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For the 13th year, the City of Austin has organized the People’s Gallery, on view at City Hall for a full year. Visitors may vote for the “People’s Choice” through…

The Contemporary Austin has announced that this summer they are bringing two large-scale Ai Weiwei sculptures to Austin. One of the works, Iron Tree Trunk (2015), will be on view at The Contemporary Austin’s…

Late last week, Houston native Solange Knowles presented “An Ode To,” a performance art piece at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. Part installation, part dance, and part concert, the event was…

The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has announced its 2017 season of ‘til Midnight at the Nasher. It’s free, it happens on every third Friday of the month from 6 pm to…

It isn’t truly springtime in Dallas until the SpeedBump Art Tour takes over Oak Cliff (or, “the Cliff,” as it is affectionately called)—and this year’s festival is running today, May 20,…

Art League Houston (ALH) has announced the selection of Dr. Kheli R. Willetts as the new Executive Director effective June 1, 2017. Dr. Willetts joins ALH following a five-month nationwide…

This week, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft announced the new class of residents that will participate in their upcoming residency cycle, running from September 2017 to August 2018. The new residents include: Corey…

Yesterday, May 17, the State Legislature introduced Texas House Resolution 2132, a bill entitled “2018 Texas State Artist honorees.” Congratulations go out to Fort Worth’s Sedrick Huckaby, who has been…

It’s that time of year again: 500X’s Hot and Sweaty open show in Dallas is upon us. (500X is Dallas’ oldest artist-run co-op.) The call for entries went out yesterday…

For fans of American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, producer of the organic coffee “David Lynch Signature Cup,” and founder of a Transcendental Meditation foundation—rejoice! The Museum of Fine Arts,…

The Brownsville Museum of Fine Art will host a new public sculpture at its location just blocks from the Texas-Mexico border; the artist Ron Fondaw will create a large work “centering…

The fourth cycle of the City of Austin’s TEMPO public art program has announced its 2017 participating artists. This year, nine artists or artist teams have been selected to create…

Last week, the White House announced that William Allman, the White House’s chief curator, will retire on June 1. Allman, who has worked in the organization’s Curator’s Office for 41 years, has served as…

On Sunday, May 21, Ro2 Art in Dallas is hosting a panel discussion on feminism and contemporary art, and given the panelists, it promises to be a smart and lively…

In June, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will open Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish, an exhibition of two works by Rist that have been recently acquired by the…

Tomorrow, May 13, is Mother’s Day and museums and other art spaces across Texas want to be a part of your festivities with mom! See a list below of art-related happenings: Houston…

Lawndale Art Center‘s annual very big Big Show in Houston is now open for applications (which is free nowadays); this is its umpteenth year, and every artist from the region you’ve…

Earlier this week, it was widely reported that two students at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland had claimed responsibility for leaving a pineapple in the middle of an exhibition…

The Texas Budget Conference Committee is meeting today, and this makes it the last day this session to urge them to vote for fully funding for the Texas Commission on…

Every spring, museum professionals and lawyers get together at a conference called “Legal Issues in Museum Administration,” organized by the American Law Institute and cosponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. This…