The Awesome Foundation has arrived in Houston, and they’re handing out money. Here’s how it works: basically, it’s a micro-funding club; ten “trustees” get together, each donating $100 per month.…
September 2012
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The second annual Houston Fine Art Fair opens to the public today at Reliant Center, exhibit hall C. Hoping to beat last year’s total of 10,500 visitors, the fair features…
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Two months ago, The Station Museum’s Artifactual Realities closed. Unfortunately, I first visited the exhibition a couple weeks before the end and only had a short time to really absorb…
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To accompany the honor of being selected the 2012 Texas Artist of the Year by Art League Houston, Aaron Parazette has transformed the Art League gallery space with a dynamic,…
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Along with a new Director, a new space, a new Assistant Curator, and a new Director of External Affairs, venerable Houston alterna-space Diverseworks has just announced a new artist board.…
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Los Angeles’ Getty Center is free; it’s parking at the remote hilltop facility that costs, and apparently on purpose. After the Getty raised its parking fees over the summer, protests…
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The Art Center of Corpus Christi is celebrating their 40th Birthday on Thursday, September 27th, just before their revived Art Jamboree festival, and is trying to track down the original…
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The Houston Fine Art Fair’s Artweek kicked off yesterday with a Blaffer Blow Out with Houston Young People for the Arts (HYPA). It’s just the first of a “a non-stop,…
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For episode 5 of ‘Gallery Girls’, let’s begin by discussing Maggie’s attempt to leave the clutches of Eli Klein. After taking a quick trip with her boyfriend to visit her…
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Dave Hendricks of The McAllen Monitor recounts the story of Roel Recio, an artist working as a laborer at NIU Urban Living, a furniture store in McAllen, whose concept for…
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Martin Parr’s newish book, Up and Down Peachtree, represents the South’s shiny capital with a mix of mean-spiritedness and generosity that recalls Richard Avedon’s long-ago treatment of the American West.…
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Shepard Fairey has avoided jail time in the aftermath of his misdemeanor criminal contempt conviction on Sept 7. Fairey was sentenced to two years’ probation, 300 hours of community service,…
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Next Friday and Saturday, representatives from Houston area schools and big local arts orgs confer to create successful partnership programs that aim to elevate student achievement through art. The two-day…
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Chuck Ivy presents his 2012 Glasstire Virtual Residency. I consider myself a research artist, developing rules, frameworks and systems with which I investigate media and culture. Through a balance of…
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The Southwest Alternative Media Project (SWAMP) is launching a Citzen-Filmmaker Competition in honor of it’s 35th Anniversary and invites everyone to compete. The rules are simple: using a mobile device…
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Phil Ross (San Francisco) works in the realm of “biotechniques.” He makes sculptural and architectural works from plants and fungi, and videos about live cultures. As the founder and director…
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News
Andy Warhol Foundation to sell off remaining works: Collectors fear market plunge, Auctioneers see online Goldrush
The Andy Warhol Foundation announced its plans to sell off an estimated 20,000 Warhol works it owns, a week after its innovative partnership with Target to license limited edition Warhol-style…
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Steven Evans Leaving Linda Pace Foundation, Ballroom Marfa’s Fairfax Dorn to Step in as Interim Program Director
Steven Evans is leaving his post as managing director and curator of the Linda Pace Foundation to “pursue other opportunities” after just two years in the saddle. Fairfax Dorn, co-founder…
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Culture Wars, Down Under: If a sculpture decays in the outback, and no one’s there to see it . . .
The Courier-Mail, an Australian newspaper, is trying to whip taxpayers into an anti-art boil over British artist Andy Goldworthy’s Strangler Cairn, a bullet-shaped granite cairn in the Australian outback, commissioned…
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Hey y’all. This morning, I went to an intro to meditation workshop held at Shambhala Center Los Angeles. I woke up early to go! To a meditation workshop! it felt…