Houston’s Diverseworks is organizing DW2, an extensive program of workshops next spring, aimed at clueing-in a cadre of professional local artists with the skills they need to "achieve self employment…

The Dallas Morning News’ Michael Granberry summarized the Dallas gallery migrations of 2007-2010, when several galleries, before and after the economic meltdown, moved to seek bigger and cheaper pastures in…

Hamptons Expo Group is organizing the Houston Fine Arts Fair for next September 15-18 at the George R. Brown Convention Center, alongside the established Houston Antique Dealers Association’s Fall Antique…

The jurors for the 2011 Hunting Art Prize will be Rachael Blackburn Cozad, Director, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Carol Damian, Director, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art…

Jim M. Henderson, art teacher and "founding father" of the Texas Art Education Association’s VASE scholarship program, passed away on November 12. Mr. Henderson taught art education and art appreciation…

That old Battle of San Jacinto painting found in a West Virginia attic was auctioned off in Dallas for a whopping $354,000 last week. The winning bidder has chosen to…

On my first visit to Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage at the Menil Collection, I overheard a man behind me whispering to his companion. “You know,” he hissed, “this stuff…

I can sense the Hermes assist as I cross into New Mexico. Out here they call him Coyote. He’s a kind of fellow traveler for me and has provided joy,…

Artlies, once a local artrag, now an "international forum for the critical examination of artistic practice, theory and discourse surrounding contemporary art" is expanding its online publication beyond archiving its…

D Magazine reports that architect-turned-artist Alfredo Jaar, scheduled to appear at Dallas Nasher Sculpture center and to do a brief residency at SMU, collapsed and was rushed to Presbyterian Hospital…

Animals have always been an important part of my life and a great emphasis in my own work as an artist. They remind me that soft and cuddly things can…

Thursday morning Jeff and I head into Lubbock in separate cars. He’ll go east to Dallas for a Texas Artists Today book signing and I’ll go north, but first we…

Like the dump in Stockbridge MA, The Chinati Foundation will be closed on Thanksgiving. But don’t go away! The foundation is inviting everyone the very next evening to a viewing…

Yard Show, an exhibit organized by Texas Folklife in collaboration with Jill Nokes, author of "Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home" (2007, University of Texas Press) places…

Houston City Councilman Al Hoang is suggesting that the city slash the current 1.75% for public art mandated by the 1999 public arts ordinance to 1% to help plug current…

The Artist Foundation of San Antonio has announced 12 winners of their 2010 Artist Grants, ranging from $5,000 to $7,500.  The Rick Liberto Award for Visual Arts Honoring Chuck Ramirez…

Austin glass artist Morgan Graff will receive the $10,000 Commission for "Strides"; Round Rock artist Bryan Dubreuiel has won the $1,000 Employee Choice Award. The two  were winnowed from 60…

This year marks the centennial of the Mexican Revolution and the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence. In commemoration, curators Kerry Doyle and Karla Jasso have assembled Contra Flujo: Independence and Revolution,…

Congratulations to Jamal Cyrus, Will Henry, and Jeff Williams, just announced as the finalists for the $30,000 Arthouse Texas Prize. Cyrus is a member of the Otabenga Jones collective which appeared in the…

Egyptian Religion, Medical Theory, and the Funerary Arts, a talk presented by Dr. Robert Ritner, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago Friday November 19 at 1:30pm and repeated…