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The Art Museum of South Texas should be proud. Its successful exhibition of Dorothy Hood: The Color of Being/ El Color del Ser received the 2018 Bronze MUSE Award in…

Anish Kapoor, whose massive Cloud Column sculpture was very recently added to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s collection and outdoor campus, is suing the National Rifle Association for using images…

Big Medium‘s East Austin Studio Tour (EAST) is a free, annual, self-guided art event spanning November 10-11 and 17-18, 2018 from 11am-6pm. EAST provides opportunities for the public to meet…

Artadia, which supports visual artists with unrestricted financial awards and a network of opportunities, has active awards programs in the following cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York…

For the third year running, Austin non-profit Big Medium (which brings us the Texas Biennial, the Tito’s Prize, and the East Austin Studio Tour and the West Austin Studio Tour)…

New York-based visual artist Pamela Council has created a big fountain at Houston’s Miller Outdoor Theatre at Hermann Park to celebrate Juneteenth. (If you don’t know what Juneteenth is, go…

Glasstire is pleased to announce the appointment of Brandon Zech as News Editor. Over the past three years, Zech has served as the publication’s Assistant Editor, regularly publishing news, podcasts,…

The “Art All Night” festival in Trenton, New Jersey ended abruptly after 22 people were injured and one was killed very early Sunday morning, reports the New York Times and…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) recently opened an exhibition featuring artworks that Houston-based curator Clint Willour has collected and subsequently gifted to the museum over the past 40 years. Willour’s…

Fusebox Festival, the Austin-based non-profit organization that annually produces a large-scale art and performance festival by the same name, announced this week that it is hiring two new staffers. Now looking…

Earlier today, at its annual convention in Denver, the organization Americans for the Arts announced that this year it honors Houston artist Dixie Friend Gay for her 2017 public artwork Books of a…

The Cowboy Artists of America (CAA), “the vanguard of the Western art revival” that began in the 1960s, have announced its first annual online show and sale, Cowboy Trails: Art…

Project Row Houses in Houston is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and part of that year-round celebration includes PRH’s trip to Washington D.C. in August to host a tour…

Produced by Rachael Anderson, Abby Bagby, John Logan, and Liz Trosper, Dallas’ ArtSkool returns! Beginning tonight with its Preskool Soiree, the weekly series is free and open to beginners to art…

Houston collector William J. “Bill” Hill died on Tuesday, June 12, 2018 from a heart attack after a long illness. Hill was a legendary, irascible and controversial character, most likely…

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center has announced the official film lineup for the 40th annual CineFestival sponsored by the San Antonio Film Commission. This year’s festival will take place July…

The Menil Collection in Houston closed its main building in February of this year for needed updates and renovations, and today announced its reopening date: September 22, 2018. Via the Menil: “The…

The Nasher Sculpture Center announced the winners of the Nasher 2018 Artist Microgrants, a program which provides annual financial support to North Texas artists through the distribution of small-sum grants…

The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) recently announced the nine artists who will participate in the 2018-2019 round of its residency program. Open nationally to artists who create work using…

Not too long after Luis Purón relocated to Rockport, Texas to accept the position of executive director of the Rockport Center for the Arts (RCA), Hurricane Harvey hit, devastating the…