Recent UH graduate Abby Lee loves graffiti, and she’s got six twenty-foot walls in her Commerce St. Studio, all painted white or light gray. She’s holding a graffiti free for…
August 2011
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Blaffer Blastoff!, the blog that the UH university museum is using to replace this year’s programming as it undergoes massive renovation, is dangling a new iPad (with a picture of…
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Cutler new Programs Coordinator at HCP, dust settles over ugly realities of East Texas arts politics.
Artist Christian Cutler has been selected as the new Curatorial and Programs Coordinator at the Houston Center for Photography, replacing Jason Dibley, who is stepping aside to to pursue other…
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I’ve been wanting to write about The Reading Room for some time now. Directly across from the Cotton Bowl and Exposition Park, The Reading Room is the antithesis to stadium…
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Part boosterism, part spontaneous arts event, part everyone-wants-a-holiday-in-the-summer, this year’s White Linen Night in the Heights has snowballed (in August!) into a sprawling, quasi-commercial, quasi-community conglomeration of events that now…
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Helmut Newton at the MFAH: It’s Pretty…Pretty Vacant
by Laura Larkby Laura LarkI generally try to be objective and somewhat professional when writing an art review. I probably don’t do a very good job of it, but I try. I decided to…
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Patience, in the traditional sense, is a virtue I’m not fortunate enough to possess. So much so that as a child I was set down and made to build model…
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Menil curator Kristina Van Dyke takes new job as Director of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis
Kristina Van Dyke, Curator for Collections and Research at The Menil Collection has been named the new Director of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, MO; she…
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Interning works: Sinai Tirado new Membership and Administrative Associate at Aurora Picture Show
Aurora picture show has promoted former intern Sinai Tirado to Membership and Administrative Associate. Sinai will be part of Aurora’s public face as office and screening greeter, as well as…
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Actors Playing Artists: Will The Real Andy Warhol Please Stand Up?
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisIn response to the record heat, I am trying to move as little as possible. Even body heat is the enemy. Therefore, engagement in anything cultural becomes problematic, so I…
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Outstanding teen education programs at Austin’s Arthouse have earned that org an invitation to the National Convening for Teens in the Arts organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA)…
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UT’s Blanton Museum drew the short straw and won twelve works by celebrated Texas artists through a lottery organized by the Dallas Museum of art to distribute some of Richard…
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Big Tex, the iconic tall Texan that towers over Fair Park in Dallas, was given a new suit of clothes yesterday in preparation for the upcoming Texas State Fair, and…
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Next Sunday, August 7, The University Art Galleries Department at Texas A&M is hosting a free workshop on Paper Coil Basket Making for youth ages 8 – 14, facilitated by…
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In a twist on the upsurge of multimedia approaches in contemporary art, the Houston Museum of Fine arts is retrofitting the classics to work together to create a new gallery…
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Box 13’s Kathryn Kelley will be the first artist in residence at Houston’s Darke gallery this summer. Kelley will have the gallery to use as a studio, along with a…
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Film Salon, a new course offered by the MFAH’s Glassell School of Art this fall, will sample a broad swath of classic movies on Saturday afternoons and Monday nights, dissecting…
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Itinerant, yet New York-based artist and writer Eric Zimmerman, an occasional Glasstire contributor, has been named editor of Fluent Collaborative’s journal . . .might be good, replacing Wendy Vogel, who,…