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Rodriguez & Ledvina: Ecstatically Exuding Exuberance
Rudolph Projects / Artscan Gallery
Opens Friday, Feb. 5, 6-8 pm
Through March 5.
(713) 807-1836
Come laugh it off at Rudolph Projects Artscan Gallery with a show by two art jokesters- Matthew Rodriguez and Cody Ledvina. Sarcasm and absurdities abound in playful attempt to comment on and mask the weight of the world. Rodriguez's found object collages and mixed media compositions are knowingly simplistic, hilarious and cartoonish. Cody Ledvina, co-owner of the increasingly infamous The JoAnna Gallery, offers drawings, paintings, sculptures and video works which offer a lopsided take on 19th century strum and drung combined with a throughly contemporary absurdity.
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El Anatsui: Gli
Rice University Art Gallery
Opens Thursday, Jan. 28, 5-7 pm, Artist Talk Friday, Jan. 29, 12 pm
Through March 14.
(713) 348-6069
A new installation by one of Africa's foremost sculptors, El Anatsui, at the Rice University Art Gallery. Nigerian-based Anatsui manages to preform an alchemical transformation by turning ordinary found and recycled materials into dazzlingly grand installations that completely transmute the space. This is a not to be missed exhibition!
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Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool
Contemporary Arts Museum
Opens Friday, Jan. 29, 7-10 pm, Artists/Scholars Talk with Barkley L. Hendricks and Trevor Schoonmaker, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2 pm
Through April 18.
(713) 284-8250
Birth of Cool marks the first painting retrospective of Pennsylvania-born Barkley L. Hendricks. His dazzling, life-sized portraits of urban dwellers from the northeast are part of an exhibition that consists of over 50 works from 1964 to the present. Hendrick's compelling works find commonalities with the works contemporary portraitists like Alex Katz and an earlier generation of black painters from Romare Bearden to Beauford Delaney. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is the final touring stop after traveling to the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
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Artists For Haiti
Laura Rathe Fine Art
One night event Thursday, Feb. 11, 6-9 pm
Through February 11.
(713) 527-7700
100% of the purchase price of the art will be donated to the victims of Haiti.
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Maurizio Cattelan
Menil Collection
Opens Friday, Feb. 12
Through August 15.
(713) 525-9400
The Menil Collection proves time and time again how lucky Houstonians are to have it in their midst. From antiquities to fresh-out-of-the-studio contemporary art, the programming is consistently exciting. Now, in an exhibition organized by LACMA-bound curator Franklin Sirmans, the funny-creepy world of Maurizio Cattelan is coming to H-Town. The artist’s first solo show in the U.S. since 2003 includes recent large-scale works and site-specific installations as well as four new works. The Menil will be publishing an exhibition catalogue called Maurizio Cattelan: Is There Life Before Death?.
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Group Exhibition: Resolution 2010
The H Gallery
Through February 8.
(281) 222-5052
Artists include John Bruce Berry, Fikry Botros, Leo Chan, Galina Kurlat, Tilena Morales, Edie Stavinoha, Sarah Fleming, Martin Gremm, Maryann Lucas and George Szepesi.
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Robert Pruitt: The Forever People
Hooks-Epstein Galleries
Opens Saturday, Jan. 16, 6-8 pm
Through February 13.
713-522-0718
Robert Pruitt, who came to prominence as a member of Otabenga Jones & Associates and was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, has a new series of drawings, The Forever People, at Hooks-Epstein Galleries. These portraits of the artist's friends and neighbors investigate misconceptions of black identity and their role in popular media.
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New Orleans: Portraits of The Big Easy
John Cleary Gallery
Opens Saturday, Jan. 16, 6-8 pm
Through February 13.
713-524-5070
A group exhibition that includes work from Fonville Winans, Jack Robinson, Scott Steward, Marty Carden, Jane Fulton Alt, and others. These photographs convey the history of New Orleans from 1896 to present.
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Sarah Williams: Population 4,769
McMurtrey Gallery
Opens Saturday, Jan. 16, 6-8 pm
Through February 13.
(713) 523-8238
Recent MFA Graduate from UNT, Sarah Williams exhibits dramatic night scene and snow paintings that explore themes of loneliness and isolation. Population 4,769 makes us long for a warm space and familiar face.
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Scott Erickson: The Saints Of Lost
Xnihilo Gallery
Opens Saturday, January 30, 7-10 pm
Through February 13.
