Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912 at the Kimbell Art Museum
There is a popular myth that Genius Is Born Of Suffering. The idea is so pervasive and pretentious it demands every word be capitalized when [...]
Adams’ mosiac caterpillar moves into Buckboard Park
A mosaic-covered caterpillar sculpture by Houston artist Reginald Adams and students at YES prep academy was moved into place Thursday, part of the caterpillar-turning butterfly [...]
Dallas Arts philanthropist Nancy Hamon dies at 92
Arts philanthropist Nancy B. Hamon died Saturday at her home in Dallas. She was 92. Her gifts included a $20 million donation in 1988 to [...]
Gudjon Bjarnason at Blue Star: Explosive Sculpture
Before the era of car bombs and IEDs, Icelandic-born sculptor Gudjon Bjarnason began using high explosives to create unorthodox shapes and forms in his work. [...]
Trash Project encore: Allison Orr choreographs solid waste resources in Austin on August 27-28
Jeanne Clair Van Ryzin of the Austin 360 blog announced an encore performance of “The Trash Project,” choreographer Allison Orr’s weirdly successful 2009 spectacle using [...]
rdAGENTS’ Charette Shop on Aug. 6 to mastermind planned remodel for Workshop Houston
Workshop Houston is bursting at the seams: the Scholar Shop, Beat Shop, Bike Shop, Chopper Shop, and Style Shop, each focused on nurturing students’ practical [...]
Me, Myself and Art
I have to admit it’s been a hard year. Since last July Art and I have had a rocky relationship. After 2 decades of unconditional [...]
Theater school without the university: TBH’s new Expressarte program auditioning now!
Talento Bilingüe de Houston is launching Expressarte, a comprehensive theater program for youth and adults. The youth program offers classes in acting, voice, movement, and [...]
Under the black Umbrella: museum disaster forum meets to discuss the unthinkable at the MFAH
With tropical storm Don bearing down on Corpus Christi, three hundred museum professionals are meeting with experts from the National Archives, Federal Emergency Management Agency, [...]
Sex/Twist at Kirk Hopper Fine Art
The concept behind this group show (also called S/Twist or S…/Twist, depending on where you’re looking) derives from Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality. Curator Liliana Bloch had the idea swimming in [...]
Brian Willey and Thao Votang’s Tiny Park, a new Austin nomadic/house gallery, announces its first exhibition
Austin artist Brian Willey and writer Thao Votang have announced their first event as Tiny Park, a new nomadic gallery sometimes residing at their house [...]
Lynda Benglis at Texas Gallery
I am not going to rehash Lynda Benglis’ career, (for that see Roberta Smith’s NYT review of the New Museum Show), but she has been [...]
Alyce Santoro weaves old cassette tape into arts dollars for Spain
From now until August 30th West Texas-based “multimedia conceptual/sound artist and environmental/social activist” Alyce Santoro is accepting commissions from musicians, designers, architects, collectors to produce [...]
Seth Mittag, David Politzer, and Anne J. Regan chosen as new Lawndale residents
Houston’s Lawndale at Center has announced it’s latest crop of residents: Seth Mittag, David Politzer, and Anne J. Regan will each get nine months of [...]
Fertile (art) ground: What happens next on the other side of The Bridge?
For half of my life I’ve lived in Oak Cliff — a now hip and cool, but once bad-repped and socially misunderstood place that I’ve long [...]
Summer Laundry List
Its time to pour yourself a cocktail, slather on some sunscreen, and break out that worn copy of Valley Of The Dolls. The art world, [...]
Nizza Mosaic Studio latest addition to 11th St. arts corridor; grand opening Saturday
Joining a half-dozen galleries that have settled near the intersection of Studewood and 11th St. in Houston’s Heights neighborhood over the past ten years, the [...]
Arson as art criticism? Suspicious fire at Houston’s Galerie Mado Chalvet
Early this morning, the building that houses Galerie Mado Chalvet, that purveyor of impressionist-style “masterpieces” in Houston’s Westheimer strip, caught fire, requiring the efforts of [...]
Thomson on the Independent Arts Collaborative: will it quash independent arts?
Culturemap’s Steven Thomson questions whether the upscaling and combining of several of Houston’s important arts orgs into the new Independent Arts Collaborative building, now in [...]
Glasstire founder waves the online arts journalism banner in new NEA blog
Glasstire founder Rainey Knudson’s has been invited to blog on the NEA’s website; in her first post she explains the alarming decline among print journalists [...]
