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Daniel Elliott, the manager of Jerry’s Artarama of Houston, is working with Jerry’s and other art supply companies to offer relief to artists directly affected by the storm. Here’s Elliot’s…

As he moved into Louisiana, Tropical Storm Harvey left his mess behind in East Texas. The City of Beaumont lost its water supply causing Lamar University, which includes the Dishman…

Artpace in San Antonio has extended the deadline for its Texas Open Call due to so many artists directly affected by Hurricane Harvey. It was August 31, and now it’s…

Across South and Southeast Texas, some museums put out the sandbags and moved art to higher ground, but the extremely unpredictable Hurricane Harvey caught others totally off guard. The Galveston…

If you are wanting to volunteer or drop off supplies at a shelter and you can’t make it to the George R. Brown downtown, there are many other places you…

(Ed. note: we will continue to update this post as we receive more information.) (If any readers have additional information on the status of these art spaces or others, please…

While we are all waiting for the horror of Hurricane Harvey to dissipate, “Master of Horror” Tobe Hooper died on Saturday, August 26, in Los Angeles. The New York Times…

As we work to collect updates from visual art institutions affected by Hurricane Harvey, we have also heard from our friends in the performing arts. The news is not good.…

Image: Richard Carson | Reuters Since Hurricane Harvey hit Texas this weekend, people across the southeastern coast of the state have been dealing with unprecedented flooding situations. In Rockport, where the…

Yesterday, ARTnews reported Texas museum closings due to Hurricane Harvey with updates about the Menil Collection and the Galveston Arts Center (buildings: so far, so good). In part, the article…

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has announced its speaker schedule for the upcoming fall season for its acclaimed Tuesday Evenings at the Modern series. One of the best lecture series in the state,…

Landmarks, the University of Texas at Austin’s public art program, has announced their plan to commission a mural by the Brooklyn-based artist José Parlá. The mural, which will be Parlá’s largest painting to…

Houston’s Fresh Arts, perhaps best known for providing opportunities and workshops for artists as well as its annual Winter Holiday Art Market (WHAM), will now take over the management of…

The Texas Arts & Music Festival, entering its second year, has announced the three muralists who will take on some really BIG-wall real estate in downtown Brenham this October as…

Since 2001, the Studio Museum in Harlem has put on a cycle of exhibitions called the “F-series,” including Freestyle, Frequency, Fore, and Flow. This year’s F show is called Fictions,…

The Texas Biennial 2017 has announced its dates, venue and artist list. Via the Texas Biennial: “Artists selected for TX★17 will be represented at a single venue, located at 211 E…

As Glasstire reported a couple of months ago, Solange Knowles will soon be performing in Marfa at the Chinati Foundation. The Houston native musician and performance artist first debuted “Scales,”…

The Houston Endowment has announced that it is partnering with a network of community nonprofit groups to form the Houston Coalition Against Hate (HCAH), joining a number of Coalitions Against…

Overnight last night the University of Texas at Austin removed three Confederate monuments from its campus. Via the New York Times: “Work to remove statues of two Confederate generals, Robert E.…

  If you didn’t get your special viewing glasses to view today’s solar eclipse, you can experience it through art. Twitter, of course, has its own “Eclipse Art Gallery,” which…