The Lawndale Art Center in Houston has announced that its next Big Show exhibition is scheduled for the summer of 2020.
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Last night, the Lawndale Art Center’s Big Show opened, which is normally when the winners of the show, selected by the guest juror, are announced. However this year’s guest juror,…
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For 31 years, the Lawndale Big Show has been the most important opportunity for emerging artists in a 100-mile radius of Houston to exhibit their work. It’s often the first…
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Paul Middendorf came to Houston for the first time as curator of the 2010 Big Show at Lawndale Art Center. He was impressed with the city and set up a…
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Glasstire Virtual Studio Visit: Chad Maydwell
by Glasstireby GlasstireChad Maydwell‘s “music visualization” video Rêverie – Claude Debussy was one of the standouts in the 2012 Lawndale Big Show. Here’s his newest stop motion animation, Stardust – Fats Waller. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLhXLEV34Tw…
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Every five years, the German town of Kassel is transformed into Documenta, a sprawling, intellectual exhibition considered a must-see by curators, collectors, and critics the world around. This year, I…
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Lawndale’s annual and much-anticipated Big Show opens tonight (Friday the 13th) from 6:30 – 8:30. Curated by Marco Antonini, gallery director of Brooklyn’s NURTUREart, it’s one of the smallest and…
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This past weekend, I had the opportunity to assist with the jurying of Lawndale Art Center’s annual Big Show. I have volunteered for this event for the last three years,…
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This is the year that I officially cease carping about Lawndale’s Annual Big Show for not being the wonderfully free, come-one-come-all brawl it once was. Times change, institutions change, even…