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More than 40 institutions will participate in tomorrow’s 16th annual Austin Museum Day. There will be free admission to all participating museums and most will have special activities and presentations…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has announced that Anne Wilkes Tucker, founding curator of the Department of Photography, will retire in June 2015. Malcolm Daniel, longtime curator and…

FotoFest, the international biennial of photography and photo-related art that takes over every possible venue in Houston every other spring, will officially begin on March 15, 2014. Because of logistics…

There is only a week or so left to catch Andy Rihn’s Texas’ Longest Hammer Choir, the “psychedelic worksong, film and denim-heavy installation experience” at Austin’s MASS Gallery. As part…

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has received a $450,000 National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS). The grant will go towards spreading its “Museum’s…

Those who want to catch the entire Texas Biennial experience were, of course, at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio for the mega-survey show, but have also…

Now that Community Supported Agriculture groups (locally-based models of agriculture and food distribution which began popping up in the 1980s) are catching on across the country, local arts organizations are…

Now that the Playboy Marfa has been officially classified by the Texas Department of Transportation as an “illegal outdoor advertising sign,” someone has asked the inevitable question, “Aren’t the fake…

As the news unfolds about today’s Washington Navy Yard shooting rampage that left 13 dead, many Texans have a little extra heartache to hear that the alleged shooter is from…

Houston’s DiverseWorks was founded in 1982 by a group of artists who really wanted to make some noise—artistically, socially, and politically. Beginning at the peak of the Reagan era and…

With less than two months before voters decide whether to approve the $217 million in bonds to turn the Houston Astrodome into a gigantic convention center, a new political action…

The Brony Fan Fair is well underway in Austin this weekend, but there’s still time to catch the activities and excitement at the convention of fans of the animated series…

The Idea Fund, the re-granting program funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation, is gearing up for its sixth round. Glasstire Editor Bill Davenport describes the Idea Fund as the “program…

Now in its fourth year, Art on Henderson, an annual juried sculpture competition to select and place works by Texas artists along Henderson Avenue and adjoining streets, has announced the…

NASA announced today that the Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has now entered interstellar space, making it the first human-made object to leave our solar system and wander into the…

A big billboard went up the other day in Houston along I-45 South, which reads “EVEN THE PIGEONS DON’T SEE ME.” It may catch a few drivers off guard, but…

MFAH Director Gary Tinterow will speak tomorrow, Thursday at 11 am, at a luncheon at the Houston Junior League hosted by the Community Artists’ Collective. The talk is not cheap…

Menil Director Josef Helfenstein has announced the appointment of Allegra Pesenti as chief curator of the Menil Drawing Institute. She will head the development of the first freestanding facility in…

When The Austin Contemporary changed its name in July, it also said that it planned to refocus its mission and begin a seriously exciting series of art commissions. The Dallas-based…

  Michael K. Brown, long-time curator of the Bayou Bend Collection, died on Sunday of organ failure, ten days after undergoing a heart transplant. His brothers are organizing services in…