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Mellon Foundation launches $25m fund to support culture along the US-Mexico border
The inaugural Frontera Culture Fund will contribute to 32 arts and community organisations
Austin’s Blanton Museum reimagines its grounds as a place for a university campus, city and community
A recently completed $35m renovation led by Snøhetta seeks to seamlessly connect the museum to its surroundings
Shahzia Sikander says she will not fix statue that was beheaded in Houston
In a Washington Post op-ed, the artist wrote she wants to leave the sculpture damaged to show the “fissures in our country”
Texas city faces backlash for stripping local arts centre's funding over drag performances
The city council in Lubbock, Texas voted last week to cut $30,000 in grant money to a free monthly art walk
Austin gallerists boosting local art scene with joint collectors’ circle
Austin gallerists boosting local art scene with joint collectors’ circle
Early sales at the Dallas Art Fair prove even a solar eclipse can't overshadow Texas's hot market
As demand for art in Dallas and the rest of Texas heats up, dealers are eager to get a foothold in the Lone Star State—including at the new-ish Dallas Invitational satellite fair
‘Shame on those that silence artists’: Shahzia Sikander speaks out after her opening in Texas is cancelled
The University of Houston seems to have caved to the threats of a local anti-abortion group
Border Biennial showcases art across the Texas-Mexico border
It’s the first physical iteration of the El Paso and Juárez exhibition in five years, after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 edition
Kimbell Art Museum acquires important cultural touchstone of Olmec art
The jade statuette of an Olmec ruler holding a baby were-jaguar will be exhibited as the centrepiece of the Texas museum's ancient American collection
US returns almost 100 stolen pre-Hispanic artefacts to Mexico
They had been smuggled into the US after a 2008 museum heist
Christie’s eyes Austin, Texas as a potential hotspot for millennial clients
The auction house will host its first outreach event in the rapidly growing Texan capital next month
Ornate pre-Hispanic incense burner returned to Mexican officials in Texas ceremony
The clay archaeological marvel, which was recovered thanks to a Texan artist, is believed to be more than 1,300 years old
Dallas Art Fair gets a boost from Texas’s resilient economy and surging population
Despite the fair’s more sedate, distinctly Southern pace, local and international dealers reported plenty of sales during the VIP preview
US President Biden designates two new national monuments in the American Southwest
Both sites contain examples of Indigenous art including petroglyphs and pictographs
A new hotel fair for up-and-coming galleries will launch in Dallas
The inaugural Dallas Invitational Art Fair will be held in April across the street from the established Dallas Art Fair
'It repurposes a building that was first made to cause terror': arts centre in former Ku Klux Klan auditorium names inaugural leader
Renovation work at the future Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing in Fort Worth, Texas, is expected to begin early next year
Su-suit-io: Alamo experts sue authors of a book suggesting they sold phoney artefacts from the battle to British pop star Phil Collins
The authors of the book imply that antiquities dealer Alexander McDuffie and historian Joseph Musso faked inscriptions and fraudulently authenticated artefacts that were set for a revamped Alamo site
Plans for $70m National Juneteenth Museum in Texas come into full view
The museum will be housed in a 50,000 sq. ft timber structure on Fort Worth's Southside designed by Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group
Centre of Marfa, Texas, including 11 buildings repurposed by Donald Judd, added to US National Register of Historic Places
The designation will aid the Chinati and Judd foundations in preserving their buildings in the West Texas town
Looted Roman bust, bought from Texas secondhand store for $34.99, will be returned to Germany
The first-century marble sculpture, likely stolen by an Allied soldier during the Second World War, will go on view at the San Antonio Museum of Art before being repatriated to Bavaria
Donald Judd planned to turn a remote Texan outpost into an art oasis—now, the first step of a huge restoration project is complete
Once a military base deep in the desert, the newly restored Marfa art centre is a sanctuary for sculpture
Sound art garden coming to Blanton Museum of Art thanks to $5m donation from Austin philanthropists Ernest and Sara Butler
The Bay Area artist Bill Fontana plans to make the echolocation of bats perceptible to human ears for the site’s first commission
Woolworth Building in San Antonio, a landmark in civil rights history, is spared from demolition
Former 1921 dime store, which peacefully desegregated its lunch counter in 1960, will house an Alamo museum
Hockney and Van Gogh paintings meet in Houston for exhibition on the joys of nature
Despite Covid-19, the show will open with works now safely flown across the Atlantic
Unorthodox preacher: Leo Steinberg's prints helped explore and explain his sometimes controversial theories
An exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art in Texas looks at the legacy of the art historian through his vast collection, which includes different takes on Leonardo's Last Supper
Ruby City: collector Linda Pace's dream museum becomes reality in Texas
Wizard of Oz vision inspires new $15m contemporary art centre in San Antonio designed by David Adjaye
On the Road to Marfa with Elmgreen and Dragset
The duo recently visited their Prada Marfa installation for the first time since the work’s unveiling in 2005—and we joined them on the road trip
Why a six-ton scholar’s rock is making its way from China to Texas
A low-key request from the San Antonio Museum of Art director resulted in a big gift from Lake Taihu near Wuxi
Dallas school given largest collection of Swiss art outside of Switzerland
The University of Texas at Dallas is building its first museum to house the gift
Houston's museum building boom continues with opening of Menil Drawing Institute
Campus expansions at three museums in Texas's biggest city focus on creating civic spaces as well as on showing art