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Choreographer, dancer, and visual artist Trisha Brown died on Saturday in San Antonio. She had been treated for vascular dementia since 2011, reports The New York Times. A founding member…

Last week, we reported on the confluence of art and advertising in terms of artist-deigned billboards. California-based artist Karen Fiorito falls into this tradition with her recent billboard artwork ridiculing President Donald…

Shane Patrick Boyle, the founder of Zine Fest Houston, died this weekend. A creative writing graduate from the University of Houston, Boyle split his time between Houston and Mena, Arkansas, where he cared for…

Last year we reported on the opening of Liquid Crystal, a sculpture created for San Antonio’s Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center by London-based Jason Bruges Studio. The sculpture was almost universally…

Today, March 18, Austin art space Pump Project is hosting a virtual reality experience by Flatsitter, an interdisciplinary collaborative that uses video, film, software programming, performance and installation to comment on…

Culture Hole, the strange and nifty underground vault within the Power Station (Dallas) that’s become an art space curated by artists Gregory Ruppe and Jeff Gibbons, is holding one of its…

Queer performance artist Abel Azcona participated in Houston’s Experimental Action Festival a few weeks ago and at the 2014 Lone Star Performance Explosion festival, which Glasstire’s Bill Davenport wrote about…

In late April, the first three shows brought in by new Galveston Art Center curator Dennis Nance will debut. It’s a solid lineup: Jules Buck Jones, Calder Kamin, and James…

President Donald Trump released a $1.1 trillion budget outline today, which includes eliminating four independent cultural agencies — the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the…

The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (PPHM), the “Smithsonian with a Texas Accent,” in Canyon, Texas, will be hosting a walking tour of the Dreamland Cemetery on March 25 from 3-6pm. Participants…

The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio is hosting a half week of free family and kid-friendly workshops, events, and tours for this Spring Break. This Wednesday and Thursday museum…

On Thursday, March 16 and Friday, March 17, the Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will present the world premiere of Some Light Emerges, a musical celebration of Houston’s social history, visual…

Researchers from Germany’s University of Freiburg recently published a study claiming that a majority of people faced with images of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa say that she is, in fact, smiling. For the study,…

Many towns have artists who extol their city’s virtues (think Gonzo247’S “Houston is Inspired” mural), but artist Chance Bailey Johnson truly loves El Paso. Johnson explains: We have so many…

Every now and then, we notice trends in job openings across Texas. About a year ago, multiple organizations in Houston were in need of an executive director, and just last…

The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) recently announced grants to support artists and organizations’ projects throughout 2017. A total of $309,500 has been distributed between three granting programs: the NALAC…

In anticipation of its upcoming exhibition, From Selfie to Self-Expression (March 31-May 30), London’s Saatchi Gallery and Huawei launched the #SaatchiSelfie competition this past January and there are only two…

  Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio has announced the four SA artists who are going to Berlin in 2017/18 for three months as part of its residency program partnership with Künstlerhaus…

British abstract painter Howard Hodgkin died today at the age of 84, reports The Guardian. Well-known for his vivid colors and broad brushstrokes that often crept out onto the frame,…

Louise Hopkins Underwood, the namesake and co-founder of Lubbock’s Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA), passed away yesterday, March 7th, at the age of 97. In addition to being a…