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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…

Marfa artist Ann Marie Nafziger, who received her MFA degree in painting from the University of Houston in 2008, ran for mayor of Marfa, the West Texas town that most…

This Sunday the Dallas Museum Art will kick off its new film series, The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. This is an excellent companion to the DMA’s current show México 1900–1950: Diego…

The 6th annual West Austin Studio Tour (WEST) returns for two weekends, May 13-14 and May 20-21. Big Medium is celebrating the 6th edition of WEST with 331 participants: 172…

The The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant program is currently seeking applicants for its 2017 grant process! The application, which closes on May 17, is open to writers who…

Okay, Plainview, Texas is not quite technically part of the Panhandle, but a city located in Llano Estacado in the Southwest U.S. Boasting a population of 22,194 (at the 2010…

A Blade of Grass, a Brooklyn-based non-profit that works to foster the practice of socially engaged art, recently announced their 2017 ABOG Fellows for Socially Engaged Art. Among them are Houston and…

Today, May 6, two major festivals are taking over Houston: First up is the Menilfest and the Gulf Coast Indie Book Fair running from 11AM-6PM at the Menil Collection. The program will feature…

A little more than a week after Mother’s Day, there will be a panel discussion taking place in San Antonio featuring artists and guests who will talk about “the tangled intersection…

Toilets that have been spray painted gold and labeled “Take a Trump” have been popping up across the country to commemorate President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office. A stencil…

Today, Heritage Auctions in Dallas announced that yesterday one of Norman Rockwell’s most iconic works sold for a Rockwell record of $1,332,500 during Heritage’s latest American Art auction. The instantly recognizable…

Neo-Expressionist painter, sculptor, and jazz drummer A.R. Penck died Tuesday, May 2, at the age of 77 of “a lengthy illness,” reports Artnews. Like his colleagues Georg Baselitz and Jörg…

Art League Houston has been choosing an artist of the year and arts patron of the year for an award since 1983, and this year’s recipients have just been announced.…

For its seventh continuous year, the CineMarfa Film Festival will begin its programming tomorrow, May 4, and continue through May 7 in Marfa, Texas. CineMarfa, which emphasizes the intersection between…

In 2015 the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas announced its new microgrant program, which annually distributes small-sum grants to North Texas artists. As it does at the beginning of each May,…

There are all sorts of reasons to explain the plethora of “art barns” on university campuses, ranging from the structure was a former stage for building WWII planes to the…

Last week, Art Market Productions sent out an email announcing that applications are now open for the seventh edition of the Texas Contemporary art fair. Set for October 19-22 at…