Galeria Perdida, Michoacan, Mexico and Gabriel Architects, Houston are sponsoring Towards a New Architecture , a project curated by Julie Spielman in which fourteen artists, architects and writers will intervene…
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Glasstire’s Titus O’Brien isn’t the only one wrangling with sleazy art merchants. Lorena Fernandez, an artist who blogs about the Houston art scene on the Houston Chronicle’s website reports an…
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Election’s almost here and street art is heating up. Dirty Third Streets has a couple of snaps of Obama propaganda and Ron Paul graffiti in Austin. Cell-phone camera maniac isthishouston.com…
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The Dallas Museum of art has just acquired Charles Ray’s The New Beetle, says Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes. The piece, a life-sized nude boy playing with a toy VW…
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The Art Guys are featured in “Art & Laughter,” a new book book by Sheri Klein, Professor of Art Education at The University of Wisconsin-Stout, available at Amazon for $24.50…
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Today’s Chronicle has a splashy picture of Houston’s Beer Can House . The newly renovated icon of quirk will reopen to the public on March 8. If you can’t wait,…
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El Paso’s Space Available Gallery will be closing its doors on April 1. All shows for the month of March have been cancelled, and instead the gallery will host a one-night-only…
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A new mural featuring Barack Obama has appeared at the corner of Travis and Alabama in downtown Houston. Based on artwork by Shepard Fairey and painted by Houston graffiti artists…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston made the Art Newspaper’s list of best attended museums in the world today, with a weighted attendance of 1,649,969 for 2007. That puts it…
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Neiman Marcus at Houston’s Galleria is putting on a fashion show and art exhibition featuring Bert Long Jr., Sharon Engelstein, McKay Otto and Aaron Parazette. Titled straighforwardly, "The Art of…
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Miranda Lash , formerly curatorial assistant at The Menil Collection in Houston is joining the New Orleans Museum of Art as it’s first Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Lash’s…
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The Polaroid corporation recently announced that it is planning "for the exit of traditional Instant film in all formats and sizes." Although the company will halt production this year, and…
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The University of Houston’s Blaffer Gallery has a new Deputy Director. David Vollmer , formerly director of the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana will also serve as…
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Blaffer Gallery ‘s Claudia Schmuckli , curator for this year’s Houston Area Exhibition has selected 15 Houston artists out of 350 submissions: Seth Alverson, William Betts , Sasha Dela ,…
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Saturday Lawndale Art Center happy hour at Houston’s Hello-Lucky . From 5:00 to 7:30, stop by and learn about opportunities to get involved with Lawndale Art Center. Eats provided by…
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Talk about The Viability and Necessity of Artist-Run Spaces this evening, Wednesday. There will be a panel discussion from 6-8 p.m. at 500 X Gallery, Dallas. Moderated by artist Noah…
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The Austin Museum of Art has just announced its expansion into a new 40,000 square foot building across from Republic Square Park in downtown Austin. Set to happen in 2011,…
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CONTEXT, a Houston-based chamber music ensemble will play a free show at Houston’s Joan Wich Gallery on Thursday night (that’s tomorrow!) at 7 p.m. Pianists Brian Connelly and Riko Fukuda…
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Saturday it’s Art Night Austin. Formerly known as the Austin Fine Arts Festival, and before that as Fiesta, the event is sponsored by Arts Alliance Austin, formerly known as the…
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The Tuesday Evenings series at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth brings Ingrid Calame , a Los Angeles–based artist known for her brightly colored abstract paintings based on of…