Bill T. Jones speaks about collaboration. One young man, who only stuck around for the free wine, decided it was open mic psych night.
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Job Post: Curator/Organizer of Unofficial Houston Art Fair (Fast-Acting Self-Starter Preferred)
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentDon’t say you’re faired out already, because the Texas Contemporary Art Fair is coming to town in just a few weeks (October 10-13), although without the smart, goofy, affordable, and…
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Houston Artist Robert Pruitt Adds Exclamation Point to Michelle Obama Speech
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentMichelle Obama hosted a luncheon yesterday for about 50 spouses (meaning almost all women) of chiefs of state and heads of government, reports the Associated Press. The event took place…
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The Euro-based aerosol fest comes to Houston: The sun was out, and a breeze was blowing the paint fumes away across the lake of roof-leaked rainwater. It was a beautiful afternoon to be on a ladder.
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While the Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) is busy transforming the 160-acre Buffalo Bayou Park (from Shepherd to Sabine), it is also beginning to think about what to do with the…
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Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will honor artist Bill Viola with the 13th Annual Aurora Award at its annual fundraiser on October 5. The internationally recognized artist has been making videotapes,…
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The sound of the conté crayon marking the wall is both soothing and grating. I sit on the concrete floor thinking that, as the viewer, I too should experience some discomfort.
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25 Visits: Barista/Curator Asks Regular Folks About James Turrell
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentThere’s been a whole lot of James Turrell love going on this summer, from The Light Inside at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (which closed on Sunday) to the…
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Curator Conference Leaves Houston to Support Detroit’s DIA
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe American Association of Museum Curators (AAMC) has announced that it is moving this spring’s national conference from Houston to Detroit in a show of support for the Detroit Institute…
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Houston Fine Art Fair: Now With Less Houston, More Korea!
by Kelly Klaasmeyer 10 commentsFirst, the good news about the Houston Fine Art Fair: Robert Pruitt was selected as 2013 Artist of the Year. Otherwise, HFAF came back for its third year—but it did so without some major Houston galleries and some early supporters.
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A new round of artists have joined the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) for the 2013-2014 program. GAR was established to give intense studio time to emerging and established visual artists,…
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Art, Mustaches, and Possums! Free Museum Day in Austin
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentMore than 40 institutions will participate in tomorrow’s 16th annual Austin Museum Day. There will be free admission to all participating museums and most will have special activities and presentations…
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Michael Bise’s adversity has produced a suite of drawings that offer us an alternative and unblinking view of the experience of death, illness, and our medical system. Luckily for us, he is brave and skillful enough to share it.
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MFAH’s Founding Curator of Photography Announces Retirement After 37 Years
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has announced that Anne Wilkes Tucker, founding curator of the Department of Photography, will retire in June 2015. Malcolm Daniel, longtime curator and…
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The Anxiety of Self-Presentation: Memory by Lisa E. Harris
by Jessica Santone 0 commentThe heart of the performance was in one perfect, inconceivable, totally unscripted gesture. Harris performs again tonight at 6 p.m.
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FotoFest Seems to Come Earlier Every (Other) Year
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentFotoFest, the international biennial of photography and photo-related art that takes over every possible venue in Houston every other spring, will officially begin on March 15, 2014. Because of logistics…
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Tuymans' heavy, content-driven art is also compelling. Theory-addled MFA students: go see how it ought to be done.
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The work invites physical engagement. Several younger viewers felt compelled to run down the outside hall eagerly seeking the impossible simultaneity of seeing and being seen in the video projections.
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There is only a week or so left to catch Andy Rihn’s Texas’ Longest Hammer Choir, the “psychedelic worksong, film and denim-heavy installation experience” at Austin’s MASS Gallery. As part…
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DMA Gets Big Bucks for Free Program, Told to Spread Friendship
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has received a $450,000 National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS). The grant will go towards spreading its “Museum’s…