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AI-generated image of a bronze “Cadillac Ranch,” created by Jon Revett Brandon Zech, Jessica Fuentes, and Nicholas Frank speak about issues around AI-generated art and writing following ArtReview USA‘s unauthorized republication of articles published by Glasstire.

Texas Women for the Arts (TWA), a granting group within the Texas Cultural Trust (TXCT) nonprofit arts advocacy organization, has announced the recipients of its 2026 arts education grants. Since its founding in 2005, TWA annually awards grants to organizations throughout Texas to increase access to arts education resources for children.

Untitled Art, Houston has announced its exhibitor list for 2026, the second edition of the international art fair to be held Friday, October 2, through Sunday, October 4, at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Seventeen Texas galleries will join 78 galleries from 20 countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Para leer este artículo en español, por favor vaya aquí. To read this article in Spanish, please go here. I’ve seen Francisco Moreno’s work in exhibitions across Texas and beyond for more than a decade. His massive paintings are teeming with energy and often feature a cast of characters and detailed environments of folding and unfolding narratives. So much so that a Moreno painting in a larger group show can feel intimidating, like there is surely not enough time to unpack it.

Marfa is most famous for its visual art, but it is also a quietly legendary space for live music.

This was the year of back-to-back art fair weekends in Austin! Friends Fair, in its second year, took place May 7-9 at the Loren Hotel, and Affordable Art Fair, in its third year, followed the weekend afterward at the Palmer Events Center May 14-17. Though they took place in the same city, each one had its own distinct style. Friends Fair felt like it was for the “in” art crowd, which I think stemmed in part from the venue, a five-star hotel.

Having lived in cities across this country since Donald Trump’s first election I have witnessed the unveiling of the Trump Era, a time defined by dissolving rights of U.S. citizens, politics, and the country’s character. From those vantages I have also seen a unification of voices advocating for progressive causes and, to a greater degree, responding to regressive efforts.

What beauty lives in our shadows? The delight I find in the irony of using film noir as a lens outs me as a linguistic nerd, one that also revels in shadows, both in my own work, my musings, my muses, my taste in contemporary art, and the basis of my joy. Color me goth, I find the juxtaposition of light and shadow to be the apex of moral ambiguity, the basis for visual stimulation and the dividing line of psychological constructs, not to mention most organized religions.

Throughout 2026, as part of Glasstire’s 25th anniversary, the publication is organizing panel discussions in Dallas-Fort Worth, The Panhandle, West Texas, East Texas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and The Valley. Each panel features artists, art critics, and arts professionals from the region discussing the area’s art and art writing over the past two-and-a-half decades.

The stark, wild landscape of the desert draws a particular kind of person: one who prefers the quiet drama of vast powers over the constant chatter of an urban life. The American West, for all its absence of audible noise, stirs the inner self with its expansive mystery.