Today’s Australian Aboriginal Artists Uproot Ancestral Stories
With new and easy access to DNA testing, finding out about one’s ancestry is all the rage right now. The work in "Ancestral Modern:...
Texas Book Festival Names 2018 Poster Artist
The Texas Book Festival today announced that Austin-based painter Valerie Fowler is the festival 2018 poster artist.
Fowler’s oil painting "Spring, Everything Changes" is a luscious,...
‘For La Raza’ Mural Restored in East Austin
The city of Austin has finished restoration work on an iconic mural celebrating the Chicano heritage in East Austin.
Originally created in 1992 muralists Robert Herrera...
Nkame: Celebrating the Vision of Belkis Ayón
Two years after “Nkame” debuted at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles, the touring exhibition arrives at Houston’s Station Museum to showcase the collography...
Pump Project Relocating to Southeast Austin
Another East Austin arts space is relocating.
After 13 years, Pump Project Art Complex will relocate to a new facility near E. Riverside Dr. and...
Katy McCarthy Awarded UT’s First Ever St. Elmo Arts Residency
It's a sweet gig.
Artist Katy McCarthy is the first recipient of the St. Elmo Arts Residency and fellowship, a new opportunity established by the...
As High Costs Drive Austin Artists Away from the Eastside, New...
With pristine white walls and concrete floors, DORF is a new exhibition space in Austin. It is also a two-car garage in South Austin.
DORF...
Sydney Yeager: A Willingness to Take What is Immediately Given
They say change is inevitable, but it can be scary. The Austin-based painter Sydney Yeager weathers personal and artistic changes adeptly by listening to...
When SAMO© Became Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist
Before his death at age 27; before the heroin addiction, the money, the fame, the gallery exhibits; before the friendship with Andy Warhol; before...
Filming Final Meals: Artists Recreate Death Row Inmate Final Meals for...
Beginning in 1982, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice publicly listed the last meals requested by death row inmates. The practice continued into the...
