As award-winning singer John Legend said during a recent visit to Texas to launch his initiative, FREE AMERICA, “They say everything is bigger in Texas. Unfortunately, that extends to the…
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Dallas real estate developer and conservative philanthropist Harlan Crow is also a serious collector of historic memorabilia and a small part of his collection has put him in international headlines…
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The 2015 Houston Fringe Festival returns for its eighth annual celebration of weirdness in the arts. It is a 5-day performance feast (September 23-27) taking place in the East End…
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HAA Announces Phase 2 GRB Commission (Let’s see if this one sticks.)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonYesterday, the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) announced that Joe O’Connell + Creative Machines was recently awarded the $1.34 million commission to create a major exterior artwork as part of the…
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On top of the success of Texas Design Now at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), AIGA Houston (the local chapter of the professional association for design) has declared it…
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This Sunday is the 18th annual Austin Museum Day! More than forty museums will be free all day from 10am to 5pm with special tours and activities. All the big…
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Houston is participating in World PARK(ing) Day, which is Friday, September 18. On PARK(ing) Day, artists, activists and citizens will temporarily transform metered parking spaces into public parks and other…
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There’s yet another important lecture series and this one is called “Till Now: Contemporary Art in Context.” Maybe it’s basic stuff; maybe not. It starts off tomorrow evening with Claire…
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The Board of Directors of Houston’s Lawndale Art Center announced the appointment of Stephanie Schumann Mitchell as Executive Director. Before relocating to Houston with her husband, Mitchell co-directed the first…
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As much as art grad school students may complain, most of them know that architecture students have it tougher. They have more rigorous assignments, stay up all nights making precise…
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Houston-based artist Christian Eckart has put together an exhibition at Los Angeles’ Wilding Cran Gallery called “…a pointy toe boot up the backside” POST-ABSTRACTION FROM HOUSTON, which will open tomorrow.…
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So what really does go on in your brain when you make art and view art? University of Houston (UH) engineering professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal wants to find out. He,…
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After sculptor Jesús Moroles was killed in a car crash in June, students at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO)—the “college for the curious mind”—are working hard…
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Only a couple of months after the Alamo was designated a UNESCO U.S. World Heritage site, deeming it of “outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity,”…
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On Thursday, President Obama will award ten National Humanities Medals in a ceremony at the White House. The medal, inaugurated in 1997, “honors an individual or organization whose work has…
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When the Menil Collection snagged independent curator Franklin Sirmans in 2006 to give him a real job as its curator of modern and contemporary art, he had already co-curated such…
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Only days after Houston graffiti artist GONZO247 announced that he and Carolyn Casey-Figueroa have established The Graffiti and Street Art Museum of Texas (GASAM), some ugly street art has been…
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A fire broke out early Tuesday morning at the Art Forum of Waco, a gallery with studio spaces, reports the Waco Tribune Herald. The Waco fire marshall states that an…
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Today marks the second annual World Art Drop Day. It’s been done before here and there but, last year, illustrator Jake Parker declared the first Tuesday in September to be…
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Budding Architects and Environmentalists: Lend a Hand in Big Bend Country!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Adobe Alliance is looking for volunteers to help rebuild the fallen vault at Swan House & Lab, in Presidio, Texas. The work visa for Mexican engineer Fernando Pina was…