Harvey is mining the history of gay culture to reveal binaries within which celebrate and dehumanize different modes of sexualization.
March 2017
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Shane Patrick Boyle, the founder of Zine Fest Houston, died this weekend. A creative writing graduate from the University of Houston, Boyle split his time between Houston and Mena, Arkansas, where he cared for…
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Last year we reported on the opening of Liquid Crystal, a sculpture created for San Antonio’s Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center by London-based Jason Bruges Studio. The sculpture was almost universally…
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Today, March 18, Austin art space Pump Project is hosting a virtual reality experience by Flatsitter, an interdisciplinary collaborative that uses video, film, software programming, performance and installation to comment on…
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I realized that for a few days I hadn’t really read the news, hadn’t really felt afraid, hadn’t really felt enraged.
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Culture Hole, the strange and nifty underground vault within the Power Station (Dallas) that’s become an art space curated by artists Gregory Ruppe and Jeff Gibbons, is holding one of its…
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We headed out via I-10 for a weekend of transcendent music, provocative art, and the recurring experience of wondering whether you are actually seeing Father John Misty everywhere or whether there are just 35 dudes around you who all look exactly like Father John Misty.
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News
Artist Appropriates Trump Slogan for “Painfully Powerful Statement”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonQueer performance artist Abel Azcona participated in Houston’s Experimental Action Festival a few weeks ago and at the 2014 Lone Star Performance Explosion festival, which Glasstire’s Bill Davenport wrote about…
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If you would like to receive more than just bills and credit card offers in the mail, sign up for Uneasy Houston. Eric Pearce, a long-time fixture in Houston’s printmaking community,…
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Sometimes museums use billboards to advertise art, and sometimes billboards are the art:
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In late April, the first three shows brought in by new Galveston Art Center curator Dennis Nance will debut. It’s a solid lineup: Jules Buck Jones, Calder Kamin, and James…
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President Donald Trump released a $1.1 trillion budget outline today, which includes eliminating four independent cultural agencies — the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on what to see over Spring Break, whether there are any bands left at SXSW, and naked people at the museum.
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Some current or recent Texas curators: Google image search results for “museum curator stock photo”:
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The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (PPHM), the “Smithsonian with a Texas Accent,” in Canyon, Texas, will be hosting a walking tour of the Dreamland Cemetery on March 25 from 3-6pm. Participants…
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In a thoughtful new essay in The Baffler titled “The Revolution Will Not Be Curated,” Thomas Frank makes the argument that curators have taken the place of what is curated, that…
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A still-life theme shapes concurrent exhibitions at two Fort Worth galleries.
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The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio is hosting a half week of free family and kid-friendly workshops, events, and tours for this Spring Break. This Wednesday and Thursday museum…
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Op Ed
Watch Out for Painting: Supports/Surfaces with Raphael Rubinstein
by Michael Biseby Michael BiseIf painting's “very definition is in crisis,” I wanted to get to the bottom of it.
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News
This Week: World Premiere of Opera about the Rothko Chapel and Dominique de Menil
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonOn Thursday, March 16 and Friday, March 17, the Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will present the world premiere of Some Light Emerges, a musical celebration of Houston’s social history, visual…