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During yesterday’s World Cup final match in Moscow between France and Croatia, four individuals ran onto the pitch dressed in police-style uniforms. While one of the individuals was tackled on…

This coming week, on Tuesday, July 17, 2018, Houston’s Rothko Chapel will host a program on immigration and family separations. Designed as a non-partisan event, Immigration and Family Separation Crisis: A Call…

Southern Graphics Council International has announced that it is now accepting proposals for its 2019 North Texas conference. Set to run March 6-9, 2019 at a number of supporting institutions across…

This week marked the opening for Havel Ruck Projects’ Open House, a new interactive, temporary public sculpture set in the Heritage Society’s Sam Houston Park in downtown Houston. The art duo…

Glasstire is proud to report on Houston native Mel Chin and his various art projects across the globe (here, here, here, and here) and now he’s taken over Times Square…

This July marks the conclusion of three Texas-based open calls. See below to be sure you get your work submitted on time! The Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art’s open call…

This weekend and throughout the summer, Project Row Houses (PRH) in Houston is hosting a number of films, programs, classes, workshops, and other events aimed at highlighting the skills and…

The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC), in collaboration with California Lawyers for the Arts (CLA) and Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (TALA), will convene the Texas…

Lawndale Art Center in Houston recently named the three artists selected as its 2018-2019 Artist Studio Program participants: Robert Hodge, Julia Barbosa Landois, and John Pluecker. Now in its 13th year,…

Warhol Foundation Comes Through Again for Texas Arts Orgs. More at glasstire.com

At the end of June, Austin’s city council approved a $925 million bond package that will go before the city’s voters this November. Meant to address the concerns of the…

The Dallas-based company Braintone Art’s software allows anyone to create a piece of unique art using their brain’s focus picked up through an EEG headset, reports Dallas Innovates. On its…

This past November, Nick Barbee launched Galveston’s Art Lending Library (ALL), a project that allows members to “check out” artworks in ten-week periods, as if they were books in a library.…

Cary Leibowitz: The Museum Show is up at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) through August 26. The Houston Chronicle describes as the exhibition as “the funniest thing in a…

The Houston-based arts organization FotoFest announced this week that it is now accepting submissions for the upcoming exhibition, Seeing Harvey: Personal Stories, Public Responses, set to run from September 6 through November…

This coming week, from July 11-13, 2018, the Rockport Center for the Arts is hosting a workshop teaching artists how to use Instagram to market themselves and their work. Taught by Humberto…

This Sunday, July 8, 2018, the Texas-based civic engagement organization Jolt Texas is organizing a caravan from Austin to Brownsville with the goal of using art to protest family separations on the…

Dan Havel and Dean Ruck are on a roll. With their recent installation of Ripple, Havel and Ruck have transformed another building into a work of art. Earlier still, they…

Since Hurricane Harvey, cities along Texas’ coast have dealt with the post-storm fallout in a number of ways: in Rockport, a small coastal town in one of the state’s hardest-hit…

Over the past couple years, local governments in a number of Texas cities have commissioned artists to adapt their work to various “urban canvases”: parking meters, recycling trucks, electrical boxes,…