By Rachel Hooper on December 9, 2012
We arrived at Blue Star Thursday night to a performance of Justin Randolph Thompson’s Tossin’ the Rag as part of his exhibition Meet Me in the [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged ann wood, Artpace, benjamin h mcvey, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, brian fridge, catherine anspon, claudia schmuckli, claudio dicochea, dikeou collection, Esteban Delgado, ethan moore, gabriel diego delgado, gary schafter, Goya, ivan salacido, jon pylypchuk, Jonathan Leach, justin randolph thompson, liza littlefield, McNay Art Museum, Michele Monseau, nancy douthey, painting, photography, royal art lodge, sculpture, susan plum, University of houston, utsa, video, vincent valdez |
By Peter Lucas on November 5, 2012
The Houston Cinema Arts Festival is back with an eclectic program celebrating film both as art and as art document. It opens this Wednesday and [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged audio-visual, eve sussman, film, houston cinema arts festival, light surgeons, shirley clarke, video |
By Peter Lucas on September 15, 2012
The Aurora Picture Show’s 9th annual Media Archeology Festival (Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 21-23) premieres a host of unique films and live audiovisual performances that [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged aurora picture show, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, film, heart chamber orchestra, lee ranaldo, media archeology festival, music, nameless sound, video |
By Rachel Hooper on August 27, 2012
Though it may still be hot and steamy outside, the fall exhibition season is almost upon us. The next several weekends in Houston look to [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged angela piehl, candace hicks, compositions, Drawings, Lawndale Art Center, lillian warren, oklahoma, paolo piscitelli, sculpture, string theory, video |
By Peter Lucas on August 11, 2012
Experimental Eye and The Sounds of Silence. The next 6 weeks bring Houstonians rare opportunities to see some of the most dynamic experimental films in [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged animation, art, aurora picture show, experimental eye, film, menil collection, rice media center, sounds of silence, video |
By Rachel Hooper on May 22, 2012
Box 13 ArtSpace on the east side of Houston just opened their first set of summer exhibitions featuring a roster of artists from around the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, Wax by the Fire | Tagged Ariane Roesch, box 13, britt ragsdale, ei jane janet lin, emily peacock, harry dearing iii, miao jiaxin, painting, performance, radu runcanu, shanghai, video, william witte |
By Sarah Fisch on March 29, 2012
Continued from Part I… V. Reynosa, Narcolandia and sad, sad data It’s important to point out that Rigoberto Gonzalez is not a Chicano artist, though [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged baroque on the border, border issues, Christina Rees, chupacabrona world tour, Ciudad Juarez, corridos, delilah montoya, figurative painting, harlingen, Houston, ican artist, jennie ash, la llorona, mcallen, me, Reynosa, rigoberto gonzalez, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, social realism, spider-man, Tamaulipas, Tejano culture, The art league of houston, the Rio grande Valley, University of houston, video |
By Sarah Fisch on March 22, 2012
I. Some Art Context I have so much to show you. This is the first painting I ever saw by Rigoberto Gonzalez. It appeared in [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged baroque on the border, border issues, Christina Rees, chupacabrona world tour, Ciudad Juarez, corridos, delilah montoya, figurative painting, harlingen, Houston, jennie ash, la llorona, mcallen, mexican artist, Reynosa, rigoberto gonzalez, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, social realism, spider-man, Tamaulipas, Tejano culture, The art league of houston, the Rio grande Valley, University of houston, video |
By Rachel Hooper on March 13, 2012
Choreography a collaboration by Jim Nolan and Linda Post. Documentation of opening night performance featuring: Daniel Adame, Shanon Adams, Tina Shariffskul and Prudence Sun. Documentation [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged dance, FotoFest, jim nolan, Lawndale Art Center, linda post, music, performance, photography, post-minimalism, video |
By Beth Secor on January 24, 2012
Last weekend I went with a friend to a string of local openings. Some of the shows I saw I don’t even remember looking at, [...]
Posted in Every Friggin Gallery in the Whole Damn Town | Tagged Art League Houston, Beth Secor, exhibition, Hillerbrand+Magsamen, installation, video |
By Peter Lucas on November 8, 2011
This Wednesday evening, the third annual Cinema Arts Festival Houston launches five days of film screenings, multimedia performances, video installations, and artist talks in venues [...]
Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged cinema arts festival houston, film, film festival, Houston, performance, video |
By Dan R. Goddard on October 21, 2011
Lucky has been anything but. A 46-year resident of the San Antonio Zoo, the sixtyish, female elephant became a cause célèbre for animal rights activists [...]
Posted in Alamo City, Blog | Tagged Book, elephant, Lucky, Michelle Monseau, Mirror images, San Antonio, Unit B, video, zoo |
By Eileen Maxson on April 26, 2011
Maria Guzman interprets her world into playfully grotesque, allegorical paintings, installations, sculptures and performances. In settings inspired by a mixed cultural identity (Italy, South [...]
Posted in Video | Tagged Alejandra, Eileen Maxon, maria guzman, video |
By Eileen Maxson on March 30, 2011
In 2010, Lane Hagood re-created the “Mary’s Mural”, a former public icon and landmark of Houston’s Montrose neighborhood. The revived painting, made at the Johanna [...]
Posted in Video | Tagged Eileen Maxon, Houston, Lane Hagood, Mary's Mural, video |
