NEA Spring Grants Announced: Texas Visual Arts Orgs Share $382,000
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced it’s Art Works Grants, and 31 Texas nonprofits have benefited, to the tune of $788,500, total. Among [...]
Diffuse Reflection Lab at UT’s Visual Arts Center (Video!)
Art-chitects Daniel Mihalyo and Annie Han of Lead Pencil Studio discuss their building-in-a-gallery project at UT’s Visual Arts Center’s Vaulted Gallery in a new promo [...]
New Texan French Arts Alliance Project Opens the Door to Banal Public Art
The Texan French Alliance for the Arts, the well-intentioned and well-connected nonprofit that scattered Bernar Venet’s rusty steel curlicues across Hermann Park in 2009-2010, is [...]
Short Days Bring Rice a Twilight Epiphany: Sports Field’s Lights Interfering with Turrell Skyspace
The Rice University Thresher reports that the school’s new James Turrell Skyspace is having some unanticipated conflicts with other uses of the busy campus. Lighting [...]
THE MENIL CONNECTION
Celebrating the legendary de Menil years of the Rice Museum and Rice Media Center. The Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this year has had me thinking [...]
Rice Arts Survey Dissects Houstonian’s Arts Attitudes, Finds Unexpected Hope Amid Bar Graphs
Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research released the results of their 2012 Houston Arts Survey, a study of the attitudes of Houstonians towards the [...]
Houston Students Visualize a Tolerant Society; Unveil Mural at MOCAH
A two-month mural project aimed at visualizing “a religiously and culturally tolerant society” made by 24 students from Houston area middle and high schools was [...]
Rice: More, Plensa, Please
Rice University dedicated a pair of big, seated figures by Jaume Plensa at a ceremony on the Rice campus last tuesday. The piece, titled Mirror, [...]
Josh Bernstein’s “Man Corn”
Josh Bernstein‘s exhibition “Man Corn” is the third exhibition in Rice University’s newest art venue– EMERGEncy Room. Located on the second floor of Sewall Hall, [...]
New Rice U Art Building in the Works; Maltzan Working on Pre-Design
Rice University has taken concrete steps towards building a new, $30 million art building on its Houston campus. Architect Michael Maltzan of Los Angeles is [...]
