This iconic and storied Houston art space ain’t going out without a bang.
February 2014
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The Menil Collection unveiled plans for its new freestanding drawing institute on Wednesday and the reviews are starting to come in. One might think that Culturemap Houston’s hometown familiarity with…
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An internal dialogue between the values Grant believes she's supposed to uphold and the internal thoughts that may or may not contradict them. The viewer is just listening in.
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art, the oldest privately supported art museum in the US, has reached a preliminary agreement with the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University (GWU)…
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Most people in the arts actually visit museums, but many others experience images—even museum paintings that art history students initially learned from textbooks—almost exclusively through the Internet. Today, the Amon…
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I rolled into Dallas on Saturday, just as many of the city's project spaces and galleries had their openings. It was also the beginning of the Dallas Biennial or DB14.
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Two Hums Make a Whole: DiverseWorks to Present Sound Performances in the Sky and Underground
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAnd when you’re in tune, you’re in tune. -Bonnie Barnett to the LA Times on a HUM performance in a MacArthur Park tunnel One of the many, crazily ambitious avant-garde…
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Like a lot of people who work in the arts, University of Texas Art History Professor Ann Collins Johns was a little perturbed at President Obama when he dissed art…
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I'm using my Glasstire soapbox to jumpstart the discussion by putting a few on the table ahead of time.
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Artists Unite! It’s Tonight! Houston’s Artist Town Hall Meeting
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonHouston artists should be finishing up their lists of hopes, dreams, and gripes because this evening is the “Artist Town Hall Meeting,” organized by Fresh Arts and Art League Houston.…
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On Sunday, a visitor walked into the Ai Weiwei: According to What? exhibition at the new Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), picked up a vase and, when approached by security,…
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The City of Austin is looking for a professional artist, or artist team, to design and fabricate artwork for the city’s Montopolis Neighborhood Center. Through its Art in Public Places…
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Bianconi entered a black duct-taped box. The box started jerking, being punched or kicked from the inside. Crisply folded white paper airplanes launched from within began peppering the wine-plied room.
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To draw attention to its current exhibition Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is holding an old-fashioned photo contest. Of the 80 works…
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Lacoste, LeTigre and Louis Vuitton are his imaginary friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.
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Louise Blouin seems to be in trouble these days. Her reputation as an employer is so clouded that when the CEO of Blouin Media, publisher of Artinfo.com and Art +…
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Who are these people? Where do they come from? What are they hoping to get? Videographer and animator Albert Sosa finds out in his new video series on artworld interns.
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Those still scrambling for a unique Valentine’s Day experience might consider contacting Brightwork CoResearch to see if there is still space in this evening’s “Sweet on Science” workshop (6-8 pm).…
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Blogger Transcribes Sheet Music from Tiny Butt in Hieronymus Bosch Painting
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonYes, this is LITERALLY the 600-year-old butt song from hell.
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After the successes of the scrappy East Austin Studio Tour (EAST), WEST has been picking up steam. May 10-11 and 17-18 will mark the third incarnation of the West Austin…