Luminaria: Arts night in San Antonio promises a multimedia art blitz on Saturday night, March 15. The downtown celebration will be from 6 pm to midnight with stages, gallery exhibitions…
March 2008
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Artpace is getting set to hand out up to $5000 in travel grants for San Antonio artists. Just tell them who you are, where you want to go, and why…
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Since modernism’s beginnings, obscurity has been a useful strategy for confounding the bourgeoisie, twitting the elite, and excluding the peasants. Every utterance is meaningful, and the meaning of opaque rhetoric…
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Fotofest’s Fine Print Auction And Fundraiser is this evening at the Doubletree Hotel, downtown Houston. Cocktails, and auction preview at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30, live auction at 7:30. You’ll…
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New Art in Austin – 20 to Watch is the third in a series of triennial art exhibits at the Austin Museum of Art showcasing contemporary art from Austin, Texas.…
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Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, turns 35 in March. The party’s on Thursday, March 13 at 7 p.m. with live music by the 11th Street…
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Houston artist Dixie Friend Gay and her crew have completed the installation of a vast mosaic mural at Chevron’s new headquarters in Covington, Louisiana. In the 12’ x 24’ mosaic,…
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Nothing Always Happens
The Channelization Will Not Be Televized: Terence Hannum at Light & Sie
by Titus OBrienby Titus OBrienThis is too weird. On the heels of the whole Eric Trich debacle, a show comes along tailor-made to reinforce my dismay about a certain, all-too-common approach to art production…
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Dr. Sketchy, a risqué fusion of gentlemen’s club and life drawing class has made it’s Houston debut. The phenomenon, franchised out of Brooklyn and promoted locally by by Katie Laird…
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Arts Houston magazine publisher Frank Rose has been served with papers in a lawsuit claiming defamation in a youtube video. ("Paint it black " Newswire 12/19/07). The 16-minute video "Black…
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The Ft. Worth Modern will install it’s second large outdoor sculpture later this month. Conjoined by the New York-based artist Roxy Paine is a 40-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture of two trees…
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The new issue of …might be good has a very interesting review of AMOA’s New Art in Austin by (…mbg editor) Claire Ruud and an interview with executive director…
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Houston’s newly-restored Beer Can House made it to page 9 of he NY Times this morning. The legendary structure, clad in 50,00 aluminum beer can is the masterwork of John…
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Review
“Where Clouds Disperse: The Ink Paintings of Suh Se-ok” and the Arts of Korea Gallery
by John Devineby John DevineWhere Clouds Disperse: Ink Paintings by Suh Se-ok creates a contemplative space in the rear galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts , Houston’s Caroline Weiss Law building. Curated by…
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Just in in time for FotoFest‘s Meeting Place, veteran portfolio reviewer, curator and collector Clint Willour has: Some Advice on Portfolio Management Do your homework and know who I am…
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A new marketing campaign is poised to re-make Oklahoma as the "State of Creativity." Really. The Oklahoma Creativity Project’s website collects and shares information about happening people like 28-year-old David…
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Buffalo Bayou Art Park opens Decking the Path to Blessedness, a monumental outdoor photo installation by Austin artist Barry Stone with a picnic at the Sabine Street Art Park, just…
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The latest post on the street-art photo blog Dirty Third Streets has examples of Houston’s new graffiti ordinance in action: the city can fine owners of property tagged with graffiti…
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At 12:15 this afternoon, New Zealand artist Julie Kipa will show traditional Maori tattoo images, discuss her work, and the contemporary art of New Zealand. On Friday and Saturday, March…
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Recent tax fraud investigations have turned up widespread inflation in the value of artworks donated to museums, spawning reformist rumblings from economists and the Congress, report Jason Felch and Doug…