The Rothko Chapel in Houston will host a Twilight Meditation and International Women’s Day Celebration on Wednesday, March 8, from 6-7:30 p.m. Pre-regristration is here. “Join the Chapel for a…
February 2017
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Review
‘Friendly Fire’ at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteEven though this show opened three days before the election, it’s as if it anticipated the outcome—and it quietly poses questions about how to exist in this new dystopian paradigm.
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News
Self-Portraits, Doggies, World Leaders—Now Vets: George W. Keeps Painting!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAfter mixed reviews about his new painting career, former President George W. Bush is unveiling a new book “honoring the sacrifice and courage of America’s military veterans,” which features 66…
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These sculptures act like still frames in a larger story that stars, finally, all of the people milling about them in the museum.
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The University of Houston Library’s Special Collections department recently announced that it has acquired Zine Fest Houston’s records. The collection consists primarily of zines, ephemera and print items, some of which date…
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Review
Not Just Naked People: Experimental Action Performance Art Festival in Houston
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechExA filled a niche that Houston has a long history of but has recently lacked: a strong presentation of young and subversive performance art.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and State Senator Lois Kolkhorst announced the filing of SB6 early this year. Called the “Texas Privacy Act” or the “bathroom bill,” it seeks to ban…
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Houston art space DiverseWorks has announced the details for its spring 2017 Diverse Discourse Lecture and Studio Visit program. On April 12, Claudia La Rocco, a poet, critic, performer, and Editor-in-Chief of…
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Every year, the ReUse People of America host a National Reuse Contest where applicants compete to see who can make the best use of upcycled materials. The competition is broken down into two…
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With International Discoveries VI, FotoFest in Houston draws together thirteen emerging artists, many exhibiting in the U.S. for the first time, who grapple with the conceptual and material particularities of photography.
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David Lindsay, artist and art professor at Texas Tech in Lubbock, has developed and soft-launched a really clever new smartphone app that allows artists to create site-specific works that…
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Last week, vandals really messed up 125-year-old stone landmarks in the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas, reports the Texas Hill Country. The ruins were of the homes of quicksilver miners…
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From growing up in a doomsday cult in Montana to almost accidentally (and deservingly) finding his way into a BFA and MFA from SMU by 2004, the acclaimed Brooklyn-based artist Lionel Maunz will…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a rattlesnake roundup, a surprise rural art collection, and the trickiness of performance art.
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The Moody Center for the Arts, described by Houston’s Rice University as an “interdisciplinary center [that] will provide space for arts education, performances and gallery exhibitions on campus and promote…
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News
WH Plans to Eliminate NEA and NEH as Examples of “Wastes of Taxpayer Money”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWord has it that the White House budget office has included the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities on a list…
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On Saturday March 4, the Department of Art and the Student Art Association of Sam Houston State University will host its sixth annual interactive Art Walk along University Avenue in Huntsville, featuring…
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The MFAH screens early films by father of African cinema, Ousmane Sembène.
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The American Craft Council announced its 2017 Emerging Voices Awards and San Antonio’s Jennifer Ling Datchuk was honored as the emerging artist of the year. The Council awards one artist…
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It really is an indictment of our culture that this seems perfectly natural and incredibly entertaining. And it is entertaining.