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Did your art history classes leave you dangling somewhere in the art scene of the sixties? The Contemporary Austin has some classes for you. Called “Contemporary Art 101,” the classes are…

A few days ago, Houston’s galleryHOMELAND announced that it will be moving to a new space in the city’s developing East End. Located at 3401 Harrisburg, part of the 20,000-square-foot Imperial Linen Services…

As this month’s Food for Thought video program, the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, TX will be showing Leonardo and the Mona Lisa tomorrow, September 13, at noon. Bring…

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth recently announced the speakers for this fall’s Tuesday Evenings at the Modern lecture series. The program kicks off this coming Tuesday, September 13, with…

Three times a year, Artpace in San Antonio hosts eight-week long artist residencies comprised of one international, one national, and one Texas-based artist. While national and international artists cannot apply, the Texas-based artists are…

The Tanne Foundation announced its 2016 award-winners: seven artists and one artist-run organization from across the country. San Antonio-based artist (the Foundation lists him as Crawford, TX-based) Jimmy James Canales…

Last week, we reported that popular Texas artist Jeff Wheeler had: 1) accepted a newfound director position at James Surls’ place in Splendora, and 2) was still traveling his and his brothers’…

Earlier this year, the President and First Lady traveled to Austin for the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference. Apparently, Obama was very inspired by the mass meeting of creative thinkers…

Ah, the pain of reconstruction. The revamped Houston Art Fair (under new ownership) has announced its  exhibitor list for this year, just three weeks out from its opening day. At first…

The Department of Art and Art History and Visual Arts Center has announced that Jade Walker is stepping down as director of the Visual Arts Center (VAC) as of October…

The last few years have thrown up a lot of conversation on student debt and, for artists, the soaring costs of top MFA programs in the U.S. Last week, Artnet’s Ben…

Okay, Salvador Dali is not on the panel, nor is Jeff Koons or Julian Schnabel, but San Antonio’s Southwest School of Art has put together a program entitled “Working Artists…

There has been a push recently from the city of Houston to insert art into unlikely places. Traffic intersections both in and out of the loop have recieved customized, commissioned murals…

The Mystic Lyon window gallery will inaugurate its new space with an installation by Fifth Ward resident and artist Jesse Lott, who will be honored in mid-October by the Art…

  Kanye West made a big splash into the art world last week with his first gallery show. Hosted by Los Angeles-based gallery Blum & Poe, the single-work exhibition consisted of Famous, a…

It’s that time again: nominations are now being accepted for the 2017-2018 Texas State Artist! Each year the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) chooses two artists (one 2-D and one 3-D)…

Last fall, the young space-within-a-space called Hello Project in Houston closed when its host space, McMurtrey Gallery, shut its doors. At that point, McMurtrey had been in operation for 35 years; Hello…

As of yesterday, the University of Houston (UH) has a College of the Arts. Rather than falling under the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the new College now…

Jeffrey Wheeler, pioneer and mentor artist of Lubbock, announced this last spring that he’d be picking up sticks to head elsewhere in Texas, but at the time it was still…

Now in its tenth year, Corpus Christi’s K Space Contemporary again presents its Third Coast National exhibition, which opens tomorrow night, September 2, from 5:30-9pm. Internationally renowned (but always based…