Lucia Simek

A couple years ago, there was a push in the Dallas City Council to create a public improvement district—a PID—that would go toward funding arts organizations, with funds coming from…

Houston’s Menil Collection announced today that Paul R. Davis will join the museum as Curator of Collections. Davis comes to Houston by way of Johannasburg, South Africa where he has been…

Grace Museum in Abilene will be the first pilot museum to implement the Friends program that the Dallas Museum of Art initiated in January 2013. Friends is a free program…

The biggest art competition in the world has opened its registration for applicants–ArtPrize is back for its sixth year! Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the annual competition brings art, good…

This week the Museum of Fine Arts Houston unveils the long awaited Houston Penetrable, an immersive installation by Venezuelan artist Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005) which has been a long time coming.…

As the Texas summer barrels down on us, Octavia Art Gallery has announced it will host a pop-up art show about the season, in collaboration with curator Alice Carrington Foultz, at the…

This just in: Dallas artist Winston Lee Mascarenhas has won the $50,000 2014 Hunting Prize! Mascarenhas’s painting Rite of Spring was selected from 115 finalists. Mascarenhas was born in Laredo,…

Lawndale Art Center has announced Erin Elder, Artistic Director at Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts, as its 2014 juror of The Big Show, its annual open call exhibition. For…

There is a lot going on in Marfa this weekend: CineMarfa kicked off on Thursday and continues through the weekend, and Chinati hosts a talk, in partnership with CineMarfa between artist Zoe Leonard…

As we reported last month, the Dallas Museum of Art is part of what is being called the “biggest art show ever”–billboards emblazoned with famous works of art as selected…

Ever the prankish knave of the art market, Houston artist Mark Flood will put on his art-star jester suit next week and stage a five day art fair in Chelsea, the…

Next week, famed Texan author Larry McMurtry will saunter into Dallas to speak at the Dallas Museum of Art as part of Arts and Letters Live, where he will discuss his…

Ever wonder who is running this operation–this art-dedicated, intelligent, good-looking and sophisticated 13 year-old website, Glasstire? Ever wanted to have a real-life, not-in-the-comments-section conversation with someone that runs it? Well,…

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has announced the Houston Art Car Parade’s 2014 Grand Marshall: Houston Mayor Annise Parker. As the Grand Marshall of the parade, Mayor Parker will…

What a great combo: art/words/noise—the major genres of art-making all on the same plate. Such is the stuff of MenilFest, the annual, one-day festival that’s held on the Menil Collection’s…

The 25th Annual Map Fund Awards, which distributes grants to artists in the field of contemporary performance, has announced its 2014 recipients, including Houston artist Allison Orr, director of Forklift…

Lawrence Schovanec, Texas Tech provost, has announced that W. Brent Lindquist will be the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences beginning July 15. Lindquist comes to Lubbock by…

Artists are always looking for cheap retail space to mount shows on their own, outside of the gallery system. Typically, they scour the tangle of streets near cultural urban centers,…

Art on view during last weekend’s Sor Juana Festival in Austin shed the spotlight on the importance of art as a form of therapy and rehabilitation in prison. Now prison…

In response to the growing number of arts organizations in Houston in need of marketing support, Fresh Arts has developed a program that will help groom three select small organizations with the…