Peter 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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JooYoung Choi's "The Cosmic Womb" has been growing in complexity since 2012.
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Houston’s DiverseWorks has announced its “Fall 2015 Diverse Discourse Lecture and Studio Visit Series.” On September 23, DiverseWorks’ new Executive Director and Chief Curator Xandra Eden will speak about her…
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"Really interesting institutional critique - just the fact that he is destroying the gallery."
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Just because the Supreme Court ruled last month to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, it doesn’t mean Houston doesn’t still need its annual QFest! Now in its 19th year, the International…
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"I think some people are concerned about Diverseworks becoming too much of an institution and I don’t want that to happen."
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Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) has announced that five more arts organizations are choosing to become W.A.G.E. Certified, including Houston’s DiverseWorks. W.A.G.E. is a New York-based activist organization…
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The board of directors of DiverseWorks in Houston has announced the appointment of Xandra Eden as its new Executive Director and Chief Curator. Eden comes to DiverseWorks from the Weatherspoon Art…
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In my defense, most overtly political art stinks.
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Another town hall meeting will be held to discuss the state of the arts on Saturday, May 2, at 11:30am at Houston’s El Dorado Ballroom. The City of Houston has…
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Performance art, dance, experimental sound, comedy, spoken word—if you like those sorts of things and want to get a condensed version of what Houston artists are doing these days, DiverseWorks…
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Whatever one thinks of Top-Whatever lists and segregating women from men for the sake of online clicks, we are pleased to see two Houstonians and one Austinite on Artnet’s new…
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The Idea Fund has announced 12 grantees for its seventh round of funding the unfundable in Houston. Jurors for this round of grants were Ben Davis, writer, critic, and Executive…
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DiverseWorks Artspace has announced that its director, Elizabeth Dunbar, will be leaving for a new job as Director of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY by the end…
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Marshal and Victoria Lightman’s ever-present Houston art appreciation group, Looking at Art, turns 25 this year. Established in the fall of 1989, Looking At Art takes groups of earnest self-educators,…
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Of course it’s hot and muggy in Texas this time of year, but it suddenly seems like it’s literally the dog days of summer around here. If you missed…
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Completely over the top, it seemed headed on an accelerated train to boring queer performance art, but boychild used this emotional detritus to perpetually construct masks and build identities.
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Two Hums Make a Whole: DiverseWorks to Present Sound Performances in the Sky and Underground
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAnd when you’re in tune, you’re in tune. -Bonnie Barnett to the LA Times on a HUM performance in a MacArthur Park tunnel One of the many, crazily ambitious avant-garde…
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SonicWorks is uneven, but is saved by materials documenting DiverseWorks’ pioneering sound art presentations in the 1980s and 90s.