Amid the sweat, the crowds, the music, the warez, and the pythons, there will be art! Events collectively titled 060611 include Artist-engineers Johnny DiBlasi, Steven Kraig, Patrick Renner, Sam Singh…

This is the year that I officially cease carping about Lawndale’s Annual Big Show for not being the wonderfully free, come-one-come-all brawl it once was. Times change, institutions change, even…

This year, the Austin Critics’  Table Awards ceremony is getting amped up with some extras: Pre-show, at 6:30 Butcher Bear & Charlie will be playing in the Cap City Comedy…

In an attempt to figure out what the hell has been going on at Texas institutions lately, I’ve been playing around with some numbers. Since the contemporary arts organizations I…

Apparently June 2 is the day the music stops in the constant game of curatorial musical chairs. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has named Dean Daderko as its new Curator,…

Dana Friis-Hansen, former director of the Austin Museum of Art,  has been chosen as the next Director and CEO of the Grand Rapids Art Museum. In the museum’s press release,…

Art students Madison Ward, Elena Chudoba, Zelda Valverde and Andi Redman were each awarded a $400 US savings bond from the fifth annual Goss-Michael Foundation Student Art Contest. Kathe Fishburn…

Anne Wilkes Tucker, the MFAH’s star curator of photography was awarded an honorary PhD by the State University of NY, Brockport. Although Tucker was unable to attend the graduation ceremony,…

Texas Tech in Lubbock is one of the only American universities to offer a PhD degree in art, but the disturbing trend may be gaining steam, says Daniel Grant in…

James Magee, TX Biennial artist and creator of The Hill outside of El Paso, discusses his project in biblical terms with Jerome Weeks of KERA’s Art and Seek in today’s…

The Houston Art Alliance is fundraising to bring jailed dissident Chinese artist Ai WeiWei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads to Houston. The piece (one of two copies) is owned by a…

D Magazine recently ran an interview with longtime Dallas art dealer Barry Whistler, eliciting a bit of history and a bit of philosophy on the occasion of his 25th year…

The Arcata, California, Kinetic Sculpture Race finishes today, amid reports of high winds and tough going. In this venerable (since 1969) “triathlon of the art world” event all-terrain human-powered art…

The Austin Critics’ Table has announced its nominees for 2010-2011 awards, to be handed out at an academy-awards style ceremony at the Cap City Comedy Club on June 6. Among…

Registration by mail or fax (no email!) opens June 1 for $820 slots during the 16 days of portfolio reviews at this year’s Fotofest biennial in Houston. 160 intrepid curators,…

Next Thursday, June 2, there’s an opening reception for Anton Ginzburg: At the Back of the North Wind at the Palazzo Bollani, Castello 3647, 30122 Venezia from 6-9pm. Ginzburg’s installation,…

Visitors to the Kimbell’s Picasso and Braque show will be able to use iPads loaded with a specially-created app to analyze what they’re seeing. Working with Reza Ali of MegaVision,…

The Texas Commission on the Arts has named its officially recognized State Artists for 2012: sculptor and Blue Star Art Space director Bill FitzGibbons to be this year’s State Three…