"Charles Pebworth had this inherent ability to pick out the thing that was best in you, and to elevate it. And that’s why his students loved him."

As per usual, performances for Marfa Myths will span venues across the town, including the Marfa Studio of the Arts, the Chinati Foundation's Arena, The Capri, and the Marfa Visitor Center, among others.

The gallery, which has since 2013 been located in the Flatbed Press building in East Austin, came to a crossroads last year when Flatbed found out that its master lease on the building wouldn't be renewed, in order to make way for redevelopment.

Erin Cluley Gallery has announced its move to Dallas' Design District, with the new space slated to open on April 6.

"If people can have meaningful discussions with others, rather than drawing lines and fighting, then I am glad that the work can be a catalyst."

This is a return to UT Austin for Ms. Stimpert.

Rainey Knudson, the outgoing publisher of Glasstire, and Brandon Zech, the incoming publisher, run down the top five art events in Texas this week. Also: the first work by a Texas artist that Rainey ever bought.

Organizations from across America — including all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico — were chosen from the NEA's applicant pool, and were given more than $27 million in funding.

Pride Houston, a 40-plus year-old LGBTQIA organization, is launching the Pride Houston Art Program to highlight Houston-based LGBTQIA+ artists.

Bill Lassiter was known as a patron who managed to collect some of the city's best artists on a modest income.

SXSW has announced seven experiential and conceptual art installations to be exhibited in its third annual Art Program, which takes place in March during the conference.

These works, which are now on view in SAMA's contemporary arts galleries, help flesh out the institution's ever-growing holdings of works by living artists. 

In short, this show presents like a most timely biennial. 

One of Jacobs' installations creates the sensation of being absorbed or implicated in the art, as if the art is watching you.

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $20 million gift from The Moody Foundation of Galveston, Texas, to transform the museum’s exterior spaces.

The four days of the event will include workshops, lectures, panel discussions, a keynote lecture by Mari Carmen Ramirez, the Wortham Curator of Latino American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and other opportunities to meet with conference attendees.

Movies struggle with the subject of the art world, don't they? The best part about 'Velvet Buzzsaw' is how it's caused us to think of much better movies about art. 

Inspired by the abject-absurd/trash-irony sensibility of Harmony Korine's earlier movies, the 24-year-old Hayden Pedigo made and released a video on his Facebook page that went viral.

"My advice to people is to look up. I hope people really take time to take it all in, and smile, before they look back down at their grocery lists."

The university regularly brings in artists, scholars, and historians to give talks to its students and the public.