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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…

Partnering with Houston Arts Alliance, Fresh Arts, and the City of Houston, Elia and Noah Quiles of UP Art Studio’s “Mini Murals” project was greenlit in 2015 and kicked off…

Artpace, the San Antonio artist residency, announced today its inaugural Curatorial Residency program. Set to occur every fall and spring, the six-week program will bring in curators from around the world to conduct…

A couple of months ago, Glasstire reported on the ambitious project of opening the Contemporary Art Museum Plainview (CAMP) in a small town of 22,000. It is scheduled to open…

Houston-based FotoFest International has opened up registration for its well-known “Meeting Place” portfolio review sessions, where photographic artists show their work to no fewer than 16 photography professionals per session…

At the last Artist Town Hall, presented by Artists Take Action (ATAHouston) at the Station Museum in early April, breakout sessions led to further meetings, ideas, and activism. They are…

Earlier today, a court in Madrid ordered that Spanish artist Salvador Dalí’s remains be exhumed to settle a paternity claim made by a woman born in 1956. The woman, Pilar Abel Martínez, has been…

Mayor Sylvester Turner is calling for Houston’s best ideas to endorse for the national Our Town grant program. Here is the statement from the City’s Cultural Affairs Office: The National…

Yesterday, June 24, 2017, from 4-6 p.m, a group of protestors gathered outside of the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston to protest the museum’s current exhibition of photographs by Andres…

The Dallas Museum of Art and Dallas’ Latino Center for Leadership Development have partnered on an interesting goal: to set the Guinness World Record for the biggest gathering of people dressed like…

Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the arts in America, recently released a report detailing the economic impact nonprofit arts and cultural organizations have on the American…

Denton native and former owner of Voertman’s bookstore died Wednesday, reports the Denton Record-Chronicle. He was 88 years old. The Record-Chronicle writes: In 1986, the Greater Denton Arts Council honored…

Houston will host its Houston Pride Parade this Saturday, June 24, waaaay before Dallas’ “Lakewood Brewing Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade presented by T-Mobile” in mid-September and well before the…

Today, the Marfa-based Chinati Foundation announced that the 2017 Chinati Weekend will take place Friday, October 6 to Sunday, October 8. Like past years, the weekend will feature open viewings of Chinati’s…

This Saturday, Corpus Christi will host its first Texas Body Paint Festival, according to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. The event begins at 6pm and attendees may choose to have their…

The line between art and fashion has been blurry ever since Hugo Ball put on a cardboard suit to perform in Cabaret Voltaire. From Dalí-influenced lobster dresses to set and costume designs for…

A group called Creative Waco partnered with two State Representatives to host a juried art exhibition featuring artwork by 52 artists from Waco and McLennan County, reports Waco’s KWTX. Waco…

Last week, amongst a flurry of announcements on new arts projects, Sacramento’s Mayor Darrell Steinberg announced the hiring of Jonathon Glus to lead the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission (SMAC). Glus, who was…

Although President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, the freeing of slaves was neither encouraged nor enforced in Texas until June 19, 1865. Oh, Texas. Check…

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin recently announced that it will receive 83 artworks from The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC). Based in New York…