This afternoon, Houston’s boldly colored, but usually vacant, Central Library Plaza is the site for the kick-off festivities for the Texan French Alliance for the Arts’ Open the Door project,…
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The Houston Arts Alliance is bringing in Randy Cohen, vice president of research and policy at American For the Arts, an advocacy org, to spread the gospel of quantitative surveys…
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Architect and art collector Bill Stern died Friday, of pancreatic cancer. He was 66. Stern moved to Houston in 1976, immediately finding a place in the booming city’s cultural crust.…
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Rachel Hecker Named ALH Texas Artist of the Year 2013, Oliver Given New Lifetime Achievement Award
Art League Houston has named Rachel Hecker as their Texas Artist of the Year for 2013. Leigh and Reggie Smith were named as Texas Patrons of the Year, and, in…
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Raj Mankad, editor of Rice Design Alliance’s Cite magazine, is circulating a petition asking the city of Houston to close a section of a different Houston street one night each…
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Where does Houston rank with it’s public art? Where does Houston strive and where does it fall short? Talk with some of Houston’s leading experts on the importance of public…
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The Texan French Alliance for the Arts, the well-intentioned and well-connected nonprofit that scattered Bernar Venet’s rusty steel curlicues across Hermann Park in 2009-2010, is at it again: TFAA and…
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Para leer este artículo en español, por favor vaya aquí. To read this article in Spanish, please go here. “Walking, in particular drifting, or strolling, is already – with the speed…
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Houston performance artist Daniel-Kayne was found dead in “The Temple”, his studio/performance space in Downtown Houston on Monday afternoon. According to an unnamed source who was there when police arrived,…
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Three things: 1. Amid the brouhaha following Paul Schimmel’s departure from MoCA this summer, Eli Broad was quoted in the LA Times as estimating the value of MoCA’s exhibits by…
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Claire Ruud Interviews New Artadia Director Carolyn Ramo
by Claire Ruudby Claire RuudCarolyn Ramo, Artadia’s new director, spent the last 12 years of her career in the New York gallery world, first at Nicole Klagsbrun, then as a production director at David…
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Houston Arts Alliance is fixing to hire globe-trotting Australian public artist Konstantin Dimopoulos to install a version of his popular “Blue Trees” in Houston. The current proposal is to plant…
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Mayor Annise Parker and the Houston Art Alliance band together for a public press conference to announce the results of the new study of “The Creative Economy of Houston” by…
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If you’ve driven along Allen Parkway recently, you’ve seen the piles of dirt. For the next three years, Buffalo Bayou is going to be one massive construction project, and Rice…
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What better use for some of that Houston Art Alliance hotel tax money than to promote one of the city’s only real claims to fame, the Houston Art Car Parade?…
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William Pope.L, Foraging (asphixia version), 2008, Digital C-Print It was 2003 and “William Pope.L’s: eRacism was on view at Houston’s DiverseWorks as part of a national exhibition tour (also…
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Culturemap‘s Joel Luks reports on Houston’s ethnic Karenni community, and the colorful weavings that have helped preserve a sense of identity for the group of refugees from Myanmar (Burma). The…
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Twenty-two Houston artists recently received individual artist grants from the Houston Arts Alliance: Regina Agu; Kristine Mills Borisewitz; Teresa Chapman; Jade Cooper; Rebecca French; Ashley Horn; Charlotte Kennedy; Alex Luster;…
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Houston gallerist Wade Wilson has juried a show of 76 varied artworks from 483 submitted to the VAA’s annual competition. 1600 Smith Street (formerly Continental Center I) on the concourse…
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Katy is on a roll! Last month, FotoFest Katy featured 11 exhibitions by local art spaces in the West-of-Houston-but-not-quite-a-suburb town. Now they are about to debut their first fine art…