The Washinton Post reports a UPS delivery truck swerved off Independence ave in Washington DC to crash into the lobby of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden last night. No…
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Artist Mark Bamuthi Joseph promoting his "Life is Living" festival via a performance/installation event on Wednesday, May 12 at 7 pm at the Eldorado Ballroom in Houston. Life Is Living…
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Extremely Shorts, Aurora Picture Show‘s annual extravaganza of mico-micro cinema, is accepting submissions for it’s 13th incarnation. Three-minutes or shorter, any subject, any genre, any producer. The late postmark deadline…
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Likewise, New Texas Talent, that everlating showcase of emerging art, put on by Dallas’ Craighead-Green Gallery is casting about for, well, new Texas talent. Juried this time around by artist…
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Art Conspiracy has extended it deadline for this year’s grants. The 5-year-old Dallas fund-raising event yearly transforms a historic, underutilized space into a giant art studio where participating artists work…
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Art Conspiracy has extended it deadline for this year’s grants. The 5-year-old Dallas fund-raising event yearly transforms a historic, underutilized space into a giant art studio where participating artists work…
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The Métamatic Research Initiative, aiming to "stimulate research into ideas stemming from the work and philosophy of the French-Swiss artist Jean Tinguely", is looking for proposals for art making machines,…
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The Judd Foundation announced Wednesday that Donald Judd’s 13,004 books (OK, so 2,286 are duplicates), located in his home and studio in Marfa, are now accessible online. The foundation spent…
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Touring curator Bisi Silva will speak on “Contemporary Art and Shifting Curatorial Practices in a Transnational Age” on Monday, May 10, at 8pm at the Menil Collection. Silva, founder and…
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The New World Creole Festival begins today, Thursday, May 6 and runs through Sunday, May 9 at venues throughout Houston. Events include a Teach-in on Haiti Thursday at S.H.A.P.E. Community…
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Houston’s Bayou City Art Festival announced double-sized gifts of cash to 17 local non-profit orgs, its non-profit partners, made possible by the record 30,000+ visitors to this year’s festival in…
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On Friday, May 7, Houston is crammed with events: from 6-10pm Discovery Green park in Houston hosts the Art Car Sneak peek, Aerosol Warfare gallery premiers the Banksy movie "Exit…
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The first ever Mystic Valley Music and Arts Festival is setting up its tents in Vizcaino Park, Marfa for a three-day polyglot of 20 or so bands, Artist installations by…
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Andrea Mellard, assistant curator at the Austin Museum of Art is looking for submissions from emerging and lesser-known artists who live within 50 miles of the Capitol for the 4th…
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Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum has acquired the painting Christ and the Woman of Samaria, from Guercino’s coveted early period, 1619–20. The mysterious painting, previously known only through copies and…
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Lane Hagood of Houston is the winner of this year’s $50,000 Hunting Art Prize Announced Saturday night. The lucky Hagood, self-described as "an ephemeral and a not too discontented citizen…
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Paper artist Marguerite Belkin is this month’s feature at the Houston Center For Contemporary Craft’s Hands-On Houston event- a monthly free, craft-activity open house on the first Saturday of every…
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Sunday, May 2 is city-wide lemonade day in Houston, and Project Rowhouses is hosting it’s after school program students as they distribute lemonade based on recipes from members of the…
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Monday May 1 the infamous Yes Men are holding a free workshop, 11am-1pm at Diverseworks where they will train others in their disruptive intervention strategies. Their movie, The Yes Men…
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After a productive 15-year stint developing Houston’s Aurora Picture Show Andrea Grover, now restyled as a "migrant curator", is moving back east to Long Island!