Feeling industrious? Diverseworks art space in Houston is holding an "Industry Night" Tuesday evening, January 25 from 6-8pm. Drinks, schmoozing, networking and collegial insiderism will be shared by one and…
2011
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In a bizarre annual event, some of the furniture at the Museum of Fine Arts Rienzi House, former urban estate of art patrons Carroll Sterling Masterson and Harris Masterson III,…
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UTA prof Darryl Lauster was awarded $25,000 from the Joan Mitchell Foundation as one of twenty-five 2010 grantees. Lauster lays out thew whole business of being a contemporary conceptual artistin…
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On a cold and (believe it or not) snowy day in Dallas, Texas I found myself at the entrance of 500X Gallery on the last day of Flotsam, an exhibition…
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A memorial service for Houston artist Dick Wray, who died January 9, has been scheduled for 3:00 pm, Saturday, February 5 at the Rothko Chapel in Houston.
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As Edgar Arceneaux and Nery Gabriel Lemus point out, the “Seventh House is…significant in astrology as the house of cooperation and opposition.” With this in mind, they co-curated Project…
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It’s time to let your skeletons out of the closet with the annual bash supporting two of Houston’s most progressive arts organizations, Glasstire and Fresh Arts Coalition! From 8-11 pm,…
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Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough just dug his hole even deeper. Upholding the intellectual principle of knowing on which side your bread is buttered, he made a statement defending his…
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The 2011 Dallas Art Fair will be held at the Fashion Industry Gallery on April 8-10, 2011, but the parties begin on March 24 with an invitation-only kickoff at Neiman’s…
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The Texas Commission on the Arts, after two years of record-setting grant levels, will be facing what it calls "a major cutback in funds", from the new, budget-squeezing 82nd Texas…
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A native of St. Louis who teaches at Washington University, Joan Hall is an avid sailor who is often dismayed to see plastic trash floating miles from the ocean shore. …
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NAP Church, a napping/prayer/meditation arranged by artist Emily Sloan and Napping Affects Performance (NAP) nappens Sunday, Jan 23 from 1-4pm at Little Woodrow’s Ice House, 4235 Bellaire Boulevard, Houston. Eye…
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The Burnett Foundation will sell off its set of four Matisse bronze "Backs", which it acquired in 1982 and put on display in Burnett park, before moving them to the…
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I generally have a hard time giving a lot of credit to op art. It appeals to the part of my brain that will always be 12 years old, and…
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Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss, co-founders of Fotofest announced the 2012 mega-fest’s theme: Contemporary Russian Photography, and the dates of its popular portfolio review for artists, The Meeting Place: March…
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As a kid, my sisters and I dubbed the malaise that comes on gloomy, somber Sundays a “Sunday Feeling.” It’s an awful feeling, brought on then by the threat of…
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Dana Friis-Hansen, director of the Austin Museum of Art since 2002, is suddenly leaving the institution, with a decidedly cool send-off from museum board president Lynn Sherman, who said that…
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Patricia Hernandez’s Parody of Light opened last Friday at DiverseWorks. The show, an elaborate Thomas Kinkade spoof, got a ton of advance press, including a pick in GT’s Spring Preview.…
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Using nouveau low-odor spray paint and a design worked out between the Houston Public Library and street artists Gonzo247 and MERGE360, old men of the Houston graffiti scene, are working…
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Surprise! An Ike-killed tree in Galveston that was carved into a geisha is now a sculpture, and its owner is subject to a $10 annual fee to put it in…