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…

The San Antonio Museum of Art has selected Katie Luber to be the museum’s new Kelso Director. A 5th generation Texan, Luber has degrees in art history from UT and…

Artist Sally Packard has been appointed director of the TCU School of Art, beginning on August 1. Before 2008, she was associate professor and foundations coordinator at the University of…

On Wednesday, May 11, Houston’s Glassell School is hosting a lecture by curator João Ribas titled The Belated Owl: Curating and the Contemporary. Ribas’ talk focuses on self-referentiality in academic…

The first meeting to organize Countercrawl, an alternative warehouse art event in Houston, is brewing, and it’s a potluck. Prospective countercrawlers will assemble at the Houston Foundry on Saturday May…

The Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its educational programs. The “Picturing America School Collaboration Project…

‘So, what do you do?’ Gulp, do I say artist, professor, writer, lawyer? One of these things is not like the other. Faced with this inevitable question I typically squirm.…

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary has moved quickly to confirm interim director Lisa Hees as its new Director. Hees has newly-minted (2009) BA in Art History from UT Arlington. Liliana Bloch,…

Without the fanfare and pared down in budget, projects like Mary Ellen Carroll’s much-hyped house moving art piece Prototype 180 are gaining traction as a popular pastime! Houston neighborhood blog…

A new art class titled “Land Arts of the American West” combines the study of “geomorphology and human construction” through a field program including visits to minimal/conceptualist land art monuments…

The National Endowment for the Arts has replaced it’s old “arts on radio and television” grants with new, wide-ranging “arts in media” program, which funds media projects about the arts,…

Dozens, perhaps hundreds of  art lovers, intellectuals and Glasstire supporters gathered yesterday at Dallas’ Rachofsky House to  celebrate Glasstire’s 10th anniversary, along with panelists Michael Galbreth, David Pagel, Christina Rees,…

A free screening of photojournalist Tim Hetherington’s feature-length documentary Restrepo, about soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, has taken on a new poignancy with news of Hetherington’s death in Libya. The…

  Artists generally can’t afford to be too materialistic, but they can be counted on to come up with creative responses to tough economic times. Director Patty Ortiz has assembled…

Those web-savvy folks over at the Houston press have assembled an interactive map of current street art in Houston by wheat-pasters Eyesore, Dual, Garro, Cutthroat, Shreddi, and the legendary Give…

Bonnie Pitman, soon-to-be ex-director of the Dallas Museum of Art, has been recognized by the American Association of Museums with its Award For Distinguished Service to Museums for 2011. She…