This exhibition of paintings explores the motivations and innermost desires of the characters from the television show Lost. We are at a loss for words.
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Jenifer Pastor: Dead Landscape
Glassell School of Art
Through February 14.
(713) 639-7500
"The Glassell School of Art's Core Exhibition Program presents the most recent body of work by Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Pastor. Opening on December 11 with a lecture and reception, the exhibition Dead Landscape is an installation of some 40 drawings and photographs that juxtaposes archival materials from wars involving the U.S. with Pastor´s drawings and photographs of culturally sanctioned, organized fights (from cage fighting and gladiator events to the Ultimate Fighting Heavy Weight Championship). Exhibited at Greengrassi in London earlier this year, the Houston showing will be the first presentation of Dead Landscape in the United States."
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Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil
Menil Collection
Lecture and Reading Tuesday, Dec. 8, 7 pm
Through February 14.
(713) 525-9400
"Painted in Rome in 1970, Treatise on the Veil marks a critical period in the career of Cy Twombly. One of the American artist's largest canvases, measuring nearly 35 feet in length, the work, which the Menil acquired in 1998, is rarely on public display. Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil will showcase this monumental painting, following its year-long loan to the acclaimed Tate Modern retrospective, Cycles and Seasons."
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Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Artist talk with Do Ho Suh, Thursday, January 14, 6:30 pm, Brown Auditorium
Through February 14.
(713) 639-7300
"The MFAH is the second and final venue for the first major museum exhibition in the continental United States in almost two decades to focus on contemporary art from South Korea. Organized by the MFAH and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea features a generation of artists who have emerged since the mid-1980s—some well-known and others on the brink of such recognition—all of whom work on the cutting-edge of international art trends and within a distinctly Korean context: Bahc Yiso, Choi Jeong-Hwa, Gimhongsok, Jeon Joonho, Kim Beom, Kimsooja, Koo Jeong-A, Minouk Lim, Jooyeon Park, Do Ho Suh, Haegue Yang and the collaborative, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries." Not to be missed!!
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Jonathan Leach: Unwrapped
13 Celsuis
Closing Reception Saturday, Feb. 6, 6-8 pm
Through February 15.
(713) 529-8446
Grab a glass of wine at 13 Celsius and check out Houston artist Jonathan Leach's commissioned temporary mural, titled Unwrapped.
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Margarita Cabrera, Jenny Schief, Fidel Ordonez
BOX 13 ArtSpace
Opens Saturday, Jan. 16, 1-5 pm, Closing Reception Saturday, Feb. 13, 7-9:30 pm
Through February 18.
Rising art star Margarita Cabrera presents her trademark soft sculptures created by laborers in an exhibition that, according to the press release, "navigate[s] within a conversation," "presents a dichotomy," and explores "the complexity of the socio-economic issues of migrant labor and their implicit gender associations." Whoa. A tall order. Let's hope she's up to the task. Jenny Schlief, "a white female conceptual artist" (geez) creates a new body of work consisting of rim drawings and a rim sound sculpture/iPod dock. I'm not sure we know what a rim drawing is, but if we know Schlief, it should be nasty. Fidel Ordonez, a self-taught painter born in Mexico City, presents a large installation built with references to geometric abstraction. Sandwiched between the conceptual heavy-lifting of Cabrera and the multi-culti gender-bending tomfoolery of Schlief, getting any attention at all will be a feat in itself.
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The New Normal
DiverseWorks
Opens Friday, Jan. 15, 6-8 pm
Through February 20.
(713) 223-8346
Curator, Michael Connor includes 13 new works by Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camara, Hasan Elahi, Eyebeam R & D/ Jonah Peretti & Michael Frumin, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Jill Magid, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Trevor Paglen, Corinna Schnitt, Thomson & Craighead and Sharif Waked. This exhibition explores heightened surveillance in our nation's post-911 state of terrorism.
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Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists
Koelsch Gallery
Opens Thursday, Jan. 21, 6-9 pm
Through February 20.
(713) 626-0175
Koelsch Gallery turned 15 years old this past September! Come help them celebrate their Quinceanera with margaritas and a new group exhibition of gallery artists.
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Carlos Pozo: Tropical Depression
labotanica
Opens Friday, Jan. 15, 6-8 pm
Through February 20.
Chilean artist, Carlos Pozo's experimental sounds give us tropical paradise and a taste of disaster. His four-channel audio installation and mixed media collages create the ambience and anxiety associated with the idyllic nature of the tropical and its mirror image, the terror of hurricane disaster.
