“Turner to Monet: Masterpieces from The Walters Art Museum,” drew a record number of visitors to the Blanton Museum in Austin, proving again the uncanny, hypnotic power of impressionist painting…

The Texas Cultural Trust has announced its 2011 medal of arts winners. Among the writers, film-makers, musicians etc., visual artist James Drake and director of the Ransome center at UT…

With Houston’s cheesy "tolerance bridge" idea scrapped in favor of a functionalist foot-and-bike way, the tolerance crowd have moved on to public sculptures, commissioning seven 10-foot high shiny steel figures…

Poster artist Shepard Fairey and the Associated Press have settled their lawsuits, agreeing to disagree about who stole who’s images, splitting the profits on the popular Barack Obama HOPE image…

Slippery roads during last night’s freeze may have conspired to cause a tractor-trailer load of paint to overturn and spill on the ramp from the North Freeway southbound to the…

The Houston Arts Alliance is one of 100 participants in Americans for the Arts’ first Local Arts Index survey. Funded by the Kresge foundation (meaning: we don’t have to pay!),…

  It glides in under the radar while I’m enjoying a patch of midday sun or clear night sky: without warning, I miss Texas. Not the heat and air pollution…

Houston Arts Alliance has paid up to make Houston one of the subjects for the upcoming Arts & Economic Prosperity Study IV, organized by lobbying group Americans for the Arts.…

"Art-centric" Hotel ZaZa Dallas has announced it will collaborate with Turner Carroll Gallery and Art Advisors to bring "internationally acclaimed art exhibitions" to the newly opened Stay ZaZa Art House…

Insourced, this year’s Dallas Museum of Art staff art exhibition, is on view now through March 13 on Mezzanine 2 of the DMA next to the Mayer Library. The biennial…

Houston artist Dick Wray died early Sunday morning. The prolific, irascible painter’s public career spanned nearly 50 years. Born in Houston in 1933, Wray studied at the Kunstakademe, Dusseldorf, Germany,…

The Fairmont Dallas Hotel where "everyone’s an individual," has chosen furniture maker/scrap artist Sean Springer as its first artist in residence for 2011. Springer will live at the hotel from…

Hotels want art these days- the W Austin Hotel is going to host contemporary art exhibitions borrowed from the UT Visual Arts Center, as well as works by faculty and…

Esther Gutstein and her new Houston pop-up art space, the Brayer Room, are profiled in Culturemap today. Taking advantage of under-utilized art space she saw in Houston, Gutson has curated…

400 works by Victoria school kids will be on display in a fromer GAP store at the Victoria Mall as they compete for placement in the Houston Livestock Show and…

In an ironic turnabout, attorneys for artist Jeff Koons sent a letter asking Park Life, asking the a San Franciso gallery/gift store to stop selling and advertising cast-resin balloon dog…

This Saturday, ice artists from around the country will use chainsaws and blow torches to transform ice into art at the third annual Magnificent Seven Ice Sculpting Contest in Houston’s…

A ten-foot statue of former Congressman Charles Wilson will be unveiled at 1pm Wed. January 12 in front of the Charles Wilson VA outpatient clinic in Lufkin. The sculpture, titled…

League City artist Ted Ellis will  paint a portrait of civil rights icon Rosa Parks’ home in Montgomery, Alabama to kick-off the opening of his exhibit at Troy University’s Rosa…

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