This Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm, San Antonio’s Artpace will host its 10th annual Chalk It Up festival, where contemporary artists, novices, and kids all work together to…
October 2013
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What happens on the Chihuahuan Desert plateau stays on the Chihuahuan Desert plateau, but use some common sense.
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It’s art fair time (again)! This weekend, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair will take over the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, and it all kicks off with a…
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A large sculptural installation by San Antonio/New York artist Franco Mondini-Ruiz has recently been acquired for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The work…
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Passed down from hand to hand, an underground tradition of twenty years is coming to Houston's Museum of Printing History next weekend.
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After Friday’s report of a federal terrorism task force descending on the Houston area homes of Houston art appraiser/art supporter Cecily E. Horton and her husband Andrew E. Schneck, FBI…
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Slant, a new Dallas Midtown artist collective at Valley View, is holding an open call for a group exhibition entitled Contained. In the call for entries for the juried show,…
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Houstonian subversion trio—Mark Flood, Lane Hagood, and Jeremy DePrez—look smart on these mismatched walls, which still bear traces of an auto-body shop.
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"I feel that I am putting myself on the continuum between the microscopic and the universal, and finding that place where I fit into all of that."
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Mark Larsen, founder of the Artery has announced that the space will soon be closing after 26 years. The inner-city environmental art/performance space “is magic because of the abundant foliage…
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Curators Andrea Karnes and Alison Hearst have organized a mini-biennial of the latest and greatest hits of Mexican art since the 1990s.
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As a participant, and now manager, of Project Row Houses' Young Mothers Program, City Council Candidate Assata Richards considers the mothers as artists-in-residence. Each is an artist and what they are creating is their life.
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Nice and Nicest: “Anonymous” Artist Responds to Menil’s Third Ward Billboard
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonA billboard placed in Houston’s Dupree Park in the Third Ward has provoked a counter-billboard. The original billboard promotes the Menil Collection’s current exhibition Nice. Luc Tuymans, with one of…
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Various departments of the FBI (including the Hazardous Materials Response Team), the Houston Police Department, and the Houston Fire Department entered two homes today with a warrant search. One house…
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“It Is Difficult,” Says Alfredo Jaar: Coming to Houston to Inspire
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThere seems to be a recent surge in exhibitions, programs and artists dealing with community engagement and political activism. Now, the politically active Holocaust Museum Houston is bringing artist Alfredo…
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Ugh, but it's a fine thing when art moves you. Individual experiences may vary, but that's the beauty of subjectivity. Just let it happen. I mean that sincerely.
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Project Row Houses (PRH) is celebrating its twentieth anniversary with a block party this Saturday from 11 am-7 pm. Okay, it will be more than a block and Saturday is…
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Those in or near Longview this weekend can stop in at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts (LMFA) for its estate sale on Saturday. It will be an opportunity to…
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Peter Lucas asks Bill Viola about early video, slow motion experiences, dreams, and death.
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For many young artists, the moment they notice that they are hanging out at the big craft chain stores more often than the regular art supply stores is when they…