Art

Our question asker wondered who put it there and if it should be moved somewhere else. Jasper Johns has no connections to Texas. Who is this secret admirer?

Austin’s troll is the latest of 129 similar sculptures that Danish artist Thomas Dambo has built across the world. Dambo, a self-described “garbage artist," specializes in art with environmental themes and recycled materials.

BEPI Park has been a mini-golf course, a Squid Game-inspired holiday display, a community vegetable garden and even an active volcano. Now, it’s a wild troll that its creator imagines as a perfect companion for Pease Park troll down the street.

Students at AHB Community School in Hyde Park have been hard at work building tiny homes for the fairies on campus.

Franklin lives in a cramped one-room apartment in South Austin, struggling with financial and health issues, but still creating the art that made him famous.

The Pease Park Conservancy would pay for the sculpture, made out of scrap wood and recycled materials. It's asking the public for feedback.

The former retail site is now home to a permanent art exhibition, cafe and gift shop.

When we last met "Dennis," he had been found in a Goodwill store on Far West Boulevard, discovered to be missing for 70 years from a German museum and put on display in a museum in San Antonio.

Donna Looper wanted to help her then 8-year-old son Ben conceptualize the toll COVID-19 was taking on their community. The two folded 248 origami butterflies to represent individuals who lost their lives to COVID-19 in Georgetown.

The top-selling author in the country right now is a 42-year-old mom and former social worker who lives in the same small Texas town where she's spent practically her entire life.