Main Street Square in downtown Houston is going to have a LOT of art this spring. A series of ambitious, semi-temporary art installations will start popping up between the 900…
January 2016
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The paintings did not have any beauty to make them timeless, nor any artfulness to position them as anything but a product of rhetoric. I doubted whether they were works of art at all.
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Mark Mothersbaugh’s retrospective at the Contemporary Austin opens February 13, and on that very evening, Mothersbaugh himself will host a multi-media night at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. The evening…
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News
James Franco is an Artist Again! And He Wants to Paint Your Portrait for a Good Cause
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonRenaissance artiste/actor James Franco never ended up in Texas to explore his poetic self after he was accepted at the University of Houston’s doctoral program in creative writing, but he’s…
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"It seems like it's a sexual fetish. It's absolutely not."
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Not only are Texas galleries and museums in the midst of a plethora of post-holiday exhibition openings, there are also some fantastic upcoming art talks. Here are a few that…
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Party Pics
Party Pics: January 16 at Hardy & Nance Street Studio Complex, Houston
by Glasstireby GlasstireThe scene at Hardy & Nance last weekend.
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If a discerning art person from out of town walked into the Dallas Contemporary right now, I think they’d be impressed. This hasn't always been the case.
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The Artist Foundation of San Antonio, now in its 10th year, has announced the ten 2015 grant recipients awarded to artists across a broad range of disciplines living in Bexar…
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When thinking of Instagramable places in Texas, certain spots come to mind: Prada Marfa, Cadillac Ranch, and Austin’s “i love you so much” wall, to name a few. TIME, however, just released…
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Jones and curator Valerie Cassel Oliver treat the entire survey as a single installation.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born 87 years ago on January 15. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968. The civil rights leader accomplished a lot and changed the…
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When you see something horrible, a painting is created that hangs in your mind until you die.
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The University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts has just announced the lineup for their third annual CounterCurrent festival, happening April 12-17. There will be multiple projects on…
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The Orange Show is now taking applications for Houston’s 29th annual Art Car Parade, which is set for April 9th. The entry fee is $35, and the parade does not turn anyone…
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When I walked into Celia Eberle's latest show, I felt a familiar rush of being wowed by what she’s made and despairing that it’s not destined for a museum.
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If you have seen Island Time: Galveston Artist Residency – The First Four Years at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (on view through Valentine’s Day) and thought that you, too,…
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The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio has just named the six artists who’ll participate in the second year of its still-new artist-in-residence program. Artists Lab does what other residencies…
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"If I think of the two artists who are strongest with materials in Texas it would be Celia Eberle and our number one pick…."
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The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) has announced Perry Price will be the art center’s new executive director. Price will leave his position as director of education at the…