Some of the city’s underexposed and underappreciated artists have come together for a special show opening Saturday at Gallery Lombardi. The offbeat Surprise Me includes a mixed bag of contemporary drawings, photos, sounds, videos, mixed media paintings and fiber art. Local artist Josh Rios helped organize the show and called on a few of friends to join him — Ryan Lauderdale, Rachel Cook and Corkey Sinks. Rios recently answered a few questions for Austinist about... more ›

*Photo of last year's Heydays taken from UT's College of Fine Arts' website* What are you doing On Thursday? What about this weekend? No seriously, what is going on in your little world? Could you manage to squeeze a little culture in there somewhere? The Creative Research Laboratory of the Department of Art and Art History at UT is hosting Heydays(again) on Thursday, December 8th and again on December 10th. The December 8th date,... more ›

Opening Saturday, July 9, Creative Research Laboratory presents Fever, introducing work by 13 Master of Fine Arts candidates and curated by four Art History graduate students, all from the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. The opening reception will take place 6 to 9 p.m. at Creative Research Laboratory, located at 2832 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. more ›