Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in Texas, and therefore the freeing of…
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The City of Houston just unveiled its 7th recycling truck designed by an artist: Wet Cement, by Iva Kinnaird, is a truck wrapped in images of handprints and other designs carved…
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Houston Public Media’s Jen Rice put out a radio news spot yesterday, interviewing Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) Director Gary Tinterow, Contemporary Arts Museum (CAMH) Director Bill Arning, and…
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Gulf Coast, the University of Houston’s literary journal, recently announced The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing, a new award named in honor of the late Toni Beauchamp, who was…
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Go see it now! Houston’s Menil Collection is going to shut its doors for eight whole months while its floors are sanded and refinished, reports the Houston Chronicle’s Molly Glentzer.…
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has approved a grant of $20,000 to support Glasstire in its second round of funding for FY 2017. That’s great news for Texas…
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Today Blaffer Art Museum and the University of Houston announced that Houston’s own Toby Kamps is named its new director at Blaffer, after a long international search. Kamps — onetime curator…
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The Power Station in Dallas has a new artist exchange residency program called PROXIMIDAD, which has two artists spending time in both Dallas and Guadalajara, Mexico, and culminating in exhibitions…
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There’s a new nonprofit in Denton called the Denton Music & Arts Collective (DMAC) and first on its agenda is health care assistance for local artists and musicians, reports the…
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As of yesterday, June 11, 2017, Battleship Texas is closed indefinitely due to a leak in the ship’s hull. This isn’t the first time the battleship has taken on water; because…
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For those who have been missing the artifacts and lore of cattle-raising need wait no longer. After almost seven months of renovation, The Cattle Raisers Museum has reopened, reports The…
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Splendora Gardens, the historic studio compound of the artists James Surls and Charmaine Locke located in Cleveland, Texas, has undergone a change in leadership which will undoubtedly result in a change in…
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Any Houstonian art lover, as well as art lovers throughout the world, knows that we were blessed to be in the company of art curator Walter Hopps. We are now…
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The very cool MASS Gallery in Austin is heading into the fifth year for its Hotbox residency program. The gallery space becomes the artist’s studio for a month during the summer. The deadline…
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The national non-profit organization Artadia has awarded over $3 million to more than 300 artists in the past 18 years. In 2003, the city of Houston was added to its…
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It seems like the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has been celebrating its campus redevelopment project for ages. Last year, it held a huge block party for the groundbreaking…
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Today Lawndale Art Center in Houston announced the resident artists for its 12th Lawndale Artist Studio Program, 2017-2018. The artists are Regina Agu, Shannon Crider, and Morganne Nikole and Bria Lauren of…
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Houston’s Project Row Houses has announced that it has been awarded an $85,000 grant from the California-based non-profit Metabolic Studio. Eureka Gilkey, PRH’s executive director, stated: Project Row Houses has worked diligently to enrich the community of…
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Hyperallergic reported today that Banksy had promised to give away a new limited edition print to voters in his hometown UK region (the Bristol area) who voted against the conservative…
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Lauren Kelley has been named executive director at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling in New York, reports Artnews. Kelley joined the museum in 2013 as part…