Over 34 days, Houston artist Skeez181 gathered 76 graffiti writers to transform the 13,000sf SDC warehouse into Houston’s largest-ever graffiti mecca. Artists from as far as Munich, Germany and an…

Lame-duck art mag Artlies will launch it’s final issue, #68, themed “Architecture is not Art” edited by Mary Ellen Carroll, on Friday, May 20 from 6-8pm at Domy Books on…

From 6-8pm network, schmooze, wheedle, score face time, confab, kiss ass, or break balls at Diverseworks’ art-world Industry Night. Fun! fun! fun!  and Free! Don’t forget your promotional materials, hearty…

The Dallas Museum of Art has won an Association of Art Museum Curators Award for Excellence in the category of “Outstanding Small Exhibition” for The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from…

Steffani Jemison, artist in residence at the MFAH’s CORE program is the winner of this year’s $10,000 Meredith J. Long Core Program Award, given annually to a second-year Core artist-in-residence.…

To address the conditions of curating contemporary art, one must address the temporality it inhabits. This was one of many currents in a recent lecture at The Glassell School of…

Creative Capital’s MAP fund grants for 2011 include two Texas orgs: Houston’s Catastrophic Theatre gets money for The Hand Tales, a play that centers on a man mid-way through life’s…

Portable on Demand Art (PODA) pods by local artists and collectives Aerosol Warfare, BOX 13 ArtSpace, Jillian Conrad, Lynne McCabe, Gabriel Martinez, Metalab, Anthony Thompson Shumate and The Joanna will…

100+ art museums will take part in this year’s Art Museum Day on May 18, and some of them are in Texas: The Amon Carter , El Paso Museum of…

The newly refurbished and expanded Inman Gallery in Houston opens its first exhibitions on Friday, May 20 with work by Shaun O’Dell. Simultaneously opening at the Inman Annex just down…

From May 13-September 30, it’s PRINTHOUSTON, four months of events, talks, and exhibitions organized by PrintMatters, an org which, despite its name, does not mat prints, but instead promotes contemporary…

Applications for performers who want slots at next August’s Houston Fringe Festival  have until Sunday (tomorrow!) at 5pm to pay their $25 fee and send in their materials. If accepted,…

Take your protein pills and put your helmets on: experimental films from the 60’s and 70’s will be screened in the Burke Baker Planetarium at the Houston Museum of Natural…

This evening, Friday, May 13, students in Mat Johnson‘s graphic novel classes at UH strut their stuff at the Joanna art space from 7-10pm. The show includes works by Erica…

This year, the 10th annual 24-hour video race begins at 11:59, Friday, May 13 at the Angelika Film Center at 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, Dallas. Teams of filmmakers are given…

Kerrville jewelry retailer James Avery Craftsman has donated $15,000 to the Emerging Texas Artist Scholarship Program of the Texas Arts and Crafts Educational Foundation. The money will help keep eight…