Big Medium, a nonprofit organization in Austin, has announced that it is closing after more than two decades of supporting the local arts community.
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The City of Houston Awards Over $14 Million in Grants to Nonprofits and Artists
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs has awarded funds totaling nearly $15 million through various arts and culture grant programs.
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Garland Fielder searches for the best works on display at Zona Maco during Art Week in Mexico City.
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EssayOp Ed
Chicano, Post-Chicano, Latinx, and Rasquachimo: Art Terms That Define, Divide, and Unite
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentJessica Fuentes speaks with Latinx artists and art professionals across Texas to parse the nuances of labels used to categorize works by artists from the Latin American diaspora.
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: Bumin Kim at Anya Tish Gallery, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentA video tour of the exhibition "Bumin Kim: Lingering Light" at Anya Tish Gallery, Houston.
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Kelly Mason reviews a multisensory performance by artist Xxavier Edward Carter at the Golden Blk Candle Lounge.
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Three Civil Rights Organizations Demand FWPD Release Confiscated Sally Mann Photographs
by Jessica Fuentes 1 commentThe ACLU of Texas, along with two other civil rights organizations, have sent a letter to the Fort Worth Police Department demanding the release of Sally Mann photographs confiscated from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s Diaries of Home exhibition.
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Five-Minute Tours: “Beyond Blue” at Art Center Waco
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentA video tour of the exhibition "Beyond Blue" at Art Center Waco.
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This week: the first major retrospective of a pioneer of the Chicano Art Movement in El Paso, a solo exhibition featuring new and historical works by a renowned Texas artist in Dallas, a show of new self-portraits exploring the ambivalence of motherhood in San Antonio, and more.
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Dallas Contemporary’s Board of Directors has announced the appointment of Lucia Simek as the organization’s Executive Director.
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The Houston Arts Alliance has appointed Taylor Jackson as its next CEO; she succeeds John Abodeely, who stepped down from the organization in 2024.
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Review
Jon Revett’s Route 66 Utopia: Where the Past Grows Wild
by Hannah Deanby Hannah Dean 0 commentHannah Dean reviews a multimedia exhibition of work by Jon Revett at CO-OPT Research + Projects in Lubbock.
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Five-Minute Tours: “The HVFA Group Show” at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentA video tour of "The HVFA Group Show" at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston.
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The Cedars Union Appoints New Executive Director; Receives $500,000 Gift
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe Cedars Union, a nonprofit artist incubator in Dallas, has named Emma Vernon as its new Executive Director.
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Review
Review: Candace Hicks: “The Story I Tell at Parties”
by Lauren Jonesby Lauren Jones 0 commentLauren Jones reviews an exhibition at Ivester Contemporary that explores memory and its abstractions through hand-embroidered storytelling.
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Five-Minute Tours: Jeanette “Joy” Harris & Molly Koehn at Throughline, Houston
by Glasstireby Glasstire 0 commentA video tour of the exhibition "of infinite elastic" at Throughline, Houston.
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Houston Endowment, a private foundation that supports the city’s arts, public parks, civic engagement, and public education needs, has announced the 2025 recipients of its Jones Artist Award.
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ReviewStaff Picks
Mary Virginia Carson: Blazing a Trail for the First Art in Texas
by Gene Fowlerby Gene Fowler 0 commentGene Fowler reviews an exhibition of the watercolors made by Mary Virginia Carson to document West Texas pictographs and petroglyphs.
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Christopher Karr reviews an exhibition of artist and musician Lisa Alvarado's intensely-colored vibrational maps.
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Arts Organizations in Houston and Austin Among Warhol Foundation 2024 Grantees
by Jessica Fuentes 0 commentThe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the 49 recipients of its 2024 grants, including DiverseWorks and the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, and the Art Galleries at Black Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.