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1 week ago | 
glasstire.com | Jessica Fuentes
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation have announced their joint commitment to provide $800,000 of funding to 80 small and midsized organizations whose National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Challenge America Grants were canceled in February. The support is specifically for visual arts programs.
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1 week ago | 
glasstire.com | Jessica Fuentes
The Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) has announced 22 organizations receiving $50,000 Cultural Sustainability Grants, including institutions in Austin, Brownsville, Dallas, Fort Worth, Harlingen, Houston, and Lubbock. The granting program is funded by The Wallace Foundation in partnership with the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations (USRAOs). M-AAA serves Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
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1 week ago | 
glasstire.com | Jessica Fuentes
Last month, Humanities Texas, the state’s nonprofit affiliate organization of the National Endowment for the Humanities, published an action alert on its website, noting that its federal funding for fiscal year 2025, totaling $2.6 million, has been terminated, effective immediately. “These cuts will have a devastating effect,” the message reads. The organization explained that it receives $2.6 million per year from the National Endowment for Humanities, which accounts for 65% of its budget.
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2 weeks ago | 
glasstire.com | Jessica Fuentes
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas has named Houston-based painter Vincent Valdez and Austin-based author KB Brookins as its 2025-2026 artists-in-residence. The creatives were selected from nearly 200 applicants who responded to the organization’s open call.
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2 weeks ago | 
glasstire.com | Jessica Fuentes
The Rachofsky House, the former main site housing Howard and Cindy Rachofsky’s art collection, is being sold. Completed in 1996, the three-story home was designed by Richard Meier and features a site-specific lawn work by Robert Irwin as well as other outdoor installations. Prior to the 2012 opening of The Warehouse, an 18,000-square-foot property with 16 galleries, the house was the main exhibition space for the Rachofsky Collection.
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2 weeks ago | 
glasstire.com | Jessica Fuentes
At the beginning of April, the City of Brownsville launched a call for proposals imagining “bold new uses” for the former Brownsville Museum of Fine Art (BMFA). Last August, BMFA announced a formal partnership with the City, which would provide operational support. From 2011 to 2013 and again from 2015 to 2022, the institution operated with a negative net income. Then, in November the City hired Dr. Candace Matelic to strategize ways to enhance its arts and cultural spaces.
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2 weeks ago | 
glasstire.com | Jessica Fuentes
The 2022 copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Austin-based collage artist Deborah Roberts against Birmingham-based artist Lynthia Edwards, Ms. Edwards’ gallery (Richard Beavers Gallery), and gallerist Richard Beavers, has been “amicably resolved,” as reported by ARTnews. In 2023, Mr. Beavers and Ms. Edwards requested that the lawsuit be dismissed, and the following year Ms. Edwards filed a counterclaim asserting that Ms. Roberts’ lawsuit was defamation.
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2 weeks ago | 
glasstire.com | Jessica Fuentes
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), and the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas (ACLU of Texas) have confirmed that the Fort Worth Police Department has returned photographs by Sally Mann, which were seized from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in January.
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2 weeks ago | 
glasstire.com | Jessica Fuentes
What does it mean for a curator’s work to be curated into an exhibition? Generally open calls are meant for artists whose pieces will either be juried into a group exhibition or selected for a solo show. This year, Un Dique, the curatorial duo of Octavio Castrejón and Alonso Robles, was chosen for one of three exhibition spots through the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso’s 2024-2025 Genius Loci open call.
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3 weeks ago | 
glasstire.com | Jessica Fuentes
As of Tuesday, April 22 at 10 a.m., Performing Arts Houston has opened ticket sales for Eldorado Ballroom Houston, a series of programming curated by Solange Knowles for Saint Heron. The six-event series will take place June 10 through June 20, 2025, across three Houston venues: Jones Hall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the historic Eldorado Ballroom.
