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  Austin arts organization Big Medium has announced that Zack Ingram is the winner of the inaugural Tito’s Prize. An Austin-based sculptor and printmaker, Ingram has shown works in shows both regionally and…

Artist Gretchen Goetz is the creator of the “4 Door Gallery,” a phone booth sized public art piece in west Dallas. Last Thursday, a bystander recorded a woman vandalizing the…

The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston has announced that their 2017 Mitchell Artist Lecture will feature The Yes Men (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno). Known for…

News via the Bowerbird: The Center for Contemporary Arts in Abilene has put out a call for submissions for its first annual juried exhibition. This year’s juror is artist Randy Meador, and…

This week, the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) announced the three artists participating in the organization’s 2017-2018 artist-in-residence cycle: Pamela Council, Kristina Estell, and Justin Raphael Roykovich. Pamela Council is a Bronx, NY-based artist who…

An opera based on the dramatic lives of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. It seems so obvious. Why didn’t someone think of this before? The Fort Worth Opera has announced…

On Sunday, August 13 at 11 a.m., DFW artist/musicians Bruce Blay, Gregory Ruppe and Danny Skinner will perform a sound-based interpretation of Doug Aitken’s current retrospective at the Modern Art Museum…

According to Wikipedia, one of the earliest recorded uses of macramé-style knots as decoration appeared in the carvings of the Babylonians and Assyrians and macramé was most popular during the…

Who knew that it’s National Coloring Book Day? In the seventies, it was all about Doodle Art, but suddenly coloring books are the new craze. According to the official National…

Earlier this summer, Houston’s Menil Collection announced that on Monday, February 26, 2018 the institution plans to close its main building for eight months for maintenance work that includes the sanding, staining and…

Although best known for their work in film, many artists of all mediums have been highly influenced by Sam Shepard and Jeanne Moreau—a few millennials and tons of baby boomers.…

The new-media arts organization Rhizome has opened its annual call for applications for its microgrants, which range from $500-$1500 per project. It’s truly an open call, though of course Rhizome’s ideal…

San Antonio native and long-time folksinger Tish Hinojosa aims to convert her childhood house into a “Home For The Arts,” featuring intimate concerts, art exhibitions, songwriting and music workshops, kids…

The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) has announced that they have been gifted 31 portrait photographs created by American filmmaker and photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. The works, which are large-format prints from Greenfield-Sanders’ Latino List…

In 2005, future President Trump created a drawing of the Manhattan skyline for a charity auction promoting worldwide literacy, reports artnet News. Last night it sold at auction for $29,184.…

Hills Snyder’s current solo exhibition at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA) in Lubbock includes a big 1992 piece titled How Big is Your Love?; it’s a multi-panel,…

Good grief! On top of the announcement that the Menil Collection will be closed for eight months, beginning February 26, for repairs and a general spiffing up, now it has…

Today, via the Mayor’s Office of the City of Houston comes the news that Houston’s Office of Cultural Affairs has announced the recipients for this coming fiscal year’s $3.5 million in…

Americans for the Arts honored 49 outstanding public arts projects created in 2016 through the Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review program, the only national program that specifically recognizes…

In conjunction with the Dallas Museum of Art’s current sweeping print show Visions of America: Three Centuries of Prints from the National Gallery of Art, the museum will host the Guerrilla Girls’ ‘Käthe Kollwitz’…