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A framing store in Florida is putting on an exhibition called “Apes That Paint,” featuring works by Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s chimp, among other “celebrity animals,” reports the Daily Mail. Now…

Burning Man is a massive art and music festival that takes place annually in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Featuring large-scale installations and temporary structures, the event has served as inspiration for…

This week, Discovery Green and Houston First Corporation announced that they have commissioned a site-specific work by Dallas artist collective The Color Condition (Sunny Sliger and Marianne Newsom). Set to open August 17…

Earlier this week, Abilene residents noticed unusual decoration on a man’s backyard shed, reports BigCountryHomepage. Tacked up in a salon-style, detective crazy wall fashion on the side of the building and…

The City of Houston has launched an artist residency program. It’s seeking three artists for this round, “…a new, 16-week community-impact artist residency will pair Houston artists with city and partner agencies…

Sugar Land’s Clements High School celebrates after incoming sophomore Adrian Pacini wins top filmmaking honors at the 2017 International Thespian Festival for his short film “Beyond” (below). For almost 80…

A house in Richmond, Texas (30 miles southwest of Houston) has come up for sale and the pictures of its interior have gone viral. Several websites have reported the owner…

Hector Rodriguez is an elementary school teacher and the creator of the El Peso Hero series of comics, which has recently gained much attention for its Latino superhero who fights…

Two weeks ago the Dallas Museum of Art hosted a Guinness Record costume contest for the most people dressed like Frida Kahlo. It was a bit controversial, but popular, too. It’s…

Southern Living, the magazine that focuses on Southern cooking, Southern homes, and Southern hospitality, has expanded its definition of Southern life to focus on the upcoming third annual HUE (Houston…

Today, The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation announced that Christina Rees, Glasstire’s Editor-in-Chief, has been awarded the new Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism. For its inaugural year, sixteen arts writers were…

An Austin funeral home, Distinctive Life, has installed a sculpture of the letters, “L,” “V,” and “E,” leaving room for selfies to finish the word “LIVE.” It has been displayed…

Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art recently announced that they are starting a new residency offering emerging artists the opportunity to create a sound-based artwork to be featured in the museum’s January…

On Wednesday of last week, the United States filed a civil complaint against arts and crafts giant Hobby Lobby, claiming that they, via the United Arab Emirates and Israel, had illegally smuggled…

In Corsicana, Texas (population 24,000), there is an international residency program for artists and writers called 100W. There are fully funded residencies, partially funded residencies, and non-funded residencies. But applications…

Barney Smith has been working on his cultishly famous Toilet Seat Art Museum in San Antonio’s Alamo Heights for more than half a century. But after a extremely long plumber’s…

This morning Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s director Marla Price announced the retirement this summer of Chief Curator Michael Auping. Auping has been with the museum since 1993. Prior to…

This Saturday, July 15, from noon to 6 p.m. is the 6th installment of Dallas Gallery Day. This year there are 30 galleries participating, including all the usual suspects such…

Yesterday, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced the acquisition of Yayoi Kusama’s All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016), one of the artist’s signature Infinity Mirror…

The 21st installment of QFest, Houston’s international city-wide LGBTQ film festival, runs from Thursday July 27 through Monday July 31. Artistic director Kristian Salinas does the programming, and venues include The…