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Now in its 15th year, the annual festival is again bringing in performers and groups from across the world, while still keeping a place for local and regional acts on its roster.

The DMA names Dr. Nicole R. Myers as the new Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art.

In the spirit of Mardi Gras, the island's two main art spaces — the Galveston Arts Center and the Galveston Artist Residency — have found their own ways to embrace the event's many traditions. 

The McNay Art Museum Print Fair in San Antonio returns for its 23rd year in early March.

The four individuals, who will inhabit the organization's live/work spaces, will use their time in the Panhandle to hone their craft and create new projects and bodies of work.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation has opened up emergency grants to US-based visual artists who have suffered significant losses after natural or man-made disasters.

"Charles Pebworth had this inherent ability to pick out the thing that was best in you, and to elevate it. And that’s why his students loved him."

As per usual, performances for Marfa Myths will span venues across the town, including the Marfa Studio of the Arts, the Chinati Foundation's Arena, The Capri, and the Marfa Visitor Center, among others.

The gallery, which has since 2013 been located in the Flatbed Press building in East Austin, came to a crossroads last year when Flatbed found out that its master lease on the building wouldn't be renewed, in order to make way for redevelopment.

Erin Cluley Gallery has announced its move to Dallas' Design District, with the new space slated to open on April 6.

This is a return to UT Austin for Ms. Stimpert.

Organizations from across America — including all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico — were chosen from the NEA's applicant pool, and were given more than $27 million in funding.

Pride Houston, a 40-plus year-old LGBTQIA organization, is launching the Pride Houston Art Program to highlight Houston-based LGBTQIA+ artists.

Bill Lassiter was known as a patron who managed to collect some of the city's best artists on a modest income.

SXSW has announced seven experiential and conceptual art installations to be exhibited in its third annual Art Program, which takes place in March during the conference.

These works, which are now on view in SAMA's contemporary arts galleries, help flesh out the institution's ever-growing holdings of works by living artists. 

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $20 million gift from The Moody Foundation of Galveston, Texas, to transform the museum’s exterior spaces.

The four days of the event will include workshops, lectures, panel discussions, a keynote lecture by Mari Carmen Ramirez, the Wortham Curator of Latino American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and other opportunities to meet with conference attendees.

Inspired by the abject-absurd/trash-irony sensibility of Harmony Korine's earlier movies, the 24-year-old Hayden Pedigo made and released a video on his Facebook page that went viral.

"My advice to people is to look up. I hope people really take time to take it all in, and smile, before they look back down at their grocery lists."