“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Seams ************* No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else is also…
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Last week I was on the road with artist Angela Kallus, in an epic quest to see a lot of things I’d never seen. Two of our days were spent with…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Light Pillars In this week’s Top 5 we included the Magdalena Fernández installation Rain at the Houston Cistern, which…
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Here are a couple of projects featured in the massive exhibition “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive” currently at MOMA. As one of the most prolific and renowned architects of…
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Never mind CBGB and Whiskey A Go Go, we’re Houston! #punksnotdead This site gathers vintage and current posters from punk shows in Houston. Pretty great. Check out the page for the…
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Short video of Edward Kelley’s security camera installation Speak of the Devil at Art League Houston.
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Artifex.ru, a Russian art advocacy group, released this silly but fun little video on social media earlier this year. It’s actually a nine-year-old animation by a group called Whitehouse Animation…
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Can we stop using the word “practice” to describe what artists do? Art isn’t free, and it isn’t easy, and artists are not dilettantes. “When you come into the arena,…
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All of the Pipilotti Rist ‘Pixel Forest’ GIFs you could ever want
by Glasstireby GlasstireThis Sunday, June 11, 2017, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is opening Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish, an exhibition of two works the museum recently acquired from the Swiss…
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I really love Mr. Money Mustache. It’s a self-help blog about money and lifestyle, but not in the usual sense of “how to make a ton of money with the least…
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Brian Molanphy’s Wasp Nests at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
by Glasstireby GlasstireBrian Molanphy is one of three artists in the San Angelo Museum’s current ceramic biennial invitational exhibition. The internationally exhibited artist has been teaching at SMU in Dallas since 2011,…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Mugshots This weekend the New York Times published an article questioning whether mug shots taken at the time…
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10 students at Marfa ISD with help from Sally Beauvais, Zoe Kurland, and Marfa Public Radio put together a wonderful 30 minute podcast for the KRTS Youth Media Project about…
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Hey artists, according to thuggish Russian despot Vladimir Putin, all you guys have to do is just wake up in the morning in a good mood, and you’ll start painting!!…
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Today, May 31, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston broke ground on the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building. The building, which is to be located where the museum’s main parking lot used…
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Happy Memorial Day. Let’s stop to consider the great war photographers, who have not only witnessed the hell, banality, triumphs, and devastation of all of our world’s wars, extensively—starting primarily…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Wall Drawings Below are two images: one is an installation shot of the recent Sol Lewitt exhibition Glossy and Flat…
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If you are one of the 34 million Americans hitting the road this Memorial Day weekend, there’s plethora of podcasts ready to entertain you while creeping along the open road. For starters, you…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: History Below are images from a recent hard hat tour of the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, designed by Johnston…