Mel Chin (Houston native and prolific artist) in his project currently on view at 516 Arts, a non-profit in Albuquerque, NM, is proposing a renewable energy plan based on solar energy,…
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The Guggenheim Fellowships were announced this week and the list includes Houston’s Mel Chin (in the Fine Arts category) and Austin’s PJ Raval (in Film-Video). In its 91st competition for…
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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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From Chin to Flynn: Menil Presents Encyclopedia in Art and Poetry
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonTomorrow evening at 7 pm, the Menil Collection will host an “Illustrated Lecture & Book Signing” with Houston-born artist Mel Chin, fresh from his retrospective at the New Orleans Museum…
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Intensity is not a perfume!
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Native Houstonian Mel Chin’s 40-year retrospective of sculpture, video and installations at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) opened on Thursday with a panel discussion and on Friday with…
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Thanks to the keen eyes of some TV crime drama watchers at GalleristNY, someone noticed that the paintings in last night’s episode of the CBS show Elementary were those of…
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The New York-based nonprofit organization Creative Time commissions and presents ambitious public art projects in New York and elsewhere. They also host the Creative Time Summit every year, inviting innovative…
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Culturemap attended the opening of alleged Menil vandal Uriel Landeros’ solo show Houston We Have a Problem and reported “as far as art openings go, the party was memorable .…
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Two months ago, The Station Museum’s Artifactual Realities closed. Unfortunately, I first visited the exhibition a couple weeks before the end and only had a short time to really absorb…
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The Houston Fine Art Fair’s Artweek kicked off yesterday with a Blaffer Blow Out with Houston Young People for the Arts (HYPA). It’s just the first of a “a non-stop,…
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New Asia Society Building in Houston Reflects Either “Shared Future” of “Different Balance of Power”; Grand Opeining in April
Citing an more interconnected world, and the growing role of Asia in international affairs and commerce, the Asia Society, founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller to explain Asia to…
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Gold is on people’s minds a lot lately—more than usual, what with inflation worries, “End the Fed” protests and calls to return to a gold standard. People fear their dollar…
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Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 –…