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Robert Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter died yesterday at his home in Manhattan at the age of 73, reports The New York Times. He died of complications from…

  Most art programs teach artists how to make art, how to think about art, and how to talk about art, but few teach how to get art out into…

If you haven’t already heard, for Glasstire’s third installment of our Off Road speaker series, we’re bringing acclaimed California artist Catherine Opie to Houston this Saturday, April 29, for a…

  There is a relatively new online site, ArtStartArt, exclusively selling work by university level art students. The gist of its purpose is to allow art students to make some…

Artadia, a New York-based non-profit that grants visual artists “unrestricted, merit-based awards,” recently announced that applications are now live for Houston’s 2017 Artadia Awards. Ultimately, after five artists are selected as finalists, two…

The Santa Fe-based art collective Meow Wolf is starting a new project in a former Caterpillar plant in South Santa Fe. The space will become art production facility welding, fabrication,…

The City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division recently announced that Rehab El Sadek will serve as the inaugural artist-in-residence for the city’s new residency program. Starting in May, El Sadek will spend…

Yesterday, April 21, marked the premiere of the inaugural EARTHxFilm festival at Dallas’ Fair Park. Founded by Trammell S. Crow and Michael Cain (as opposed to Michael Caine) and presented by Earth…

The annual West Austin Studio Tour, which is a program of Big Medium (also of the East Austin Studio Tour and the Texas Biennial), is in its sixth year and takes…

Today through Sunday (April 21-23, rain or shine). the 2017 Texas SandFest is taking place in Port Aransas, Texas. The event, which began in 1997, turned into a 5-day festival…

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the recipients of its annual artist awards—the DeGolyer, the Kimbrough, and the Dozier—and this year 11 artists have been chosen. First a refresher on what these three…

Austin’s Umlauf Sculpture Garden is currently hosting the exhibit Mentoring a Muse: Charles Umlauf & Farrah Fawcett. The show focuses on the long-standing relationship between the two artists; while a…

Those who were fortunate enough to see the 2010 exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (or elsewhere) know that Hendricks is the…

The Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA, org. 2003) will hold its 15th Annual Texas Art Fair and Symposium on Early Texas Art in Fort Worth…

If you think about it long enough, everything is a sort of performance art, but not everyone knows to call it that. But broadcaster Alex Jones is now a “performance…

Yesterday, people across the world celebrated Easter by taking Holy Communion, a religious ritual that served as Leonardo da Vinci’s subject for his 1490s fresco The Last Supper in the Convent of Santa Maria…

Of course, watching a movie can’t change the world, but it can start educating folks. Tonight at 7:30pm, Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will screen Gathering Our Hearts At Standing Rock,…

Last weekend, the Houston Art Car Parade celebrated its 30th anniversary with a profusion of events, culminating in a procession of more than 250 vehicles led by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Grand Marshal Cheech…

This week, Arturo Di Modica, the artist behind Wall Street’s infamous Charging Bull sculpture, called for the removal of the recently installed Fearless Girl statue. In case you haven’t been following the story,…

The Galveston Art Center is hosting a photography workshop led by exhibiting photographer Steve R. Fisher on Saturday, April 15th, from 2 pm – 4 pm. The workshop, part of GAC’s Exhibit-Connect Workshop…