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…

Pay-for-play “co-op” Watson Gallery (the franchised version of the former Blossom St. Gallery) has rounded up 25 local artists who will each pay $50 to put their work in vacant…

Houston artist Karen Brasier-Young’s Fragment/Ornament is a one night architectural intervention at the 1878 First National Bank Building, 2127 Strand at 22nd Street in Galveston. From 5-8pm during the June…

Dallas’ Plush Gallery is in Santa Fe for the summer, and is planning a series of pop-up shows there, beginning with Celia Eberle’s Petrified Forest on June 10 at The…

Lygia Clark’s “Bicho (Máquina)” is one of many artworks listed on the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s online feature, “100 Highlights of the MFAH”. Framed as “the most significant objects…

More on the Association of Art Museum Directors’ new ethical guidelines in today’s Culture Grrl blog on ArtsJournal. Specifically, Lee Rosenbaum highlights the growing number of “one-sponsor” shows funded and…

Dr. Alessandra Comini has given the first life-sized marble figure executed by Anne Whitney to the Dallas Museum of Art. Whitney was one of America’s premiere women sculptors working during…

The Austin Chronicle‘s Robert Faires recounts highlights of the Austin Art Hall of Fame and it’s 25 most recent inductees, Austin art pioneers from way back, chosen by the Austin…

Austin artist Shawn Smith’s pixelated wood block sculptures were featured on Wired UK‘s blog last week. In case you missed them , Smith’s digitized vultures were on view at Lawndale…

Fieldwork: Marfa, a researcher-in-residence program organized jointly through three european art schools, ESBA Nantes Métropole, HEAD – Genève, and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, will send six visitors to West…

The town of San Angelo, known for putting public sculpture in uncommon places, was struck by vandals as Pigeon Holed, a 1000-pound stone slab by sculptor David Cornell sited outside…