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Recent Accessions in Design
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Through February 21.
(713) 639-7300
"The MFAH presents important additions to the museum's design collection, created by some of the most renowned designers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Recent Accessions in Design features objects that demonstrate aesthetic significance and technical innovation in all media. Among the works on view are examples by international figures such as Gae Aulenti, Mathias Bengtsson (shown), Shiro Kuramata, Gerrit Rietveld, Wieki Somers, and Ettore Sottsass."
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Martin Zet: Necessity
Station Museum of Contemporary Art
Through February 21.
(713) 529-6900
"This exhibition surveys the work of one of the most important and
internationally recognized Czech artist. Zet's artwork ranges from the
disciplines of sculptures, drawings, videos, and photographs."
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Initiatives for Houston Exhibition
Architecture Center Houston
Opens Thursday, Jan. 14, 6-8 pm
Through February 26.
(713) 520-0155
19 of the Initiatives for Houston grant program recipients are featured in this exhibition through boards, publications, models, and multimedia presentations. The program supports projects that focus on Houston's built environment, its history, present condition, and future development.
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Wishing Well for Houston
Art League Houston
Opens Friday, Jan. 15, 6-9 pm, Artist talk at 6:30 pm
Through February 26.
(713) 523-9530
Heather Hayner, Aram Nagle and Brian Piana's interactive sculptural installation "Wishing Well for Houston" allows viewers to change a recreated Houston skyline by tossing spare change at the towers that comprise a three-dimensional map of Harris County. The money you throw away on the art will benefit the Avenue CDC.
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read: group exhibition
Darke Gallery
Opens Saturday, Jan. 30, 5-8 pm, Artists talk with curator Marcelyn McNeil 6 pm
Through February 27.
(713) 542-3802
read is a group exhibition of works on paper by John Henley, Melissa Schubeck, Ann Resnick, Kevin Mullins, Carlos Roque, Jessie Tong, Chad Erpelding and Richard Martinez and is curated by Marcelyn McNeil.
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Dirk Rathke: Curved Canvases
Gallery Sonja Roesch
Opens Saturday, Jan. 23, 5-7 pm
Through February 27.
(713) 659-5424
Berlin-based Dirk Rathke has a fresh approach to paintings which is apparent in his new exhibition Curved Canvases. Dirk explores the relationship between line, area, space and movement to create objects from wooden frames, canvas and paint.
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UPPA Crust, Christopher Cascio & Anne Regan, Ned Dodington
Lawndale Art Center
Opens Friday, Jan 22, 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Artist talks 6 PM
Through February 27.
(713) 528-5858
Artist collective, UPPA Crust, includes Robert Hodge, Lovie Olivia and Michael Kahlil Taylor. Their exhibition DARe to go FURther explores their interest in the conditions of war ridden countries of Africa. Sound and music are the focus of Christopher Cascio and Anne J. Regan's exhibition, Harmonic Spheres. Ned Dodington explores the artificial and natural through his installation Poly-Lawn-Dale, which has living sculptures made of nylon pods growing grass. Don't miss Sally Heller's Ab-Scrap installation in the Project Space and Jarrod Beck's two-part installation Migration Center in the Sculpture Garden and Room 317. The mini exhibition space will feature the work of Gerardo Rosales.
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Temporary Services: Art Work
SKYDIVE
Opens Saturday, Jan. 23, 7-10 pm
Through February 27.
Art Work: A National Conversation about Art, Labor & Economics is project by Temporary Services that will use Skydive to distribute information from their newspaper and website. The project consists of writings from artists to activists on the topic of working amidst depressed economies and the impact on artistic process. Chicago based Temporary Services is an independent collective comprised of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer.
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Reinhard Ziegler, Margaret Smithers-Crump and Danna Harvey
Buchanan Gallery
Galveston Art Walk Saturday, Jan. 23, 6-9 pm
Through February 28.
(409) 763-8683
Reinhard Ziegler's hand-tinted silver gelatin photographs are now on view in his exhibition Places of Rest: Retired Vessels, Marfa and Big Bend. His photographs depict naval vessels and the landscape of the American West. A mini-exhibition of recent works by Margaret Smithers-Crump and Danna Harvey are exhibited in the viewing room.
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Damian Priour: Water Sparks
Galveston Arts Center
Opens Saturday, Jan. 23, 6-9 pm, Gallery Talk 6:30 pm
Through February 28.
