The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has announced the Houston Art Car Parade’s 2014 Grand Marshall: Houston Mayor Annise Parker. As the Grand Marshall of the parade, Mayor Parker will…
April 2014
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It is the most unsurprising and natural thing that, in our consciousness, we would conjure something in the universe, over and over again.
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What a great combo: art/words/noise—the major genres of art-making all on the same plate. Such is the stuff of MenilFest, the annual, one-day festival that’s held on the Menil Collection’s…
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Like the candy machines and kiddy rides, Trailer relies absolutely on novelty. But, while the novelty lasts, it's fabulous.
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The 25th Annual Map Fund Awards, which distributes grants to artists in the field of contemporary performance, has announced its 2014 recipients, including Houston artist Allison Orr, director of Forklift…
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Lawrence Schovanec, Texas Tech provost, has announced that W. Brent Lindquist will be the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences beginning July 15. Lindquist comes to Lubbock by…
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Artists are always looking for cheap retail space to mount shows on their own, outside of the gallery system. Typically, they scour the tangle of streets near cultural urban centers,…
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An intelligent and enjoyable look at symbolic thinking and performance art. I encourage you to hurry—the exhibition ends May 3rd.
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Art on view during last weekend’s Sor Juana Festival in Austin shed the spotlight on the importance of art as a form of therapy and rehabilitation in prison. Now prison…
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In response to the growing number of arts organizations in Houston in need of marketing support, Fresh Arts has developed a program that will help groom three select small organizations with the…
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Chinelo Ikejimba studied dance and interns at Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum.
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BlogGlasstireOp Ed
Artforum Weighs in on the Dallas Art Fair: There are No Artists Here
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekThe yearly Artforum society column relaying the DAF goings-on makes for some of the year’s best navel gazing.
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To fully appreciate the works, one must be vulnerable to the guilt they elicit.
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The Houston photographer has a knack for being vulnerable and tough at the same time.
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One of the major difficulties facing a Texas artist is getting your work out of Texas and into wider art world networks. Residencies are available all over the globe, true,…
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Yesterday, Randy Tibbits of the Houston Press took the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Menil to task for failing to show Houston artists. Museum visitors to our city (and…
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The artist behind the recent Prada Marfa vandalization, Joe Magnano, also known as 9271977, is scheduled to stand trial for his West Texas art antics next Friday, May 2, at…
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In commemoration of the one year anniversary of the collapse of an eight story garment factory in Bangladesh, which killed 1134 workers and injured at least 2515, textile artists Monika…