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It was announced recently that Christine Gervais has been appointed the new Director of Rienzi, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s off-site museum for European decorative arts. Gervais has worked at Rienzi for the past…

Earlier this week, the MacArthur Foundation released their list of 2016 “genius” grant winners. This year’s round of fellows includes biologists, computer scientists, and many professions in-between. Of the twenty-three geniuses, two have ties…

The Georgetown Arts and Culture Board has put out a call for submissions for “grant proposals for art, music, theatre, and cultural heritage events or projects to take place in…

Founded in 2014 in Austin, the Weird Homes Tour is now coming to Houston and, of course, most participants are weirdos (artists and collectors). Yesterday, the Houston Chronicle posted an…

Project Row Houses in Houston has announced the artists for round 45 of its Artist Rounds series, which will open on October 22. Artists Rounds is the signature Project Row showcase…

Gentrification is the annoyance of many artists throughout Texas (and elsewhere). Artists, beatniks, and hippies move into a neighborhood because of its cheap rent and make it all cool. Developers…

On Saturday, October 1 at 11 a.m. Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio will host a brunch that will connect the public to its ongoing Berlin residency program. (The annual…

To be a true contemporary art afficianadio, one must also delve into the old and the new, the East and the West. The Islamic Arts Society has announced the Third…

In the tradition of makerspaces like The Crucible in Oakland, CA, Lubbock has a new arts community space, ULabs Makerspace (the U stands in for “ubiquitous”). This is a boon for the…

The thing about performance art (among many, many other things) is the cliché of the spewing, therapeutic peanut butter experience. On the other hand, the freedom and the openness of…

Art League Houston recently announced their 2016 fall call for proposals. Open calls for ALH are put out twice a year—this round’s deadline is November 30, 2016. All submissions will be…

The playwright Edward Albee died Friday at his home in Long Island, New York. He was 88. The author of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “Three Tall Women” and “The…

Today, September 17, is the second annual Comix Gauntlet at Houston art space Alabama Song. For seven hours today, a select group of artists will each create a seven-page comic from…

San Antonio is about to inaugurate a photography festival called 4×5 Photo Fest. It’s on September 25 at Brick at the Blue Star Arts Complex. Here’s a description: “4×5 Photo Fest will offer educational artist…

The East Austin Studio Tour (East) is not for a couple of months (November 12-13 and 19-20), but it takes that long to properly strategize for this free, annual, self-guided…

One year before the opening of the Menil’s much-anticipated Menil Drawing Institute, the Institute is losing its (still-new) chief curator David Breslin. He’s headed next month to the Whitney Museum of…

Former President George W. Bush is set to release a catalogue featuring 66 of Bush’s portraits and a four-panel mural depicting American service members and veterans. Due next February from…

The very popular Maurizio Cattelan retired from art making after his big, well-received Guggenheim retrospective in 2011-12. But five years later, including some production delays, he’s debuting a new work at the Guggenheim…

Margo Handwerker has been named the new gallery director at the Texas State University Galleries in San Marcos. She comes to TSU from UCLA, where she was a Critical Studies…

Though no official press release has gone out yet (still), the Texas Contemporary Art Fair in Houston, which opens in 15 days, has now added to its website a ‘Galleries’…