409-763-2403
Water Sparks is a thirty-year retrospective of sculptural works by Austin-based artist Damian Priour. His elegant sculptures are created from limestone, glass and rusted metal. The exhibition is organized by Clint Willour and was originally scheduled to be on view this past fall, but was postponed due to Hurricane Ike. The temporary location for the Galveston Arts Center is located on the corner of Market and 25th Streets.
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Body in Fragements
Menil Collection
Through February 28.
(713) 525-9400
"Drawn from the Menil's diverse collection of over 16,000 objects, Body in Fragments explores the manner in which the human form is dissected and reconfigured in the art of various times and places, conveying spiritual, physical, and intellectual notions of personhood. Curated by Kristina Van Dyke, associate curator for collections and research, Body in Fragments
brings together painting and sculpture that reflect the de Menils’ interest in the fragmentary form, such as a disembodied arm of an Egyptian statue, and objects that exaggerate or appropriate aspects of the human anatomy, like a 15th-century European reliquary in the form of a finger."
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Travis Whitfield: Further on Down the Road
Project Row Houses
Through February 28.
713-526-7662
Travis Whitfield's multi-media installation that serves as a historic reflection and celebration of the lives of rural African American residents in northwest Louisiana in the early 1970’s. Further on Down the Road is curated by art patron Ann Harithas.
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Ron Hoover: A Retrospective, 1972-2006
Art Car Museum
Opens Saturday, January 9, 7 - 10pm
Through March 5.
(713) 861-5526
Ron Hoover was best known for his portraits of corrupt politicians, power-mad military dictators, and their victims. This is the first comprehensive show of his work since his death in 2008.
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Rodriguez & Ledvina: Ecstatically Exuding Exuberance
Rudolph Projects / Artscan Gallery
Opens Friday, Feb. 5, 6-8 pm
Through March 5.
(713) 807-1836
Come laugh it off at Rudolph Projects Artscan Gallery with a show by two art jokesters- Matthew Rodriguez and Cody Ledvina. Sarcasm and absurdities abound in playful attempt to comment on and mask the weight of the world. Rodriguez's found object collages and mixed media compositions are knowingly simplistic, hilarious and cartoonish. Cody Ledvina, co-owner of the increasingly infamous The JoAnna Gallery, offers drawings, paintings, sculptures and video works which offer a lopsided take on 19th century strum and drung combined with a throughly contemporary absurdity.
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Jonathan Marshall: Doubled Vision
Art Palace
Opens Friday, Jan. 15, 6-8 pm
Through March 6.
(512) 496-0687
This is it!! Art Palace opens their Houston location with an inaugural exhibit featuring work by Virginia-Based artist Jonathan Marshall. Be sure to welcome Auturo Palacios to town and support Art Palace!!
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Nothing to see here. Move along.
CTRL gallery
Opens Friday, Jan. 15, 6-8 pm
Through March 6.
(713) 523-2875
CTRL Gallery presents Nothing to see here. Move along., a group exhibition with Ry Fyan, Alexis Granwell, Angel Otero and Alexander Tinei.
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Dana Frankfort: Pictures
Inman Gallery
Opens Friday, Jan. 15, 6-8 pm
Through March 6.
(713) 526-7800
Words. Words. Words. Inman Gallery gives voice to the bright and exuberant text paintings of Houston native Dana Frankfort.
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Eudora Welty
College of the Mainland Art Gallery
Reception and Discussion Tuesday, Feb. 9, 12:30 pm
Through March 10.
(409) 938-1211 ext. 354
Depression era photography by the late Eudora Welty who was a young publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in rural Mississippi during the 1930s.
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Taller Michoacan
Museum of Printing History
Through March 13.
(713) 522-4652
In collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico and the Mexican Cultural Institute in San Antonio, the Museum of Printing History is presents Taller Michoacan. This exhibition consists of
selected prints produced at the Taller del Centro de Formación y Producción Gráfica del Antiguo Colegio Jesuita de Pátzcuaro, Michoacán.
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Not the Family Jewels! Curated by Emily Sloan
Gallery 1724
Opens Saturday, Feb. 6, 8-10 pm, Curator’s talk at 7:30 pm, Closing Reception Thursday, March 11, 7-10 pm
Through March 14.
