Visual Arts

More than 2,000 pieces created by people experiencing homelessness will be displayed for sale during the show this weekend. Ninety-five percent of every purchase goes back to the artists.

The collection features art and artifacts highlighting the Queen of Tejano’s legacy — including never-before-seen sketches from her longtime fashion designer, who spoke about his friendship with her.

The iconic fake sandwiches can be spotted all around town. Each is about 16 feet long and 4 feet wide. They weigh up to 800 pounds.

Theresa Bond Zelazny has been an artist all her life, but a few years ago she turned that lifelong passion into a new hobby: creating small artworks and distributing them randomly for strangers to find and (hopefully) enjoy. She calls it 'guerrilla art.'

“To date, we’ve paid over $200,000 in commissions to our artists,” said director of external relations and cofounder Lucy Gross. “We have artists that earn upwards of $30,000 a year from their art sales.”

The move may signal a reconsideration of how prominently the city should promote local artists in major public spaces.

The artist's latest lost mural was demolished when the building that housed the UT Austin's Steve Hicks School of Social Work was torn down.

We talk with Richard Samuel about his favorite hobby, playing flag football.

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.

"In this difficult period, people feel a strong connection to Kahlo's sorrows and triumphs," says Dallas Museum of Art curator Mark A. Castro. Kahlo made these paintings as her health deteriorated.