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The 21st installment of QFest, Houston’s international city-wide LGBTQ film festival, runs from Thursday July 27 through Monday July 31. Artistic director Kristian Salinas does the programming, and venues include The…

Aurora, the Dallas biennial public art event of light, video and sound, has announced its curators and theme for its fifth version. Dooeun Choi, Justine Ludwig, and Nadim Samman will…

Houston’s Project Row Houses (PRH) recently announced the recipients of its 2017 Summer Studios residency. The program, which is structured around a six-week-long residency, brings in college and university students and teaches them…

“Even if people are not painting something hands-on, they’re at least seeing someone be creative and inspire them,” Corpus Christi spray paint muralist Jeremy Flores told the Caller-Times. “People will…

The Dallas-based biennial show of art, light, and sound called AURORA will have its fifth installment in 2018, and it has grown so much since its debut in 2010 that the organizers…

Since 1935, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has been collecting and displaying works created by artists of our time. Like many museums with wide-reaching collections, however, SFMOMA has its…

The City of Austin Cultural Arts Division has announced an upcoming workshop for artists called GET NOTICED! PR & Marketing for ATX Creatives, which takes place in three parts in three different…

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has partnered with West Elm, retailer of casual chic and not-quite-cheap home furnishings, to create a Rauschenberg collection of stuff for your very own home. They…

In conjunction with the Sawyer Yards Second Saturday open studios, Houston’s Fresh Arts is presenting guided studio tours once a month for the summer. The featured building tour for Saturday,…

This week, the University of Texas’ Blanton Museum of Art told Glasstire that they have acquired Vincent Valdez’s large-scale paintings The City I and The City II. These pieces were introduced to the public…

The new Houston Police Department Southwest Police Station needs some art, and the City of Houston has put out a call for artists to submit work to class up the…

A few weeks ago, conceptual and visual artist Mel Chin was honored by Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development with the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award, reports the…

Almost all Texas museums are open today (some close early, but check your local listings), although many galleries are not. If you are lucky enough to have the day off,…

Austin-based artist Scott Proctor announced recently through a Kickstarter campaign that he plans to open East Side Pot Shop in the city’s east side. Serving as a ceramics studio, project space, and gallery, Proctor…

Well, most of us missed it. Trevor Noah’s Daily Show presented a New York pop-up exhibition (June 16-18) of the The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library. Based mainly on…

The City of Austin is trying to address skyrocketing rents, if not for artists, then at least for arts nonprofits. This month, Austin’s Cultural Arts Division announced the new Art Space Assistance Program…

Earlier this month, the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin announced that they received a $20,000 grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project to fund the preservation of their Goddess…

The Holocaust Museum Houston recently announced plans to renovate and rebuild their campus as part of a $49.4 million expansion campaign. The current 21,000 square-foot building, which sits in Houston’s Midtown district, will be…

In 1938 Nelson Rockefeller commissioned twin works from Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse for his Manhattan penthouse, and this week it looks as though the two works will be reunited…

The National Endowment for the Arts, in its second funding round for US cities for 2017, is helping with funding on an ongoing Austin initiative called Playable Austin. Playable Austin is…