA tonight…

The first art I’ve seen about the upcoming Houston art fair mayhem hit the web last week: Brian Piana’s battle-droid interactive graphic casts the fairs as opposing techno-organisms in an…

Inspired by the Nasher, just across the way, the Trammell Crow center is building an outdoor gallery space for Asian art. The Crow Asian Sculpture Garden will feature Japanese-style landscaping,…

Intrepid ARTnews correspondents in 22 countries interviewed  dealers, auctioneers, and other collectors to compile their 21st annual list of the most active art collectors, and a handful of Texans are…

Tomorrow, June 7, The International Museum of Art & Science, will hold a dedication ceremony for the giant wind turbine blade parked (next to the Olmec Head) on it’s lawn.…

R.I.P. Cy Twombly (1928-2011) Born in Lexington, Virginia in 1928, Twombly actively distanced himself from the major movements of 20th-century art, both stylistically and geographically. For decades, both critics and…

America’s first graffiti painter Cy Twombly died in Rome Tuesday at the age of 83. Known for his groundbreaking (or wall breaking) conflation of drawing, painting and writing, he is…

Emotions roil and crest like crashing waves in Australian-born artist Tracey Moffatt’s “Handmade,” seven cinematic mashups made from 1999 to 2010 on view through Sept. 11 at Artpace. Her movie…

Embattled antiquities director Hawass said in a statement Monday that images of hunting, fighting and celebrations along the banks of the Nile River drawn on a rock face in Aswan,…

The Ellen Nöel Art Museum in Odessa, made a Smithsonian affiliate last year, is receiving its first shipment of art from the Washington D.C.-based national museum: Upright Leaf Forms (1957)…

The Kimbell’s bust of Isabella D’Este by Romano was tagged in a photograph of the Alt Aussee Salt Mine in Austria, one of many repositories for artwork stolen by the…

Pastelegram, a new Austin-based magazine had its online launch Friday, July 1, with an interview with artist Travis Kent about his show at Domy Books, reviews of Silence and Time…