The Idea Fund has announced 12 grantees for its seventh round of funding the unfundable in Houston. Jurors for this round of grants were Ben Davis, writer, critic, and Executive…
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BlogEssayGlasstireOp Ed
The Long Slow Death of Kim Jong-un Vs. The Death of Comedy As We Know It: A Proposal
I am prepared to sit through thousands of good-to-terrible Kim Jong-un jokes for a year just to make a point.
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The San Antonio Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Anna Stothart as The Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. She’s currently Assistant Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art…
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I tried getting money from the Non-creative Arts Council of Houston. The NACHO people think their job is to turn artists into submissive, fear-based art-bureaucrats like them. Ugh. I'd rather hustle. At least I'd get to keep some self respect.
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Art and art-like objects offer a flurry of year-end holiday bliss at venues across Texas. Go buy some art!
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Now that Sony has cancelled the release of The Interview with “no further release plans” for the $44 million comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, there are a lot…
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Houston artists Troy Stanley and Tracey Conwell stood up before City Council and Houston Mayor Annise Parker on Tuesday to tell them something's wrong with the Houston Arts Alliance.
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It’s official—Merriam-Webster has declared the 2014 Word of the Year to be “culture.” People in the arts, of course, already knows what it means: a: enlightenment and excellence of taste…
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Rice University is set to open up its new multi-use art space, the Moody Center for the Arts, in early 2016 and has put out a call for applications for its…
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In conjunction with Science: Photography’s Influence on Science and Medicine, the Houston Center for Photography (HCP) is hosting a lecture by Dr. Eric R. Fossum tomorrow evening, December 17, at…
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Emptiness and woe in some of the pictures are invested with a poetic force and certain street scenes emit and reflect light like visionary theater settings.
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Last Thursday, three hundred people, Santa, and I gathered in the shadow of the Sabine St. Lofts in Houston, absorbing free beer, many smores, and a little hot chocolate as we waited to begin the Unsilent Night. Tonight, it's Austin's turn.
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It’s become common practice for Texas cities to designate artists as pre-qualified for upcoming public art initiatives based on a biannual Call for Submissions. The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs…
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Among the many listings in the recent post “The Almost-Complete List of Texas Holiday Arts and Crafts Fairs,” is the upcoming Holiday Mini Mart & Party at the Art League…
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I'm so mega-successful I don't even blow the foam off my own beer. Nowadays, between late-night massages, morning tennis lessons and afternoons at the yacht club, I barely have timeto be a creative genius. But it wasn't always this way.
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The Menil Collection‘s Byzantine Fresco Chapel has been empty since 2012, when the Menil deintstalled and sent back to Cyprus the 13th-century Greek Orthodox frescos it was built to house in 1997. The…
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The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Menil Collection $65,000 to support Barnett Newman: The Late Work, scheduled for March 27 – August 2, 2015.The exhibition, curated jointly…
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West Texas weather is the crazy doorman to Amarillo Ramp, and no one is on the list.
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The wildfires that burned in and around Bastrop in 2011 destroyed thousands of acres, homes, and businesses. Litigation around this disaster and funds gathered since then are resulting in a planned Lost…
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Little critters creep into the edges of this week's top five art events in Texas.