The iPhone app store’s first birthday is July 11, and what better way to celebrate than by downloading apps created by Texas animators? (Okay, there are probably plenty of better…
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Councilmember Sue Lovell recently announced the City of Houston’s new graffiti website, complete with surprisingly detailed fast facts. For example, did you know the average age of the…
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…except for when he wasn’t. An oversimplication? Yeah, sure. I assume there’s more of the picture at "Dr. Seuss Wants You!" the exhibition at the Holocaust Museum Houston…
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In honor of Andrea Grover’s upcoming screening of Astrodome movies at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, I’ve composed a brief ode to the Eighth Wonder’s scoreboard. The Astrodome…
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Eight Things We Learned about Artists from Watching Television
by Roy Neinastby Roy NeinastAll cultural products mirror their society, but perhaps none more so than television. After all, when’s the last time you went to Mexico and didn’t see big-breasted women hanging out…
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A couple of Houston public-art deadlines loom: The Houston Arts Alliance and the convention folks are looking for short videos to be displayed on flat-screens around the George R. Brown.…
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So there’s this swine flu thing, maybe you’ve heard about it… I was feeling topical yesterday evening, and I started doing my thing on the Internet (it’s a gift),…
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If you don’t know what Twitter is, you’ve probably never been on the Internet, but you’re somehow reading this sentence, and, well, that’s what you’d call a paradox. Anyway, I’ve…
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Some thoughts on street artists who also sell T-shirts, listed with numbers in front to feign intellectual rigor: 1.) I don’t think there’s anything wrong with making money…
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Where’s our bailout? Oh, wait, here it is. The Texas Commission on the Arts, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, has set aside some cash for…
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Ah, those abstract nouns. Truth. Justice. Beauty. Hope. Liberty. Good. Bad. Whatever. They’re all so open to interpretation, and they’re all so meaningless when designated as the theme for a…
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No matter that the City of Austin covered them in plastic before South by Southwest; those poles on Sixth Street never stood a chance.
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Bad news from Austin: The Shepard Fairey mural, originally scheduled to be installed on Thursday, March 19, on the UT Art Building, has been postponed indefinitely. Here’s part of…
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All right, so maybe with erotic art it’s much easier to titillate (zing!) the senses, but that didn’t stop me from thinking Aerosol Warfare’s “Broken Heart Erotic Art Show” was…
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Last week, while writing about the new fountains at 1100 Louisiana, I promised I’d follow up in the event I heard back from property owner Hines Interests. Call me…
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Anyone else out there glad Houston moved Jean Dubuffet’s Monument au Fantome from 1100 Louisiana to Discovery Green? Ever since I was a kid, I’ve thought Monument au Fantome…
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Call it 9/11 for the Houston art world. Okay, don’t, since that would be really inappropriate and way out of line. Maybe Pearl Harbor. No, that’s not right either. What…
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You don’t wanna mess with Houston when it comes to the oil industry (we’re looking at you, Dubai), and the locals boys and girls at Morris Architects have helped drive…
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Some random, probably unoriginal questions about Cildo Meireles‘s Mission/Missions (How to Build Cathedrals) at the Blanton: Eight hundred communion wafers. Two thousand cattle bones. Eighty paving stones. Six hundred…