Wacky yard art is not an uncommon sight to Houston’s inner-loopers and, when it’s taken to the extreme—such as The Orange Show or the Beer Can House—is treasured. So when…
Paula Newton
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Houston’s independent Latina-made film festival kicks off tonight with a reception from 6-9pm at East End Studio Gallery. There will be art, vendors, refreshments, and a chance to win an…
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Cynthia Macdonald, co-founder of the University of Houston’s creative writing program, died earlier this month of heart failure, reports William Grimes in yesterday’s New York Times. Macdonald had a varied…
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Congratulations to Austin-based artist-duo Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, whose current exhibition at Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum, Sound Speed Marker, received a long, gushing review in the online art news…
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The elusive graffiti artist Banksy has created a theme park on the site of the Tropicana, which once was a public swimming pool in a town on England’s west coast.…
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Independent Curators International (ICI) just announced that Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), will be presented with the 2015 Leo Award this November for…
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The Phoenix Art Museum and its Director Amada Cruz, who resigned last year as executive director of San Antonio’s Artpace after two years, announced yesterday the hiring of Gilbert Vicario…
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Houston’s DiverseWorks has announced its “Fall 2015 Diverse Discourse Lecture and Studio Visit Series.” On September 23, DiverseWorks’ new Executive Director and Chief Curator Xandra Eden will speak about her…
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Marfa Live Arts has invited the performance collective Lower Left out to Marfa for a program of choreography inspired by the West Texas landscape. The collective is asking folks to…
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The unstoppable Clint Willour will receive the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Houston Fine Art Fair, (HFAF) which takes place September 9-12. Willour will be honored on Saturday,…
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Artist collectives are so popular now that spiders are joining in on the fun. In Lakeside Park South located in Rowlett, a suburb in Dallas, they have taken over the…
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Happy birthday, Snoopy! The most imaginative character from the late illustrator Charles Schulz’s beloved comic strip turns 65 today (although a few web sites claim it was actually August 4).…
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Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner and “shark” investor on the TV show Shark Tank, is now an artist, reports a recent Forbes article. Although Forbes estimates that Cuban is…
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On this date in 1928, Andrew Warhola, Jr. was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Happy birthday to Andy Warhol! Sing along! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDv0SHItG-4
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The Mellon Foundation has released the results of a new study assessing gender and ethnic diversity in museum staffs. Anyone who has ever worked in museums doesn’t need a study…
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Well, it seems like massive art fairs are here to stay. There are now so many that art travelers could hop around the globe year-round from convention center to convention…
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Hunting for sport is provoking a lot of controversy the past week or so, with the American dentist who paid $50,000 to kill Cecil the lion going into hiding, but…
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Professor Paglia Gives Mattress Performance a D, Calls it a “Parody” of Feminism
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIt seems like we haven’t heard so much from American academic and social critic Camille Paglia for a while. But the Donald Trump of feminism (self-described “dissident feminist,” although others…
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Kevin W. Tucker, who’s been at the Dallas Museum of Art since 2003 and was promoted to the position of The Margot B. Perot Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and…
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The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center’s annual open-call, juried exhibition, is always a great way to get a glimpse of the up-and-comers in the Houston art scene. For this year’s…