Here’s an interesting cross-section of San Antonio arts news. Now that I look at it, though, “escena” looks a little too much like “eczema” so I’m gonna call the next…

Swamplot reports on an aggressively surveilled fruit trees in Houston’s West university neighborhood. For at least two growing seasons, a yard on Tangley, west of Buffalo Speedway, has posted in-your-face…

Austin’s new skate park is is having a grand opening at 10am today. The 30,000sf plain of concrete swoops and ramps includes The Iron Wave, a skate-able structure by Austin…

Graziella Marchicelli, Director of the Amarillo Museum of Art since 2006, was abruptly fired on May 13 for what T. Jay Reeves, the president-elect of the museums board called “a…

Dr. P. Gregory Warden, Art History Professor at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts, received the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity and the title of Cavaliere (knight) in…

The Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas has put forward a strong challenge to the International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen’s domination of the museum pun industry…

Culturemap‘s Steven Thompson reports on how a Russian embargo on art lending has but a crimp into the exhibition schedules of the Houston’s Museum of Natural Science, which had planned…

Gopher Illustrated, “a publication featuring emerging talents in visual arts, design, literature and journalism” has re-located to Austin from Caracas, Venezuela, with its editor Michu Benaim. The mag’s second issue…

Liliana Bloch, former director of the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, has re-emerged into the artworld as Gallery Director for Kirk Hopper Fine Art in Dallas, where she has ambitions…

Boheme wine bar in the “quaint and lively Montrose area” at Taft and Fairview in Houston is hosting the next edition of Spacetaker’s popular Cultured Cocktails events, and this one’s…

NBC has noticed the 50-year old giant pecan sculpture in Seguin, featuring a photo of the historic 5-foot nut on it’s Dallas website. There’s a link to the Eiffel Tower…

The third of Artadia’s exchange exhibitions, Messin’ with Texas opens Sunday, June 12 at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. Curated by the center’s Director of Exhibitions Allison Peters…

‘Tis the season to hand out financial advice. There isn’t a rock in existence under which we could live and not hear about the dismal state of the economy, how…

(To read Arthouse and the Dallas Contemporary: Crunching the Numbers, Part I, click here.) In 2009, the Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) cancelled its plans for a new building downtown…

Master printers Pat Masterson and Carlos Hernandez’s new venture, Burning Bones Press, will open to the public for tours from 7-10 p.m. on Saturday, June 11. The infamous Drive-By Press,…

The Southern Naptist Convention, a project of Napping Affects Performance artist Emily Sloan and the Universal Nap Church is congregating on Sunday, June 12 at 1pm at 14 Pews in…

BooksmART, a free day of kids’ book-related activities happening in the Dallas Museum of Art Saturday June 11, has lined up Rick Riordan, best selling author of the Percy Jackson…