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Today, December 3, from 12-5PM, ClayHouston is hosting its first ever studio crawl featuring works by sixteen of the organization’s members in six Heights-area studios. Founded in 2004, ClayHouston offers Houston-based ceramics…

San Antonio artist Cruz Ortiz is currently installing his Dream Song Tower, a new $360,000 public art project, along the city’s South Side. Inspired by its location as a gateway to the…

Nicole Atzbach, Curator of the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, died at age 42 on November 4 after a brief battle with cancer. Her funeral service was held in…

The Visual AIDS website describes Day without Art’s history: In 1989, in response to the worsening AIDS crisis and coinciding with the World Health Organization’s second annual World AIDS Day…

Today the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio announced its recent acquisition of three major works by three African American artists: The Cop, by Benny Andrews; ghost: rhythms: III, by…

  This Saturday, December 2, the Harvey Arts Recovery Fund (HARF) will host a “Knowledge Share” for individual artists (writers, dancers, filmmakers, musicians, actors, visual artists, etc.) and staff of…

Today Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio announced an unprecedented upcoming city-wide exhibition celebrating San Antonio’s Tricentennial titled COMMON CURRENTS, which sees six of the city’s major non-profit art and culture spaces…

An organization called Art From the Streets, “A free & open art studio serving Austin’s homeless community”, has been going strong for 25 years now. This weekend, it will present…

City officials in Marfa have floated a proposed ordinance to define, re-zone, and police parking around town, which includes fines and towing and/or car booting, and many locals and regular…

For those who mourn the passing of Work of Art, Bravo’s brilliant and depressing reality show version of art grad school (with art critic Jerry Saltz as a prof), there’s…

This week, a Dallas-based auction house is offering up a chance to own pieces of presidential art history. Along with “The Bugle Which Sounded Taps for Lincoln” and a daguerreotype…

For those curious about the upcoming generation of artists and curators, the Teen Council (TC) of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) will present works by their peers this week,…

The University of Texas’ Blanton Museum of Art has hired two new curators, reports the Austin-based publication Sightlines. The institution has brought on Holly Borham as Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, and…

The Texas Commission on the Arts has opened up the application process for its roster of touring companies and artists, and that includes visual artists. It does this every two…

Cris Worley Fine Arts has announced that this coming Sunday, November 26, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas will host an event celebrating the life and work of Texas sculptor…

The Blue Genie Art Bazaar starts today and kicks off with an opening celebration from 6pm-10pm this evening. The annual Bazaar will present the work of more than 200 artists…

The HOPE Outdoor Gallery, in downtown Austin, will have a new home by the end of 2018, reports KVUE. Originally launched in 2011 with the help of artist Shepard Fairey…

The Art Lending Library (A.L.L.) is a novel project in Galveston spearheaded by artist Nick Barbee and made possible by the Idea Fund, which is Warhol grant money allocated in…

The Artist Foundation of San Antonio has returned after a year of restructuring to award individual artist grants $15,000 each cover four categories: visual, performing, and literary arts, plus a…