Wanted: Awsomeness- New Giving Club Offers $1000 Reward
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, [...]
Houston Fine Art Fair Opens Today
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 [...]
No room for Vader; Mel Chin’s Funk and Wag
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 [...]
Art League: Texas Artist and Patrons of the Year 2012
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 [...]
Reinvigoration, Revitalization, or Just a Clean Sweep? Diverseworks Announces New Artist Board
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 [...]
“Free” Getty Collected $6.4 million in Parking Fees in 2011
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 [...]
Art Center of Corpus Christi Seeking Long Lost Charter Members for Birthday Party Sept 27
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 [...]
HFAF Artweek is now: Chin/Cheney Face Off on Asian Art Tonight!
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 [...]
‘Gallery Girl’ on “Gallery Girls,” Episode 5
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 [...]
Once Upon a Time in the Rio Grande Valley: Roel Recio’s Cinderella Story
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 [...]
As goes Avedon, so goes Parr?
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 [...]
Shepard Fairey, Eloquent in Remorse, Avoids Jail in HOPE Poster Case
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, [...]
Houston Arts Partners 2012 Conference Connects Schools, Arts Orgs on September 14-15
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 [...]
2012 Glasstire Virtual Residency: Chuck Ivy
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 [...]
SWAMP Citizen Filmmaker Competition: One-Week Alterna-Cam Contest Starts TODAY!
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 [...]
The Future is Fungal: Interview with Phil Ross
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Chupacabrona, California. (One.)
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 [...]
