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…

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…