Art

Vanessa Davidson of the Phoenix Art Museum has been named the new curator of Latin American art at the Blanton Museum of Art. Her appointment...

Betelhem Makonnen is the winner of the 2019 Tito's Prize, a $15,000 award to an Austin visual artist, officials with Big Medium, the nonprofit...

Bryce Dessner, guitarist for the indie band the National, was a Cincinnati teenager in 1990 when the city’s Contemporary Arts Center became the epicenter...

  A few years ago, artist Jill Magid turned Luis Barragán, Mexico’s greatest modern architect, into a diamond. With the permission of Barragán’s heirs, Magid...

The new Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking — previously known as Flatbed Press & Gallery — has just opened it Flatbed Community Press. Occupying 1,500-square-feet of Flatbed's...

  Sorry, Austin. But Ai Wei Wei's "Forever Bicycles" is not a forever part of the city. For two years, the monumental, playful and dizzying sculpture...

In preparation for an interview with Kiki Smith on her recent show at Bale Creek Allen Gallery in Austin, I was told a myriad...

Before his death at age 27; before the heroin addiction, the money, the fame, the gallery exhibits; before the friendship with Andy Warhol; before...

Stretching some 103 feet up the side of a downtown building, a mural by Josef Kristofoletti now claims the title of Austin’s tallest public...

  People have mixed feelings about the Blanton Museum's William J. Battle Collection of Plaster Casts. They are not original artworks, rather a large group...