Austin has long pouted about its lack of arts coverage (as do many cities), but now Seth Orion Schwaiger of the Austin Chronicle (and Glasstire) really has a beef. He…

Glasstire staff and contributors share which Texas-based art made their personal best lists for 2016.

With large-scale immersive experiences, the devil is in the details—you don’t want to be jarred out of your festival bliss by the myriad things that either don’t work or are victims of organizational neglect.

Rex Koontz, the University of Houston (UH) School of Art director, is set to oversee a $102,000 project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), reports the Houston…

It’s a good time to be a preparator in Texas. Right now, there are six preparator-like jobs available across the state. If you are in (or want to move to) San…

Artists have been blurring the lines between art and life for quite some time now, often causing viewers to make connections between the socio-political world around us and everyday reality…

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Bathroom Humor       ************* No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else is also…

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth has finally landed a Moby-Dick of acquisitions: it has added a George Bellows painting to its collection. The Amon Carter…

Houston paints the town red in preparation for hosting the 2017 Super Bowl. Houston First just unveiled Wings over Water, a kinetic sculpture by Joe O’Connell and Creative Machines, which will welcome visitors on…

Whatever you may say about the work itself, Otero is hustling the art game for all it’s worth.

The Daily Mail reported on Thursday that “sources” had told them that President-elect Donald Trump had approached Stallone about a top arts-related position in his administration, perhaps as chairman of…

Here’s to a very uncomfortable 2017.

It was announced recently that the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio has acquired a painting by San Antonio artist Vincent Valdez. The piece, titled The Strangest Fruit 9, from 2013, depicts the museum’s…

Yesterday, The Idea Fund announced 12 new grantees that will receive funding throughout 2017. The jurors for this round were Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor at the Department of History of Art at…

The four artists here express their ideas and feelings more in code—something that is inherent to the language of abstraction.

Asa Hursh was appointed executive director of Art Alliance Austin in the summer of 2014; he’s relocating with his family to Los Angeles, and Jade Walker has been named interim…

New York’s Art Matters foundation—whose mission is to support experimentation in the arts—announced its 2016 grant recipients yesterday, reports Artforum. The foundation has awarded twenty-six artists with grants ranging from…

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a venue that keeps changing its name, weekend jealousy, and a pop-up show for last-minute holiday shopping.

This week, the National Endowment for the Arts NEA) announced more than $30 million will be awarded to nonprofit organizations and individuals across the country for grants in the areas…

This peripatetic group is getting a chance to show its stuff somewhere other than a pop-up venue.