Para leer este artículo en español, por favor vaya aquí. To read this article in Spanish, please go here. “Walking, in particular drifting, or strolling, is already – with the speed…
November 2012
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The independent film festival “Senorita Cinema” has been selected to receive one of seven $1000 grants from Neighborhood Centers Inc. The festival allows Latinas to take control of their own…
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I’ve long thought of clay as a very specific medium. By “medium specific” I’m recalling the critic Clement Greenberg’s term as he defined it in his 1961 essay Modernist Painting.…
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This letter appeared in Raid the Archive: The de Menil Years at Rice. I was told it would make me cry with disappointment at what could have been. At the Rice Media…
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News
Dogpile of Claimants Sue Eccentric Amarillo Art Patron Stanley Marsh 3 Over Alleged Sexual Misdeeds
The New York Times has picked up on a blossoming Amarillo imbroglio: Stanley Marsh 3 is accused of sexual misbehavior with eight young men, according to lawsuits filed in recent…
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According to a media statement released today by Dallas’ Museum Tower, David Haemisegger, President of the Board of Trustees of the Nasher Sculpture Center cancelled a Tuesday meeting to discuss…
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Intrepid local TV news reporters tracked Uriel Landeros to Monterrey, where he is hiding out from charges of felony graffiti and criminal mischief in Houston after allegedly spray painting over…
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I ran around E.A.S.T. Sunday afternoon, the last day of the annual Austin arts festival. It was a sunny and beautiful day–perfect for wandering about and looking at local art.…
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Houston native fashion designer Hyden Yoo has created sweaters exclusively for CAMH’s gallery attendants. The unique, understated pullovers have been worn by the museum’s guards since earlier this year, when…
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The Awesome Foundation‘s Houston chapter has awarded a $1000 grant to New Collective Texas, a curatorial partnership comprised of Flournoy and , to create the first of a series of…
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ArticleReview
“Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin: Pretty Much Everything” at the Dallas Contemporary
When I walked into the Dallas Contemporary for Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin’s solo exhibition, Pretty Much Everything, I wasn’t totally sure what to expect, but as an art…
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In a recent newsletter, Talento Bilingüe de Houston outlined a confusing staff scramble with the enforced calm of a flight attendant explaining that the wings have come off- including phrases…
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Author’s Disclaimer: As a practicing sculptor I spend a fair amount of time involved in what can only be described as “donkey work” and while I have to pay attention…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is being sued by two of its members who claim that the museum intentionally makes it difficult to understand that the $25…
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News
HAA Crowd-Funding Site Online in Time For the Holidays: Power2give.org Makes One-Stop Giving Easy
Houston Arts Alliance’s crowd-funding site is up and running. Months in the making, the site allows web users to browse through projects proposed by Houston non-profits, and make online donations,…
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Cody Ledvina visits the studio of Seth Alverson. Sort of.
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Everyone knows The San Antonio Museum of Art has a great collection of Chinese ceramics, but over the past couple years they’ve been acquiring a respectable selection of new contemporary…
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Houston Center for Contemporary Craft has added newly-minted University of Georgia grad Kathryn Hall to their staff as their new Curatorial Fellow. The three-year position that offers experience in curating…
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News
Mom O’Twins, Assistant Curator Lady, and Wannabe Hoofer Nicole Atzbach Promoted to Curator at Meadows Museum
The Meadows Museum has promoted Nicole Atzbach to the position of Curator, from Assistant Curator, a position she has held since 2010, when she joined the museum from the Kimbell…
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In Toronto, a panel of five city staffers with backgrounds in “the arts, urban design, architecture and other relevant disciplines” has been officially set up to decide on issues of…