It’s official: ArtPrize Dallas is kaput for now, due to insufficient funding. Frank Artsmarter, the elusive figure behind the competing ArtSmarter Prize, claims responsibility for the demise of the Dallas offshoot…
October 2015
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Well worth an hour of your life: the video of Off Road, a conversation between LACMA director Michael Govan and artist Robert Irwin, hosted by Glasstire in Houston on October 17, 2015.
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Today is the day you’ve all been waiting for. Don your cliché Warhol costume, grab two armfuls of candy (because you’re an adult) and go forth into the night. If…
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According to the Artadia Houston 2015 timeline, applications were due October 15 and Houston awardees will be announced at the end of November. But ARTnews reports that the jurors have…
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A major challenge for participating Aurora artists was that the work had to be immediately accessible to the public within a few seconds.
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Our Man Michael Govan Thinks That a Curatorial Studies Degree is Kinda Useless
by Glasstireby GlasstireLos Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan (who was in Houston a couple of weeks ago with Robert Irwin for Glasstire’s ragingly successful Off Road evening) isn’t wowed…
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Artist Sam Gilliam Comes to Houston to Talk Some Serious City History
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonMenil Curator of Collections Paul R. Davis will talk with D.C.–based artist Sam Gilliam tomorrow evening at 7pm about his work in the Menil’s current exhibition, Affecting Presence and the…
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This week, in the spirit of Halloween, Christina Rees and Brandon Zech battle faceless ghouls, life-threatening performance art, and zombies (of course).
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Mel Chin (Houston native and prolific artist) in his project currently on view at 516 Arts, a non-profit in Albuquerque, NM, is proposing a renewable energy plan based on solar energy,…
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"Birds sing in the tree, but they don’t need to learn how to, right?"
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Yesterday, the Houston Chronicle posted an editorial called “Bad impression” and the folks at the Chronicle don’t seem to have a very good impression of the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA).…
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POSTPONED: Before the Halloween Parties, Catch up on Some Sleep with Andy Warhol
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIf you’ve never seen more than a still or a clip from Andy Warhol’s 1963 avant-garde film Sleep, now is your chance to experience the full 5 ½ hour epic…
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What does it mean for an artist to be simultaneously unnecessary and exploited?
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Fast on the heels of Sarah Sudhoff leaving Houston Center for Photography last week, it will be announced today that Jenni Rebecca Stephenson is also stepping down as director from Fresh Arts…
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Before there were those goofy painting parties with wine where you can get tipsy enough to attempt to copy the teacher’s seascape, there was the soothing voice and impressive ‘fro…
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We couldn’t help but respond to Rainey Knudson’s recent op ed about Debtfair because she describes a project that we would not want to participate in. We see a different…
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The American Genre Film Archive in Austin rescues 35mm film prints and celebrates outrageous and overlooked cinema.
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Pablo Picasso was born 134 years ago today. We thought about posting some inspirational quotes from the man himself (“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a…
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Does the pressure of your debts distract you from your daily work? Has the pressure of your debts ever caused you to consider getting drunk? Do you justify your debts…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has recently opened a new exhibition. Entitled The Collectivity Project, by artist Olafur Eliasson, the interactive installation consists of more than 580,000 Lego bricks that…