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Two days ago (on Friday the 13th), Rice University students and staff discovered that both a mural and a memorial on campus had been vandalized. The mural, which had been fastened…

Those of us who are familiar with Houston’s performance art scene know that something was missing last year — specifically, the Lone Star Explosion, AKA “Houston’s International Performance Art Biennial.” Founded…

President-elect Donald Trump is not only having a difficult time getting performers to show up at his inauguration, it seems that visual artists are having an equally icky response. Writer…

Big news! The Dallas Contemporary and the Ukraine Ministry of Culture have announced that the Dallas Contemporary will organize the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, which opens in May.…

On January 24 at 6:30pm, Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will host a celebratory reception for the Idea Fund’s twelve Round 9 (2017) grant recipients. Each artist or collaborative will talk…

Today the Texas Cultural Trust announced its 2017 honorees for the biennial Texas Medal of Arts Awards. The award ceremonies will take place February 21-22 “for the first time ever at…

A chapel in Dallas was vandalized last week in what the church believes was a response to comments made by its senior pastor, Reverend Dr. Neil G Cazares-Thomas, on a…

A few days ago we reported that Austin artist and UT Austin Associate Professor of Art Beili Liu had been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant in the Foundation’s latest round of national gifts…

Texas women are getting some prestigious grants! (See yesterday’s news post.) The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced that Aurora Picture Show Curator Mary Magsamen has received…

Congratulations to UT Austin Associate Professor of Art Beili Liu, who has been awarded the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. Established in 1993, the grant aims to recognize artists “creating work of exceptional quality”…

This week, the City of Austin announced that it is launching a new nine-month long artist-in-residence program. The program, which was developed through the city’s Idea Accelerator initiative, plans to…

Austin’s Farewell Books, the progressive bookshop and art gallery founded in February 2013, will shut its doors at 913 East Cesar Chavez Street at the end of this month. Founders…

Artpace in San Antonio has announced this year’s schedule for its three international artist-in-residency cycles. As usual, there are three artists per cycle: one from Texas, one from the United States…

Glasstire has followed the ever-goofy (his word is “whimsy”) artist/furniture-maker/sculptor/architect Dan Phillips for quite a while (here, here, here, and many other postings), most recently on his involvement with Houston’s…

When Houstonian James Kenner took his Rodin sculpture up to Fort Worth for a taping of PBS’ Antiques Roadshow, he was hoping to hear that it was worth a few…

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth has just announced a massive and historical new gift, given in honor of the late Ruth Carter Stevenson (1923-2013) who was…

Businesswoman Marilyn Johnson moved to Austin in the 1990s and became a docent at the Blanton Museum of Art in 2012. When she visited the museum, reports KUT.org, she realized…

If you are an artist who lives and works in Bexar County and has ever had a desire to escape to Berlin, Blue Star Contemporary has the program for you. Now…

The British art critic, novelist, painter and poet John Berger died today at the age of ninety after a long illness, reports Artforum and the Guardian. Anyone who has studied…

As reported in the Houston Chronicle, anti-pipeline and drilling activists have announced a plan to establish three camps north of Big Bend National Park in the coming week. Two of the camps—one near…