Last week, the University of Houston’s Art Department opened their annual show of works by first and second-year graduate students as well as UH undergrads. Prior to the exhibition’s opening, MFA student Alton DuLaney met…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on wretched excess, an artist's unmarked grave, and an MFA show you shouldn't miss.
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on aphrodisiacs, unnecessary umlauts, and hardcore propaganda. 1. American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth) February 6 –…
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“BEER IS ART.” That’s the first line of the email from the International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS) that contains the press release about IMAS’ Brew-seum (get it?) Craft…
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In spite of strong art departments and a number of new cross-disciplinary initiatives over the past few years, arts-related departments at the University of Houston (UH) have remained within the…
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This month the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston received a $1 million bequest from the late Jane Dale Owen. The granddaughter of Sarah Campbell Blaffer, Owen had long been involved in the…
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Blaffer Art Museum has announced a collaboration with the University of Houston’s Industrial Design Department to create Blaffer Art + Design. This partnership has been through a few iterations before, but…
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Congratulations to Austin-based artist-duo Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, whose current exhibition at Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum, Sound Speed Marker, received a long, gushing review in the online art news…
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This week, Christina and Rainey get sidetracked on how artists should stay out of school, once they're out of school. And Rainey does a robot dance.
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Blaffer Art Museum is offering a special promotion that can win you a FREE ticket to their 2016 gala after-party on May 14, 2016. All you have to do is…
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More Mel Chin! Miranda Lash Returns to Houston to Explain it All
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonFor those who have yet to fully react with Stendhal syndrome at the Mel Chin fest that’s been going on in Houston, there’s one more must-see. Speed Art Museum’s Curator…
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No one can resist putting out the obligatory year-end listicle, so yesterday Artnet News published “The 50 Most Exciting Artists of 2014.” Art critic/curator Christian Viveros-Fauné states that his selection…
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Watching someone doing something weird in public demands that we cast aside our assumed notions of what is proper and what is possible.
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Film artist Jodie Mack brings flickering patterns and her personal rock opera to Houston and Austin MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY!
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Glasstire first-responders fish valuables from the onrushing flood of Spring Art Activity across Texas!
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Those who happened to catch Theaster Gates’ performance at the Houston Museum of African American Culture, presented in conjunction with his work in the 2010 CAMH show Hand+Made: The Performative…
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There seems to be a lot of exhibitions about food recently, as well as related programs about food rituals (now referred to in art terms as “relational aesthetics”). The Blaffer…
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In conjunction with the exhibition Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, the Blaffer Art Museum will present “Sunday Soup: Houston” at The Brandon on Sunday, November 24, from 4-7 pm.…
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First, 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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Les Blank’s great, hour-long 1978 film will be screened in Houston on Saturday, followed by hot food and even hotter live music.