A wiki sets out to document artist-run galleries
An exhibit celebrating artist-run spaces and DIY galleries launches its own after-life, so to speak, with an intriguing project to document independent artist-run spaces...
FotoATX, a new Austin photography festival, launches
A nascent fine art photography festival has launched in Austin.
Called FotoATX it is a collaboration between the city's Cultural Arts Division, the City’s Museum...
Wangechi Mutu at the Contemporary Austin
The idea of the outsider is on the collective mind of the Austin art scene, and for good reason. Sure, the response to the...
Power, politics, history at the center of an immersive exhibition by...
For the inaugural Booth Art Prize show at the Contemporary Austin, Los Angeles-based artist Rodney McMillian tackles a potent American symbol: The White House.
And...
Changes to UT’s Fine Arts Library spark backlash
Recent renovations to the University of Texas’ Fine Arts Library have ignited criticism from students and faculty of the College of Fine Arts —...
After 20 years, Flatbed Press loses its lease — and...
After nearly 20 years, Flatbed Press is losing the lease to its 18,400-square-foot building in East Austin. The current lease expires at the end...
City’s TEMPO art program now to include murals
The city of Austin's Art in Public Places is expanding the scope of its temporary art program — known as TEMPO — to include murals.
Through...
Sarah Mendelsohn named first sound-artist-in-residence at the Blanton Museum of Art
California sound artist Sarah Mendelsohn has been named the first sound-artist-in-residence at the Blanton Museum of Art.
The new residence is part of the Blanton's...
Mona Hatoum’s “Terra Infirma” at the Menil Collection
Goliath, contradictory forces are at work in the world today. We’re inundated with news, both positive and negative, of the political and cultural movements...
Blanton Museum receives gift of contemporary Latin American art
The Blanton Museum of Art will receive a gift of 45 works of contemporary art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
The Blanton is...
