Did you go to this thing? Houston’s Art Ball — aka Disaster Ball, a fundraiser for this here publication, it was. I went all the way from San Antonio. I…
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Reception Honoring Houston Mayor Annise Parker and 2012 City of Houston Elected Officials Tuesday
Everyone smile at the camera and say “public/private partnership!” On tuesday evening, January 24, there will be bit of political theater a Houston’s Hobby Center for the Performing Arts- only…
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Rub shoulders with your elected officials, tell them how great they are for supporting the arts! Hosted by the Houston Arts Alliance, as the prologue to a new year and…
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The Houston Convention and Visitors bureau is trying a bit of marketing jujitsu: instead of bemoaning the Hotel Occupancy Tax that slaps an added 7% onto your bill, they have…
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Public art manager Glen Weiss has been named as the new Executive Director of the Houston Art League, arriving fresh from NY, where he was the fonding manager of the…
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Emerging artists Sapphire Williams, Gisette Padilla and Nancy Douthey will each recieve $1,000 Liz Alexander Visual Art Awards from the Houston Arts Alliance, to be used for a specific artistic…
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Genocide Party: Mark Dion’s Buffalo Bayou Invasive Plant Eradication Unit Wages Battle Against Undesirable Immigrants
Meet enviro-artist Mark Dion and study the Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s new invasive-plant deathmobile at a launch party for the Buffalo Bayou Invasive Plant Eradication Unit, a taco truck refitted to…
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Here it is: our live blog of the Houston Fine Art Fair! We’ll be posting images throughout the fair. (Don’t forget about our contest for Best and the Worst art…
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Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of fine art galleries to visit.…
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The Art Guys, in association with Hear Our Houston, a project by artist Carrie Schneider that asks people to “Ttake a walk: record your thoughts, observations, stories, memories, and…
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Hundreds of Austin artists who rely on occasional public events like the East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T.) are facing a dire challenge: due to new zeal in enforcing city regulations,…
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A retrospective of the photographs of Paul Hester, AIA Houston 2010 Artist of the Year and recipient of Texas Society of Architects 2010 John G. Flowers Award. Hester examines the…
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The monumental sculptures of French artist Bernar Venet, brought to Hermann Park by the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts last year, are still here! Moved to Oyster Creek Park in…
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The Houston Fine Art Fair and The Texas Contemporary Fair: Twice the fairs equals twice the drama
So you may have heard, Houston is getting an art fair. Um, actually two art fairs. There has been a ridiculous amount of controversy surrounding these fairs, a classic tempest…
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Reginald Adams, director of the Museum of Cultural Arts in Houston, and artist Daniel-Kayne are travelling to the Centre Léon Bérard Hospital in Lyon, France to paint murals with sick…
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The Houston Art Alliance is fundraising to bring jailed dissident Chinese artist Ai WeiWei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads to Houston. The piece (one of two copies) is owned by a…
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In terms of size, concrete and consumer culture, Houston is a hyperbole of a city. Every time I return to it from another place I am shocked at the exorbitant…
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The Houston Art Alliance has announced the Liz Alexander Visual Art Award, honoring the memory of Liz Alexander, a longtime HAA staffer who died suddenly in April 2010. The award,…
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Final Four visitors, your hotel occupantcy tax money is hard at work: among its grants to literary, musical and performing artists, a passel of visual artists and filmmakers scored grants…
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Houston artist David McGee was awarded a 10-day residency in France by the Texas-French Alliance for the Arts at their fundraising auction/awards party at the Decorative Center in Houston. Chosen…