Texas’ Slice of the NEA Pie , 2012
Along with symphonies, dance companies, and theater groups, visual arts projects in Texas got a share of the 863 National Endowment for the Arts Grants [...]
Art Target of Pepper Spray Protests: Seurat, Munch Achieve Timeless Meme Status
NPR reported yesterday that images of Lt. John Pike of the UC Berkeley Campus Police, instantly notorious for his part in pepper-spraying student protesters Friday, [...]
NEA Awards VBB $20,000 for 2012 Living Room Art Productions
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded Houston arts org Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB) a $20,000 grant to develop and produce their Living Room [...]
Archive of Shadows: Andrew Douglas Underwood at SMU
If you were to go into the Hawn Gallery in the Hamon Arts Library at SMU right now, you’d think you’d entered an exhibit of some of [...]
Knitta, Please: My Girl Crush on Magda Sayeg
In any new issue of Texas Monthly, the first item I turn to is “Object Lesson,” Kristie Ramirez’s regular piece on the trinkets and baubles [...]
Reality Is Only A Rorschach Ink-Blot, You Know: Lisa Choinacky at Co-Lab
The final buzzer is about to ring and there is a very small window of time to go and see Reality Is Only A Rorschach [...]
A NEW HOME FOR CINEMA Houston’s Sundance Cinemas Open This Week
The new Sundance Cinemas open this Wednesday, in time for the long holiday weekend. Located Downtown at Bayou Place, Sundance promises to more than fill [...]
Sebastian’s Big, Big X on Tex Mex Border
The El Paso Times reports that two big red steel blocks, visible across the Rio Grande in Juarez, Mexico, are the roots of a mammoth [...]
MFAH’s Benevolent Ancestors Gift $1.2 Million in Art at One Great Night Event
Given the lack of couture to comment on, Culturemap society reporter Shelby Hodge details the bentleys, cigars, and the art purchased at the MFAH’s all-male [...]
The Guerilla Curators
This last April I attended a curators’ symposium in Austin during the Texas Biennial. It was a day-long series of panel discussions and presentations hosted [...]
Your Ultimate Holiday Shopping Guide: TX Museum Gift Shop Edition
Wherever we go in Texas, we always make time for the museum gift shops. Our museum shops reliably have some of the most fun, unique [...]
Bible Belt Bauble Highlights Art World Inequities, Guardian Calls for Revolution!
The Guardian (UK) is taking an interest in the new Crystal Bridges Museum, focusing on the controversy surrounding the perceived inequities in Walmart heir Alice [...]
Notes on E.A.S.T.
The E.A.S.T Austin studio tour is a vast and sprawling affair that extends all over the east side (just check out the crazy map). I [...]
350 Words: “Seriality” at UTD
Seriality, curated by John Pomara, presents the work of ten primarily North Texas artists who embrace seriality through form, process and content. A few of [...]
Art Gay Marries a Woman: Britt Counter-Ceremony Tonight; Art Guys Marry a Plant Dedication Tomorrow
Houston Chronicle art critic Douglas Britt has found a partner for his counter-ceremony and plans to marry female art publicist Reese Darby tonight at 10:30pm [...]
WHAM, BASH, Holiday CASH!
‘Tis the season to make money . . . and artists, galleries and orgs across the state are as busy as elves, devising promotions and [...]
MFAH Education Uptick: Opens New Downstairs Edu-Center, Wins Grant for Digital Literacy Lab
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has opened its new Kinder Foundation Education Center in the lower tunnels outside the Brown Auditorium Theater. With futuristic [...]
Nostalgia for the Light
This past weekend I went on a film binge and took in a documentary a day for Houston’s Cinema Arts Festival. The highlight for me [...]
Looking Back: Gee’s Bend Quilts
Randomly opening Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, takes me to a page with an image of an asymmetrical quilt overflowing with indigo, magenta [...]
Dallas Artists Get Their Gaultier On at DMA’s Late Night Friday
Oak Cliff designers Julie McCullough and Neely Coker of Make + Made and stylist Marisa Dukowitz created an outdoor installation at the DMA’s Flora Street [...]