(713) 523-2547
Awesome artwork wearables by Gabriel Craig, Arthur Hash, Lauren Kalman (shown), Masumi Kataoka, Katja Korsawe, Edward McCartney, Gwendolyn McLarty, Erika Pahk, Natalya Pinchuk, Gary Schott, Amy Weiks, and Kristi Wilson. Come support Gallery 1724 and see Not the Family Jewels! curated by Emily Sloan. We really liked her recent show at Redbud!
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El Anatsui: Gli
Rice University Art Gallery
Opens Thursday, Jan. 28, 5-7 pm, Artist Talk Friday, Jan. 29, 12 pm
Through March 14.
(713) 348-6069
A new installation by one of Africa's foremost sculptors, El Anatsui, at the Rice University Art Gallery. Nigerian-based Anatsui manages to preform an alchemical transformation by turning ordinary found and recycled materials into dazzlingly grand installations that completely transmute the space. This is a not to be missed exhibition!
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The Waringarri Suite
Booker-Lowe Gallery
Opens Thursday, Jan. 21, 5:30-7:30 pm
Through March 18.
(713) 880-1541
The first US exhibition of fine art etchings by senior and emerging Aboriginal Artists from Kununurra, Western Australia. This exhibition features new works from one of Australia’s leading printmaking studios, Northern Editions at Charles Darwin University.
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Drawing Lessons
O'Kane Gallery (UH-Downtown)
Opens Thursday, Feb. 4, 6-8 pm
Through April 1.
(713) 221-8042
A selection of thirty-three drawings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries are featured in Drawing Lessons: The Early Academic Drawings from the Art Students League of New York.
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Norman Gershman: Besa
Holocaust Museum Houston
Through April 5.
(713) 942-8000
"Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews during the Holocaust depicts the heroic stories of Albanian Muslims who showed a heart-melting kindness and righteous determination to save Jews - those of Albanian origin and refugees alike - from extermination despite great danger to themselves."
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Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool
Contemporary Arts Museum
Opens Friday, Jan. 29, 7-10 pm, Artists/Scholars Talk with Barkley L. Hendricks and Trevor Schoonmaker, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2 pm
Through April 18.
(713) 284-8250
Birth of Cool marks the first painting retrospective of Pennsylvania-born Barkley L. Hendricks. His dazzling, life-sized portraits of urban dwellers from the northeast are part of an exhibition that consists of over 50 works from 1964 to the present. Hendrick's compelling works find commonalities with the works contemporary portraitists like Alex Katz and an earlier generation of black painters from Romare Bearden to Beauford Delaney. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is the final touring stop after traveling to the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
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Tim Easton: This Machine Kills Apathy
The Record Ranch Gallery (inside Cactus Music)
Opens Saturday, Feb. 6, 7-10 pm
Through April 30.
(713) 526-9272
Musician and painter, Tim Easton, shows his folky paintings made from found or salvaged wood, house paint, spray paint and other on-hand materials where the guitar itself is the main subject. Selected works are part of his ongoing series The Porcupine 500 where recycled album covers are painted over and are accompanied by a record of original songs by the artist.
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Bernar Venet
Hermann Park Conservancy
Opens Thursday, Jan, 21, 4-6:30 pm; Lecture at the MFAH Friday, Jan. 22, 6 pm
Through October 30.
(713) 524-5876
The Texan-French
Alliance for the Arts (TFAA) unveils a nine-month exhibition of
15 monumental sculptures by acclaimed French artist Bernar
Venet. That means that Houston will join the ranks of over 20 other international
cities including Paris, Brussels, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, New York, and
Chicago to host a Bernar Venet exhibition! The works
will be sited by the artist and McClain Gallery in eight
locations throughout the park. Enjoy!
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Twentieth-Century Art at The Menil Collection
Menil Collection
A conversation with Josef Helfenstein & Franklin Sirmans, Friday, Feb. 5, 7 pm
Through February 5.
(713) 525-9400
Marking the return of the museum's twentieth-century galleries to the building's east end, Museum Director Josef Helfenstein and Franklin Sirmans (now curator of contemporary art at the LACMA) will discuss the Menil’s current reinstallation of the art of the twentieth-century. Four of the galleries continue to focus on American art's greatest hits like Johns, Newman, Rothko, Rauschenberg and Warhol. In the transition however, Sirmans and Helfenstein place old favorites in a contemporary context with substantial additions of works by Robert Gober, David Novros, Brice Marden, and Robert Mangold. Come see your old favorites and make some new acquaintances.
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