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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
Antidote for apathy: Rodney McMillian's Austin show is a 'call to action'
Amid the Los Angeles artist's politically minded work, visitors can register to vote in Texas's forthcoming mid-term elections
Dallas collectors open arts space
The first exhibition will focus on Italian and Japanese art from the 1950s-1970s
Former Iranian ambassador gives $2.8m to assist Texas's Museum of Fine Arts in pursuit of Islamic art
The director says that the collection will be the first of its kind in the region, catering to an emergent Muslim community
Deep in the art of Texas: focus on Dallas as a flourishing community of dealers and collectors
Talley Dunn of Gerald Peters Gallery states with pride that “The art community as a whole is growing”