Less than a week ago, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced that the museum will no longer be built in Chicago, reports the New York Times. After year of…
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Benjamin Patterson, a founding member of Fluxus, died this weekend at his home in Wiesbaden, Germany, reports ARTnews. He was 82 years old. An artist, composer, and musician, Patterson was…
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This past Friday, sculptor Tony Feher passed away at the age of 60 from cancer-related causes. Feher’s work was simple in nature—he reimagined often-overlooked and discarded objects into colorful, humorous assemblages that made viewers…
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It’s just going to be steamy throughout the state this weekend, but Rockport, Texas is predicted to top out at only 90 degrees. (Check your local forecast—most places will be…
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The city of Sugar Land has been under the magnifying glass for the past few weeks. At the end of May, the city installed a selfie statue in the town’s public…
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We are beginning to slip into the summer doldrums where galleries close for a few months and museums mount their kid-friendly summer shows. Normally around this time programming slows down—but a…
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Maxwell L. Anderson, former Dallas Museum of Art director, who left last fall to take a position as Director of Grant Programs at the New Cities Foundation (NFC), a nonprofit…
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Ted Kincaid, a (deservedly) highly regarded artist based in Dallas, and his partner Steve Atkinson and some of their friends have founded I AM DONE, a “project to mobilize like-minded people to…
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Americans for the Arts honored 38 outstanding public art projects created in 2015 at its annual convention through the Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review program. The 38 public…
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The Houston Center for Photography‘s board announced today that Ashlyn Davis, the organization’s Director of Development since June of 2015, has been hired as its newest Executive Director. Via HCP: “HCP’s Board of Directors…
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Yes, there is an online Cheetos Museum and it is sending out a call for entries. Ten weekly winners will be awarded a $10,000 prize and have their masterpieces immortalized…
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The Church of the Friendly Ghost will again present its New Media Art & Sound Summit, with its very catchy abbreviation COTFG: NMASS2016, this week at Austin’s Salvage Vanguard Theater…
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Glasstire is looking for arts writers in Texas! To apply, please submit one unedited piece of your writing from the past six months. Examples include reviews, artist profiles, essays or anything pertaining to…
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Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s 14-acre home to collections of decorative art, paintings, and furniture, has gone full-on Broadway. Currently, the collection is offering an audio tour…
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The Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF) may not take place until November, but in off-festival times HCAF also presents an “Artist’s Choice Film Series,” inviting visual, performing, and literary artists…
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For the past year, the website Conflict of Interest has been covering the visual art and literary happenings of Austin. The site is cleverly named for the all-too-real fact that, to make…
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Mickey Rosmarin, philanthropist and founder of Tootsies Houston, died Friday of a heart attack in his Houston home. He was 63 years old. For more than 40 years, he was…
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Tomorrow, June 19, is Father’s Day. If you have yet to get your dad a gift, fear not—museums and art spaces across Texas want to help you celebrate dad in…
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For the second year, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is extending through the summer its Tuesday evening programming (its long-running acclaimed visiting-artist lecture series, organized by Terri Thornton, runs…
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It’s turning out to be quite a year of loss and mourning. Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art will commemorate the lives of recently lost musicians in its upcoming SoundSpace event.…