I’m sure you’re already heard, but  The Houston Fine Art Fair, inevitably to be known as “the first fair” arrives at the George R. Brown Convention Center from September 15-18.…

This summer, the Dallas Contemporary is offering a street art workshop, promising to train 20 young artists, age 13-16 in “all aspects of the artistic process” under the tutelage of…

More fun than a Mexican whorehouse, and probably just as awful. I mean that in a good way.

Paintings are to be enjoyed, but drawings are to be studied: NY’s Morgan Library & Museum is starting its own Drawing Institute, and will partner with the Menil Collection and…

Lawndale Art Center’s Big Show had its big opening on Friday; juror Larissa Harris bestowed three $1000 awards on Rodney Flores, Emily Grenader and Matt Messinger. This year’s big show…

Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil has been selected as 2010’s best book on an art collection by the International Art Book and Film Festival of…

The Independent Arts Collaborative (what an oxymoron!) has made a down payment on is the former City of Houston planning and permits building at 3400 Main St. in Houston as…

For the next couple of months I will be in New York and will post of a few blog posts called “Houston in New York”. So let’s start it off…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced the next ten Brown Foundation Fellows who will take up residence at the Dora Maar House during the Fall 2011 term (July…

A new dribble of press info from the Texas Contemporary Art Fair! Two things stick out as really new: 1.They’re “currently in the process of accepting applications from galleries and…

The monumental sculptures of French artist Bernar Venet, brought to Hermann Park by the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts last year, are still here! Moved to Oyster Creek Park in…

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has announced plans to digitally archive 10,000 pieces of primary source material on Latin American art and make it available online. The ten year,…

Have you ever noticed than when people look at abstract paintings they’re always peeking around the edges? Clearly the painter has left some secret nugget of wisdom on the sides…

Adair Margo Fine Art in El Paso is closing again, this time for good, on June 30, 2011. Founded in 1985, Adair Margo Gallery exhibited over 200 individual artists from…

Renowned performance artist Nick Cave (not the renowned Australian alt-rocker), will be artist-in-residence at the University of North Texas Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2011-2012. Cave,…

Houston art fan Robert Boyd, whose The Great God Pan Is Dead blog enlivens the art scene here, is enlivening it in a more direct way by offering to add…