Perhaps forming the Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, LACMOCA, and saving two letters!? Talk about merging the two institutions has bobbed to the surface before, most recently in…
March 2013
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“It is hoped and anticipated that this simple act of driving through different parts of the city will bring about a greater awareness to the challenges facing Houstonians and initiate…
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Set your DVR or make plans to watch the world television premiere of Art Car: The Movie. Co-directors Ford Gunter and Carlton Ahrens traveled across the country talking to artists…
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dcU, a new program from the Dallas Contemporary, is bringing professors from North Texas colleges to speak on their topics of expertise at their monstrous Glass St. warehouse. Tickets are…
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Interview with contemporary artist Alan Reid
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The third annual Houston Fine Art Fair will move back to the George R. Brown Convention Center this fall, after being bumped to the Reliant Center in 2012. In HFAF’s…
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The Houston Arts Alliance is bringing in Randy Cohen, vice president of research and policy at American For the Arts, an advocacy org, to spread the gospel of quantitative surveys…
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On Tuesday, February 26, beginning at 7 a.m., The Art Guys walked the 29.6 miles of Little York Road, the longest street in Houston. Otis Ike, director of the upcoming…
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On March 7, Douglas Steel, founder of the iE Collective, will be lecturing at UT El Paso’s Rubin Center on the use of LED lighting as “an artistic approach to…
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The Houston Fringe Festival has just announced an open call for fringey performers and companies of all stripes for its 6th annual event in October. Describing the festival’s mission as…
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In light of Houston’s apparent difficulty with the nexus of trees and art, it was refreshing to attend a timely and thought-provoking performance-art event involving a tree in Guadalupe Plaza…
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The Houston art Alliance is looking for an army of volunteers to take part in their upcoming “social art action,” Konstantin Dimopoulos’ Blue Trees, at locations around Houston and Galveston.…
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Visual artist and songwriter Terry Allen has a new CD out- titled “Bottom of the World,” his first musical release since “Salivation” in 1998. Andrew Dansby had a detailed track-by-track…
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Passing by The Breakfast Klub last week, I did a double take at Reginald Adams’ newest mural of President Obama. As a community art project, a target of vandalism and…
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The art historian and scholar Thomas McEvilley died yesterday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York. He was 73 years old. A national figure and author of numerous monographs, essays…
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Architect and art collector Bill Stern died Friday, of pancreatic cancer. He was 66. Stern moved to Houston in 1976, immediately finding a place in the booming city’s cultural crust.…
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Twenty Questions: David McGee, What I’d Change About the Artworld
by Glasstireby GlasstireHouston Artist David McGee wishes artists felt less dependent on accpetance by institutions and audiences as a measure their success.
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I recently had the chance to get into the studio of artist and friend Michael Anthony García. Our conversation about his most recent work for People’s Gallery at the City…
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Twenty-six venues across Corpus Christi are participating in that city’s month-long event, Organized by K Space Contemporary and K Space Board Member Lynda Jones. While the fest’s website is still…
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Dallas Contemporary Taps Local Street Artists For Two Mural Projects: Sour Grapes and JMR to Paint Belmont Hotel
The Dallas Contemporary has announced that it will commission Dallas-based street artists JMR and SOUR GRAPES to each paint 60+ feet of an existing wall at the Belmont Hotel as…