Dateline Dallas. The art market is about to get far more interesting — with a proven Texas entity boldly entering the lucrative world of art commerce. The revelation came in with an email touting a venture launched by one of the most respected, and successful, boutique art fairs in America. That would be the Dallas Art Fair, now in its 12th year, a Texas-founded and Texas-headquartered fair that every spring stands at the epicenter of Dallas Arts Month, crafting a scene spun around its hub at Fashion Industry Gallery, steps from the Dallas Arts District.

The Dallas Art Fair scored such a surprising amount of success with its virtual edition this past spring that event organizers are now launching a permanent digital platform. Today, the company behind the Dallas Art Fair launched Culture Place, a year-round online marketplace with an emphasis on regional dealers.

All new for Summer 2020 and installed through September of 2021, 17 sculptures by local, national and internationally-acclaimed artists are installed outdoors around the Anderson Ranch campus near Aspen, Colorado.

A group of 80 artists from around the country, led by rafa esparza and Cassils, teamed up to produce skytyped messages that appeared over immigrant detention camps around the United States, as well as other sites related to immigration, internment and incarceration.

On Friday, June 26, 2020 a federal judge in Los Angeles ordered the release of all migrant children from ICE’s three family detention centers . There are currently eleven children and parents who have tested positive for Covid-19 at the Karnes Family Detention Center in Karnes City, TX. The full order requires the Department of Homeland Security to release children in detention by July 17th if they have been held in ICE family detention centers for more than 20 days. The order states what we already know: that ICE CAN release parents with their children immediately. We cannot wait until July 17th for ICE to release all adults and children. The order also states that ICE is required to report their progress on July 8th which opens the door for ICE to finalize a formal plan for family separation. This deadline is NOT an excuse to release children separately from their parents.

Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art is pleased to announce NLFA artist Reed Anderson’s participation in this year’s Annual Art Auction hosted by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Every year, a curated selection of artists and their galleries are asked to donate work for the benefit of CAMH’s exhibitions and educational programming. The online auction is live NOW through June 27th at 9:00 PM CST.

On COOL HUNTING’s Instagram Live tomorrow (26 June) from 2PM to 4PM, filmmaker and art advisor Jaé Joseph will host eight 15-minute conversations with artists and creatives, as they paint pride/protest posters. Viewers are invited to paint-a-long and participate in the accompanying fundraiser for The Center—NYC’s acclaimed Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center. A link will be pinned to the live event, allowing viewers to chip in along the way.

Shortly before lockdown measures were implemented in mid March due to the coronavirus pandemic, the New York-based artist Lyle Ashton Harris retreated to his home upstate to “de-escalate and take some time to gestate” the current happenings in the world, he says. De-escalation, however, went by the wayside when widespread protests against police brutality broke out across the US.

Public Art UHS presents On Site x Off Site, a series of live conversations with artists from our collection. This event on June 23, 2020 at 5pm CST features Margo Sawyer & Jacob Hashimoto. A moderated discussion by Maria C. Gaztambide, PhD, director and chief curator, covering topics around their commissions at University of Houston-Victoria (Sawyer) and University of Houston-Downtown (Hashimoto), public art in general, and their respective studio practices.

Rarely does one enjoy the pleasure of being in the company of legendary people. Lyle Ashton Harris is one such person. His work has pushed boundaries and opened zones of creative agency for a generation of young artists. As a gay man he has experienced the deep traumas of losing friends and lovers to AIDS, and has brought that sadness and awareness of the human condition into his work in a way that communicates across many spectrums. What follows is an edited version of our conversation, #30 in an ongoing series that is part of the Rail’s New Social Environment, a daily lunchtime broadcast in the time of COVID-19.

The San Antonio Museum of Art remains closed to the public, but the institution is ready to welcome guests virtually. Starting next Tuesday, SAMA will begin hosting interactive, casual conversations with local artists that art-lovers can attend from comfort of their homes. Interested participants need simply register online, and the museum will provide a link to connect to the livestream.

Kudos are in order for the Dallas Art Fair’s 12th edition. Not only did the Dallas Art Fair smartly step up and reschedule when the COVID-19 closures first began — calendar these new dates, October 1 through 4 at Fashion Industry Gallery, in the heart of the Dallas Arts District — but the Fair nimbly crafted a seamless, immersive online platform that has yielded sales for its 94 exhibiting dealers.