Ex-Arthouse Director Graze to Teach Grad Seminar at UT
The Austin-American Statesman’s Jeanne Claire van Ryzin reports that longtime Arthouse Director Sue Graze will be teaching a graduate seminar at UT called “Staying in [...]
Stuff to See: Holiday Edition, Part II
More highlights from what’s up around town right now. Check out these shows as you do your holiday shopping, or do your holiday shopping at [...]
Spot-the-Texans Game is On as Whitney Announces 2012 Biennial List
The 51 Artists selected for the 2012 Whitney Biennial, opening March 1, have been announced: Kai Althoff, Thom Andersen, Charles Atlas, Lutz Bacher, Forrest Bess [...]
Car-avaggio of American Sculpture John Chamberlain is dead at 84
The Master of Mashed Metal, the Car-avaggio of Crushed Steel, relentlessly lowbrow and matter of fact about his work despite years of international acclaim, John [...]
Art Guys Respond to Tree Vandalism: “That’s Just Wrong”
In an interview with Houston’s Culturemap, The Art Guys respond to the string of protests and vandalism that have marred the installation of their piece Art [...]
OCCUPY POTTERSVILLE
It’s easy to remember only the sweet, cheery and teary moments of Director Frank Capra’s 1946 film, It’s A Wonderful Life, and forget that it [...]
West Texas LAND Part 1
A couple of weeks ago, two friends and I traveled to West Texas to look at art. I was once an intern at the Chinati [...]
Independent Arts Collaborative Picks Architects for Houston Multi-Arts Facility
The Independent Arts Collaborative has selected San Antonio’s limestone-loving Lake+Flato (who designed the remodel for UH’s Mitchell Center for the Arts) and Houston theater-and-chapel specialists [...]
Performers Thank God for Doris Duke: New Initiative to Grant (Another) $50 Million Over 10 Years
As a part of its new $50 million Performing Artsits Initiative, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is teaming up with Creative Capital to hand out [...]
LMC y Pensamientos pochosos: The beginning
I had to think long and hard about what to title this blog. I’ve never been good with titles, and this was certainly no exception. [...]
Crystal Bridges: Don Bacigalupi, Art, Arkansas, Populism and Wal Mart
When art people ask, “Where did you grow up?” and I answer, “Arkansas,” there is, invariably, an awkward pause. It is usually followed by “Oh.” [...]
Buffalo Bayou to Become $55 Million Wonderland: Like Central Park, But Sometimes Underwater!
Houston’s Buffalo Bayou Partnership has gotten the green light from city council for a $55 million makeover of the most-viewed segment of the city’s semi-scenic [...]
Why Ladies Get in Free, or The Nonprofit Art Space as Platform in a Two-Sided Market
Why do “ladies” always get in free? Because dance clubs serve a two-sided market. On one side of the market, men, on the other, women. [...]
A Very Havemeyer Christmas
Christmas has never been my bag. Growing up, my Jewish stepmother would look out the window on Christmas morning and in mock desdain remark, “I [...]
Big Ol’ Horseshoe Getting Older, Chinati Seeking Donations to Restore Desert-Ravaged Oldenburg Monument
Since 1991, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Monument to the Last Horse has stood at the center of the Chinati collection, a bit of [...]
Stark Museum goes LED, Ditches Wall Carpeting for Mod Color
The Stark Museum of Art in Orange has spiffed up its galleries and library, and they’re inviting the public to a Grand Viewing on Thursday, [...]
Lawrence Lee and Jonathan Cross at Barry Whistler Gallery
Lawrence Lee and Jonathan Cross are art dopplegangers. While they look nothing alike, the trajectories of their art careers have played out in very similar [...]
Occupy This! The Art of Social Protest Friday in Houston
Tomorrow, Friday December 16, Occupy This! will take over The Axelrad Building at the intersection of Almeda and W. Alabama in Houston from 8-11:30pm. It’s [...]
Stuff to See: Holiday Edition, Part I
There’s a lot of art out there now but here’s a quick overview of the good, the great, and the pretty darn respectable on view in [...]
Austin Reel Change Film Frenzy Looking for Teams of Frenzied Filmmakers
What do you get when ten teams of filmmakers team up with ten nonprofit orgs to make ten films in 48 hours? The first-ever Reel [...]
