Time is running out for Houston artists to apply for their Houston Arts Alliance project and fellowship individual artist grants- even the Ike-extended deadline is this Friday, October 10.
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Bill Davenport
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You may not know this, but Arthouse has an Emergency Relief Fund for Texas-based artists who have experienced an unforeseen emergency that affects their ability to work. This fund is…
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The Glassell School of Art’s Advanced Curriculum for Teens program has chosen thirteen new students for it’s fourth-year: Cypress-Fairbanks ISD freshman Chris Elkins, Katy ISD freshman Fernanda Huerta, Briarwood School…
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Local bloggers round up their impressions of the new megashow at the DMA on KERA’s arts blog, while Michael Granberry profiles the unexpectedly funny Zawi (or Zahi) Hawass, secretary general…
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The oldest experimental film festival in the States is taking its road show to San Antonio, with two different programs on two different nights. The Ann Arbor Film Festival makes…
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Houston’s Aurora Picture Show has scored a coup: renowned artist Laurie Anderson will performs Hidden Inside Mountains on October 9 and Aurora members will have the opportunity to get tickets…
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Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art, now the largest university museum in the United States, is finished. The new Edgar A. Smith building (named for the oilman and UT alum who…
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Cleveland "The Flower Man" Turner’s house, a street-art landmark in Houston’s Third Ward got hit hard by Ike. The Orange Show is organizing a workday this Saturday, October 4 from…
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Professor Bryan Carter specializes in African American literature. He is also the creator of Virtual Harlem and Virtual Montmartre, reconstructions of New York and Paris during the 1920s and 1930s,…
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Pinky Diablo (aka Tom Sale) is gonna be a performing monkey Friday, Oct. 3 at a fundraiser for the Lewisville Visual Art League. From 6-9pm Pinky will be painting skeletons,…
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Dr. Charissa Terranova, director of the UT Dallas Artists Residency and Harvard Ph.D. will talk TONiGHT, Wednesday, October 1 at 6:30 pm at the MAC about the role of gender…
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Artpace in collaboration with San Antonio artist Jason Jay Stevens and ten computer science students at Louis W. Fox Academic and Technical High School are unveiling Metaphor, a web-art project…
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"Where are the Texas totem poles? What about an oversized wood chair or a corrugated metal suit of armor?" cries the Fresh Arts Coalition. Become a "cultural first responder" by…
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Next Sunday Austin’s Arthouse is putting together an information session aimed at giving high school students the lowdown on art college. Barry Stone, a prof. at Texas State University and…
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The re-scheduled Red Block Bash in the courtyard of the University of Houston’s fine art building takes place Wednesday, October 1 from 4-7 pm. Eats, Bobbindoctrin puppets, T-shirt screening, and…
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Art of Brownsville‘s main blogger, Gabriel Trevino, is still posting from the public library, and has sent out a cry for help: he needs his own computer, a digital camera,…
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There’s a new bookstore/cafe/artspace in Juraez, blogs David Sokolec in Border Art Dialog: "S and L (Sol y luna) is designed as a bookstore, art space, cafe and performance place.…
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The Houston Press is fixin’ to award $2000 each to the MasterMinds of Houston, and YOU might be one! Nominations are open until October 3. Superior individuals in the areas…
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The Chelsea Art Museum has cancelled the opening of the exhibition Aesthetics of Terror, curated by Manon Slome and Joshua Simon, and including work by Houston’s William Betts. Dorothea Keeser,…
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In the summer of 1994, at a Houston hardcore punk club, Paul Guilford looked like he was playing bass, but only sometimes sounded like it. Dave Dove crudely clunked a…