POWER in the Contemporary Art World
The implosion of the Austin art world has got me thinking about art world power dynamics, as I mentioned last week in my published correspondence [...]
Hybrid Art Summit TODAY!
As the culmination of all the hybridizing, canoodling and commingling going on in Austin at the Fusebox Festival, Texas Biennial, and Art Week Austin, the [...]
Chinati Community Day
On Sunday, May 1 Marfa’s Chinati Foundation, unscorched amid the recent wildfires, will open it’s doors for Community Day with free brunch, free tours, free [...]
Smithsonian peacemaker
Lee Rosenbaum’s Culturegrrl blog reports that an unnamed conservative congressman went to bat for the Smithsonian’s right to show A Fire in My Belly by [...]
Austin Weekend Cliff Notes April 29-31
There is too much to do in Austin this weekend! So whether you’re from here of need an excuse to visit these are my picks [...]
Brazarre, indeed
Brazarre, and “artful bras” event benefiting the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life Greater Heights will showcase “creatively crafted bras by local artists” which will [...]
Piero Fenci named Texas Master
Piero Fenci has been named Texas Master craftsman of 2012 by the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Fenci is the fourth Texas Master, and will [...]
Electronic music for young women
Electronic music artists Bonnie Jones & Suzanne Thorpe are going to be showing young women how to to build contact microphones and use them to [...]
Copycat
‘It was plagiarism, a plain piece of plumbing’ – Anon., ‘The Richard Mutt Case,’ 1917. Who hasn’t copied something? Dress it up with whatever word [...]
Despite Galveston, Avis Frank!
“Despite the fact that Galveston is a city of 50,000 and in no way large enough to sustain the sales required for a successful gallery,” [...]
Hive begins to swarm
On Friday, April 29, Hive Houston is raising awareness (and cash) with musical performances at AvantGarden. What is Hive Houston? It’s a utopian community of [...]
Rifkin resigns Blanton, Wicha up next
Ned Rifkin, director of the Blanton Museum in Austin and UT prof, is resigning his museum job to focus on research and teaching as of [...]
Inner Art Corridor open studios
Houston’s Inner Art Corridor is opening its many studio doors on Saturday, April 30 from 3-9pm. The 6th annual event showcases 100+ artists in the [...]
Virtually live: Low Lives 3
Low Lives 3 is an exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted over the web and projected in real time at multiple venues around the world, [...]
They shoot curators, don’t they?
Two Friday’s ago the Texas Biennial hosted a Curator’s Meeting in Austin. The event, supported by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Linda [...]
Friis-Hansen: “Set the Art Museums on Fire”
Ex-Austin Museum of Art curator and “art conoisseur” Dana Friis-Hansen will share the stage with burlesque dancer Jori Lodes, furniture maker Michael Yates, musician Southpaw [...]
Maria Guzman
Maria Guzman interprets her world into playfully grotesque, allegorical paintings, installations, sculptures and performances. In settings inspired by a mixed cultural identity (Italy, South [...]
There’s a day for that?
Houston Mayor Annise Parker declared April 19 “Mica Mossbacher Day”, in recognition of Mrs. Mossbacher, Honorary Consul to Iceland, as the “citizen responsible for beginning [...]
Dueling Houston art fairs
Two competing art fairs scheduled for this fall in Houston have set the CAMH and the MFAH at odds. The Houston Fine Art Fair is [...]
Liz Alexander Visual Art Award
The Houston Art Alliance has announced the Liz Alexander Visual Art Award, honoring the memory of Liz Alexander, a longtime HAA staffer who died suddenly [...]
