The Art League Houston and Fresh Arts will host an “Artist Town Hall Meeting” to discuss the needs of artists living and working in the Houston area. The meeting will…
January 2014
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Peña embraces the artist’s endemic dissatisfaction: each work is only the latest, less than perfect, attempt.
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After Website Presents Museum Selfie Day, AMSET Presents Actual Self-Portrait Exhibition
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThose who missed the fact that yesterday was “Museum Selfie Day” have probably also suppressed the memory of the announcement by Oxford Dictionaries at the end of 2013 that it…
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1. Charles Long: CATALIN and Pet Sounds The Contemporary Austin January 18 – April 20 On View: January 18, 2014 | 10 am – 5 pm Another of the Austin…
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Tom Sale shapes a wonderful pastiche about the life of Florence Nightingale to meet his personal, obsessive needs.
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Texas Sheriff’s Office Releases “Worst Police Sketch of All Time”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Lamar County Sheriff’s Department recently released a sketch of a robbery suspect and the UK’s Metro reprinted the drawing in its news section in order to propose that it…
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MFAH Included in Mellon Foundation’s Pilot Program for Curatorial Diversity
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIt’s no secret that the people who work at museums have always been predominately white, but the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is now supporting a new initiative at five major…
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Texas State Researchers Pinpoint Exact Moment of Monet Painting
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonFans of Claude Monet’s The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset (1883) can now rest easy, knowing exactly when it was painted: February 5, 1883 at 4:53 pm local mean time (plus or…
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Chris Sauter, like Jesus, invites you to stick your hand in a hole. His inter-related projects examine the false dichotomies between religion and science.
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Berni’s works explode with an unabashed, visceral materiality, and raise questions regarding the construction of artistic canons, both in Latin America and beyond.
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The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced that it has enrolled nearly 50,000 visitors in its DMA Friends membership program since its launch one year ago today. Touted as “the…
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Since the Art League Houston (ALH) announced an open call for exhibition proposals for two shows per year, artists will want to make sure that the ALH folks receive a…
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Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! In honor of Dr. King’s birthday, there are a number of parades and celebrations throughout the state this morning and afternoon. This evening, the…
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SonicWorks is uneven, but is saved by materials documenting DiverseWorks’ pioneering sound art presentations in the 1980s and 90s.
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It’s no great leap to use cardboard to make tree rings, or speaker wire to weave baskets, but Stanley's sensitivity and care go a long way towards making them great.
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Dallas Art Voices Speak Up to Give a Public Artwork a Public Forum
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhen White Rock Lake Weekly published an article entitled “Art? Or an eyesore? City set to decide,” it prompted some serious folks in the Dallas art community to speak up.
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Houston art lovers who don’t hang out at hip nightclubs have probably still experienced the sounds of Andre Sam-Sin, known as DJ Sun of Soular Grooves. DJ Sun has been…
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The University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts is organizing a brand new festival of experimental performances called CounterCurrent 14, which will debut on April 9-13. Karen…
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Video: Dave Hickey, part 4: Accommodating Identities
by Glasstireby GlasstireIn which Dave points out the constraints of identity art at universities, galleries, museums and other bastions of hell.
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Houston Mayor Gets Married! And We Throw in Some Art News as an Excuse to Post the Wedding Photo
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonHouston Mayor Annise Parker and her long-time partner, First Lady Kathy Hubbard, were joined in marriage today in a sunset ceremony held at a private home in Palm Springs, California. “This…