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Josue Romero, a 19-year-old Southwest School of Art student and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient was detained this past week, The Guardian reports. Romero was initially stopped by officials…

If you need something to do in Houston today, look no further—there are four artist talks happening across the city: 2PM: A talk with some of the photographers included in FotoFest’s INTERNATIONAL DISCOVERIES…

  Michael Peranteau, director of Art League Houston since 2012, has announced that he is stepping down in May 2017. Glasstire spoke with Peranteau on his five eventful years at the…

For ten years now, Southeast Texas has been hosting the annual Boomtown Film & Music Festival in venues throughout Beaumont, including the Art Museum of Southeast Texas and the Dishman…

We’ve been hearing about the Museum of Street Culture in Dallas for a few years now, and it’s meant to open in 2018. Robert Wilonsky of the Dallas Morning News…

Applications for the next round of Houston’s Lawndale Art Center’s Artist Studio Program (ASP) are due April 1, but this evening, February 16 at 6pm, Lawndale will host an Info…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced the dates and schedule for the 13th annual Houston Jewish Film Festival, in which it participates. The primary venue for the festival…

Art historian Victoria Coates has been selected by President Trump to be the National Security Council’s Senior Director for Strategic Assessments, reports Hyperallergic. Coates received her master’s degree from Williams…

The Dallas Museum of Art is now accepting applications for three different awards that will dole out more than $10,000 to artists living in working in Texas and the southwestern…

This week, Austin will host both the OUTsider Fest (February 15-19) and the No Idea Festival (February 16-19). OUTsider celebrates the “bold originality and creative nonconformity of the LGBTQ+ communities”…

The arts organization Big Medium in Austin has announced some details for the 2017 Texas Biennial, including dates for its open call. This will be the sixth edition of the Biennial,…

Okay, maybe it’s not the new big thing for anyone who remembers Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), founded by Robert Rauschenberg, Billy Klüver, and others in the sixties. But…

Today marks the reopening of the permanent collection galleries in UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art. Closed for the past year, museum workers have been busily cleaning and restoring the galleries,…

CounterCurrent, the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts’ annual performance festival, has just announced the lineup for its 2017 program, which will run April 18-23. Utilizing…

The San Antonio Magazine lists tons of stuff to do to celebrate Valentine’s Day, including an “Art Party: The Art of Love” tonight (February 10) at the San Antonio Museum…

Project Row Houses (PRH) in Houston and the University of Houston Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts (CotA) are teaming up to launch a pilot fellowship program that (via PRH)…

The ringleader behind the 2015 armed assault on the Garland, Texas exhibition of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that left two attackers dead was sentenced to 30 years in prison…

The Beaumont Enterprise reports that McFaddin-Ward Visitors Center will host a free lecture by Louise Reilly Sacco on Thursday evening, February 9, at 6:30pm. Sacco is the “Permanent Acting Interim…

This Saturday, February 11 at 11 a.m., the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas will host a panel discussion featuring some familiar international art-world names: artist Lynda Benglis; Connie Butler, curator at the…

Austin filmmaker Sam Wainwright Douglas’ new documentary, Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film, is one of 32 selected from filmmakers around the world to be screened at the…