The 2011 Wildlife Forever State-Fish Art Contest is open to all students, with catgories  for ages 4-18. Just submit a one-page essay and a drawing of an "officially recognized state…

Clifford Owens, a New York-based photographer and performance artist, will speak at the Glassell School of Art’s Freed Auditorium on Friday, January 7 at 7pm. Owens creates photographs of art…

500X, Texas’ oldest artist-run space, has put out a call for entries for EXPO 2011, their annual juried show. This year’s juror is Marty Walker of Dallas’ Marty Walker Gallery. …

On January 28 and 29, the Western Artists of America (like the WWF for wrestling!)will be holding their auction and exhibition at the Pearce Museum at Navarro College in Corsicana.…

Here they are, the shows we think you need to see, sorted by city. New Year, New Art — these are our picks for the best of the Spring. Enjoy!…

Artists Mat Wolff, Cory Wagner and Noelle Mason, operating as DumpTruck Studios, have launched a new blog, How to Make art in Texas. Nothing’s online so far, but interviews with…

A curiously double-edged piece in yesterday’s Corpus Christi Caller outlines the city’s unusually active public art program, the second oldest in Texas, while continually emphasizing its cost relative to today’s…

The Chron’s Douglas Britt looks back at the year in art, handing out kudos to curators Yasufumi Nakamori, Michelle White, Timothy Gonzalez, and Valerie Cassell Oliver. Britt notes the new…

Swamplot, the Houston Real Estate blog has a jump on the inevitable year-end list phenomenon with it’s 2010 "Swampies." Awards for "best Houston design cliche", "Best Wal-Mart" and "Houston parking…

  This is my last post. Thank you for your loyal readership over the past six months. My internship at the Chinati Foundation has come to an end, and I’ve left Texas…

Houston has often been fertile ground for some off-the-grid artist projects. This year we’ve seen a slew of artists using Houston as their playground to develop new projects, organizations and…

After 75 years, Kodakchrome, the first  popular color film, is history. The last machine at the last lab to process the legendary slide film, at Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas…

The CAMH-sponsored screening and discussion of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly well attended by a crowd of angry Houston art lovers at the MFAH’s Freed Auditorum. Curators Bill…

Jenny Staff Johnson blogs in the Houston Press about Rice University’s new no more "quiet quality" campaign as it tries to crank up its art cred with an ambitious public…

Wendy DesChene’s upcoming installation, titled WYSIWYG, at the Houston Art League requires old toys, which are dismembered and reconfigured, scraps of previously painted canvas, and willing hands to WYSIWYG it…

Sam Blaine’s Dallas Art History Blog has arrived, with a first post of nearly 11,000 words aimed at setting the record straight about the Dallas art scene’s injustices and dirty…

Last week, Travis County contracted to buy a city block from the Austin Museum of Art, the one that the museum had planned, three times, to build on. The latest…

CT scans made of a collection of fossil dinosaur eggs by Lufkin amateur dinosaur hunter Dr. Neal Naranjo revealed the world’s only known Pterodactyl embryo still in it’s shell! Dr.…

Houston artists Brian Mahanay and Julie Birsinger were two of seventeen a teams who sculpted hotel rooms from ice in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, just north of the Arctic circle at ICEHOTEL,…

Today’s Dallas Morning News has a feature on James G. Pepper, a Dallas administrative assistant who is inscribing an illuminated King James Bible in his spare time. The 23-year old…