Texas women are getting some prestigious grants! (See yesterday’s news post.) The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced that Aurora Picture Show Curator Mary Magsamen has received…
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The Idea Fund wants to give you money for your offbeat idea or, as they put it, “to provide artists with quick access to substantial financial support for projects that…
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This past Wednesday, QFest kicked off their 20th annual program in Houston! As always, this year’s festival spans both traditional and non-traditional art venues across the city: Rice Media Center, the MFAH, the…
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This weekend, Houston will be showcasing some great work by teen artists. At the Aurora Picture Show, the 3rd annual Extremely Young Film Festival features creative short films under three…
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Last night, at the historic Houston nightclub Numbers, Aurora Picture Show hosted their yearly screening with the A/V Geeks. The A/V Geeks travel across the US and show selections from their massive…
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There is going to be a ton of projected art in Texas this weekend! The Aurora Picture Show is putting on its free-for-all BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) at Houston’s…
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The Aurora Picture Show’s BYOB (Bring your Own Beamer), an evening of DIY projections covering the façade of the Menil Collection building, had to be cancelled because of the weather.…
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Christina Rees and guest host Christopher Blay on dubious art prizes, the seduction of immersive installations, and how to fluff your art CV.
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If you haven’t seen the eye-slicing scene at the beginning of Un chien andalou (1929), you haven’t been to art school. Almost 90 years after its release, the Surrealist film,…
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Objects, Matter, and the Dream State at Aurora Picture Show in Houston
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasPeter Lucas previews an upcoming Houston screening of historic and contemporary experimental films co-presented by DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture Show.
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It’s the eighth round of the Idea Fund, which gives out grants for “artist-generated or artist-centered projects that exemplify unconventional, interventionist, conceptual, entrepreneurial, participatory, or guerrilla artistic practices.” The re-granting…
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Houston’s Aurora Picture Show has announced that this coming Saturday, they will re-launch Bold Asian American Images, a night of screenings showcasing works made by Asian American artists. Started in 2000 as SLANT: Bold…
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Houston’s independent Latina-made film festival kicks off tonight with a reception from 6-9pm at East End Studio Gallery. There will be art, vendors, refreshments, and a chance to win an…
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This week: a show that shrinks itself, a show that freezes things, and couple of shows that give us that fuzzy TBT feeling.
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According to the weather reports, Houston should be dried out by Wednesday evening, so it will be a great time for an outdoor screening (but bring the bug spray!). In…
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For the second year, the Menil (via Aurora Picture Show) in Houston will participate in a new-ish international public art event-slash-series: BYOB. It means Bring Your Own Beamer, and here…
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The annual one-day festival of “art, words and noise,” which brings together visual, literary and performing arts organizations, returns to the Menil campus this Saturday, April 18, 11am-6pm. The MenilFest…
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Signals is an interactive video installation where you send messages to the artist via Morse code. I was tempted to just call him.
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Later this month, the Chicago-based video blogging/comedy group Everything is Terrible! will come to Houston and (and two other Texas venues) for the first time to present an omnibus of…
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This week, film artist Roger Beebe is touring Texas with his multiple–projector presentation, Films For One To Eight Projectors, with stops in Houston, Austin, and Dallas.