Houston gallerists Devin Borden and Hiram Butler are parting ways, after a 20 year partnership. A brief statement about the split accomanied their announcement of the last joint opening, Shane…

Sala Diaz has initiated Casa Chuck, a residency program for artists, arts writers and curators at Chuck Ramirez’s former residence and studio in San Antonio. Casa Chuck aims to support…

A couple weeks ago, Austin’s Arthouse presented its second round of exhibitions in its newly renovated and expanded building. Opening night was packed with people moving back and forth through…

Austin’s KXAN news reports that “this week, fine arts students from across the state swarmed the Texas State Capitol to tell lawmakers their curriculum is not extracurricular.” The fear is…

There’s now scientific proof that even nonspecialists can distinguish serious abstract painting by humans from hackwork done for pay by monkeys, elephants or gorillas. Researchers at Boston College tested 40…

Ex-Texan curator and ex-longtime MFAH staffer Janet Landay abruptly left her new post as executive director of the American Association of Museum Directors. Her resignation was announced Monday in an…

Fort Worth Public Art is looking for quotes from qualified conservators or preservationists to provide condition assessments for six ceramic tile murals included in the City of Fort Worth’s Public…

Students at Austin’s Connally High School are part of the Cannes Film Project, and will be sending  two short films to the Cannes Film Festival. FALLEN and a documentary about…

Although the museum has spent $21,000 trying to save it, one of three 200+ year old oak tree in front of Laguna Gloria’s Driscoll Villa in Austin is to be…

As part of Mary Temple: Northwest Corner, Southeast Light, Rice Gallery is sponsoring Northeast Corner: Rice Campus Nature Walk, a 45-minute exploration of the beautiful Rice University campus. Grounds superintendent…

UT, Austin has acquired a Sol Lewitt concrete-block arrangement to be placed at the entrance to its Dell Computer Science Hall. The sculpture “Circle with Towers” (2005) was purchased from…

Harris County Judge Ed Emmett is publicly pushing for a minimalist approach to rehabbing the Astrodome, removing much of its interior infrastructure and using it as a sort of giant…

The City of Austin opened the latest installment of the annual People’s Gallery Exhibition at City Hall on February 18. A crowd of over 1000 publics heard a proclamation from…

Houston artist/curator/editor Leo Medrano, aka “Leosapien” is launching Role A|F|M a new Houston-based local art, fashion, and music mag at the 2nd annual Perfect 10s Art Show at War’Hous Visual…

I don’t know how this stuff gets out into the collective creative unconscious but I think I like it. Adam Silverman’s amazing pottery at Peel Gallery is apparently channeling diseases…

The first ever Archie comic book was sold in Dallas at Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 24-25 Comics & Comics Art Auction for an all time record $167,300 to an unidentified west…

Bring your blanket on Friday as Aurora Picture Show and the Menil present an evening of outdoor TV starring Andy Warhol, including excerpts from his 80’s cable TV show “Andy…

From January 13 to February 4, 2011, a table of patrons in the second-floor cafeteria of the Museum of Modern Art ate the exact same thing: “a tuna fish sandwich…

Erin Siudzinski, gallery manager and registrar at Houston’s Robert McClain gallery in since 2008, has been promoted to assistant director on the departure of Scott Peveto at the end of…

Houston’s Willowbrook Mall is host to the Northwest Assistance Ministries’ 13th “Art for the Hungry” sculpture-building event between February 27 and March 13. Participants build a sculptures out of at…