The Chinati Foundation helps fill those semi-arid school holidays with art activities for kids: Monday it’s Squares, Rectangles, Peanuts; festive light cubes on Tuesday, a scavenger hunt on Wednesday, kites…

March 2011 will be the 26th annual San Antonio Contemporary Art Month, and their open-ended calendar is open-ended for submissions. Anyone planning on participating (and that can be everyone) can…

European  tax authorities have ruled that  light and video projection works by Bill Viola and Dan Flavin are not art under the VAT rules, and are thus subject to a…

83-year-old uber-kitchmeister David Addickes is packing up his Summer St. studio in Houston, and moving his operations to his former high school in Huntsville, which he bought and will transform…

The UT-Dallas arts and technology program just got a $5 million anonymous donation to create endowed positions for research faculty. It’s the largest donation in the history of its School…

For The Trees Matthew Ronay’s Between The Worlds, at the Hudson (Show)Room, Artpace, appears alternately rooted and nomadic. Yurt, grotto, hall of mirrors, night wood, it beckons a walk through…

The people in Dallas who know about these things have all heard of Dan H. Phillips, but I figure most everyone elsewhere in the state has yet to run across…

Yesterday morning, reddish-brown mud began welling up from cracks in the concrete floor at Houston’s Inman Gallery in the Isabella Court building. The ooze pooled and spread, eventually covering much…

Menil Director Josef Helfenstein announced that Adam Szymczyk is the 2011 Recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. Szymczyk is the director and chief curator of Kunsthalle Basel.…

The Andy Warhol Foundation has threatended to pull further funding  to the Smithsonian Institution unless it re-instates the censored David Wojnarowicz video, A Fire in My Belly, cut from a…

The Bucks Burnett Collection, the world’s first museum of eight track tapes (if you don’t count it’s earlier installation in Denton), will open Christmas Day (that’s Saturday, December 25) from…

  Marfa is full of curious things, and the Ayn Foundation is one of the most curious.    The windows of the two storefronts of the old Brite Building downtown are covered with white…

John Cage’s famous 4’33" is making a fair bid to hit the top of the British pop music charts this holiday season. Interpreted as a protest against insipid pop music…

Huntsville alterna-builder Dan Phillips will design Houston’s new Smither Park on a half-acre next door to the Orange Show. The park is a tribute to John H. Smither, lawyer, board…

Theodore Bale moved to Houston in March; now he’s blogging the Texas art scene for artsjournal.com. Although mostly a dance and music guy, his new blog, Texas, a Concept  gets…

The Dallas Museum of Art has named Rebecca A. Prince their new Chief Development Officer; she starts work on February 7. Before that, Prince was the highly successful Vice President…

The Texas Film Commission has reneged on promises to pay $1.75 million in production incentives to the producers of "Machete" a B-movie shooter starring Robert DeNiro, because of a “content…

The Idea Fund has announced a new list of out-there projects it’s funding next year: ArtScouts Houston (Elaine Bradford, Emily Link, Dennis Nance, and C.H.JoAnn Park) fir Nohegan East: An…

Art education at it’s best. Stephen Colbert and Steve Martin go all art insidery on the Colbert Report last week. With cameos by Frank Stella, Shepard Fairy and Andres Serrano;…

An enormous inflated creature crouches atop the building housing Marty Walker Gallery. It’s a Macrodon, a creature born from Billy Zinser’s expressionistic, Philip Guston-ish paintings, and brought to life as…