After more than three weeks, the search for the two escaped prisoners in northern New York is over. According to The New York Times, David Sweat was discovered and shot…
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The above image is from a current exhibition by Sophia Narrett at Arts+Leisure (NYC) entitled This Meant Nothing, a series of embroidered fictional narratives about two women who meet on…
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The Irving Arts Center (a Smithsonian affiliate and home to two theaters, four galleries, meeting/classroom/reception/rehearsal facilities, and a sculpture garden) has announced that Todd Eric Hawkins has been named executive…
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Houston Artist/Science Nerd Completes Rice Residency With New Installation
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonHouston artist Debra Barrera, along with artist Carlos Hernandez, recently completed an understated installation entitled Asymmetric Seekers in Rice University’s Brockman Hall for Physics. Barrera has spent the past year…
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How do local arts communities organize? In a few weeks, the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is setting out to answer that question, or at least to see how Houston stacks…
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People all over the country have been holding vigils for the nine people who were killed in the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday, and…
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William J. Chiego, Director of San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, has informed the museum’s board of trustees of his intention to step down from the directorship of the McNay on…
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Dallas has held two successful Slideluck events; Austin has held seven. Now, the Houston Center for Photography (HCP) is holding the very first Slideluck Houston! Part slide jam, part pot…
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This morning, Houstonians missed out on Matt Lauer’s interview with Rachel Dolezal because the NBC affiliate chose to cancel it in order to have minute-by-minute hysterical coverage of the any-minute-now-almost-rain…
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A few days ago, superstar astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (director of New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and executive editor/host of Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, the recent reboot of Carl Sagan’s…
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On Tuesday night, five members of the Cooper Union’s board of trustees (and staunch supporters of the college’s president) resigned en masse, including Vice Chairman Francois de Menil. On Wednesday…
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More Aggie Art! Exhibition Promises Updated Version of Conservative Collection
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAs if in response to Rainey Knudson’s recent essay, “The Cult of Memory at Texas A&M,” the Forsyth Galleries at A&M opened an exhibition called A Second Look: Interpretations of…
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On Thursday evening, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is presenting another of its Art+Cuisine series, this time on Persian cuisine. The program begins with a brief presentation and conversation…
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On Saturday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the appointment of Kelly Baum as the new curator of the department of post-war and contemporary art. Houstonians may remember Kelly Baum…
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Last night, the Asia Society Texas hosted the Mayoral Forum on Arts and Culture with Houston’s seven mayoral candidates. They spoke about the importance of arts and culture to the…
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If you happen to be in Los Angeles this weekend, you are SO lucky because CatConLa takes place this Saturday and Sunday. CatCon is exactly what it sounds like: cat…
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The winners of the 2014-2015 Austin Critics’ Table Awards, given by an informal group of arts writers from the Austin American-Statesman and the Austin Chronicle, were announced last night. The…
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According to the weather reports, Houston should be dried out by Wednesday evening, so it will be a great time for an outdoor screening (but bring the bug spray!). In…
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This past Memorial Day weekend, while Texans were busy posting stunningly awful images of the relentless rain and flooding, an image of an innocuous statue on the San Antonio campus…
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If You’ve Been Waiting for a Sci-Fi Latino Noir Performance Art Show, It’s Finally Coming to S.A.!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonSan Antonio’s Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, in partnership with the National Performance Network, will present performance artist José Torres-Tama during a week-long residency in mid-June. The residency will include three days…