This year is officially, really- we’re serious this time- the end of the world! So let’s celebrate disasters of all stripes (Will Lindsay go to jail again? will Italy forgive…
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KINGSPOINT, billed a “Houston’s largest graffiti mecca” (and recent recipient of a $4000 Idea Fund grant for 2012) is back with a vengeance as graffiti artist skeez181 & Southern Artists…
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The New Galveston Artist Residency will opens its studio doors on Saturday, January 28 for of tours of the sparkling new seaside (well, bayside, anyway) facility, and the works of…
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Taking it Back: San Anto Plans 43rd Chicano Civil Rights Mural Saturday
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSan Anto Cultural Arts is inviting the community to two days of dialog, discussion and planning for its upcoming 43rd Mural Project. On Saturday, January 28 community members will…
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This year is an election year in Mexico. This election will be a pivotal one for the entire country. I was living in Mexico City when the current president, Felipe…
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Fotofest Program Announced: Contemporary Russian Photography 1950–2012
by Bill Davenport 0 commentEvery other March, swarms of photographers and photo-related exhibitions swamp Houston’s art scene, and 2012 is one of those years: Fotofest’s 2012 Biennial focuses on Contemporary Russian Photography, blanketing the…
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Last Friday night, “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991 opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In it were some of my favorite Guerrilla…
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Last weekend I went with a friend to a string of local openings. Some of the shows I saw I don’t even remember looking at, although I distinctly remember every…
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According to independent student newspaper The Houstonian, Tony Shipp, longtime chair of the Sam Houston State University Art Department in Huntsville will be stepping down on August 31. Citing a…
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This one is for Margaret Meehan and Similar but Different…
by Leslie Moody Castro 0 commentI couldn’t help but take a photo of this very lonely seat on the subway in Chicago just a couple of weeks ago… Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon…
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COM Gallery Eye Torture Show: 2 Million Cameras x 10 pics . . . too bad there’s no entry fee!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentPeople with cellphone cameras within 100 miles of Texas City are invited to email their best pictures to Mayuko Gray at the College of the Mainland Art Gallery, for jurying…
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Long gone are the days when a CEO could simply cut a company check to his favorite charity. Now that it has become clear that companies can get the social…
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Wherein your narrator is roped into a dangerous collaboration in NYC, by dint of being from Texas.
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A leaking pipe in a fourth-floor closet poured an inch of water all over the concrete floors of the University of Houston’s Graduate painting studios over the recent winter holiday.…
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The ambitious, troubled Arts Center of North Texas, a joint project of six cities in Collin County north of Dallas, is foundering after the City of Frisco voted down a…
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Houston Artist William Betts has been selected for this year’s New American Paintings annual $1000 prize. Bett’s polished, mechanical images of photographs and surveillance video were featured in several editions…
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Ever discover what you want to write about something, after reading what someone else wrote about something else? Happens to me all the time—most recently, when I read an…
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Reception Honoring Houston Mayor Annise Parker and 2012 City of Houston Elected Officials Tuesday
by Bill Davenport 0 commentEveryone smile at the camera and say “public/private partnership!” On tuesday evening, January 24, there will be bit of political theater a Houston’s Hobby Center for the Performing Arts- only…
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Once an Austin mainstay, D. Berman Gallery, which moved to Wimberly last year, is planning to go entirely virtual on February 1, continuing to represent its roster of Texas artists…
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New Rice U Art Building in the Works; Maltzan Working on Pre-Design
by Bill Davenport 0 commentRice University has taken concrete steps towards building a new, $30 million art building on its Houston campus. Architect Michael Maltzan of Los Angeles is under contract for a pre-design…