Houston art space DiverseWorks has announced the details for its spring 2017 Diverse Discourse Lecture and Studio Visit program. On April 12, Claudia La Rocco, a poet, critic, performer, and Editor-in-Chief of…
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Celebrate the holidays with the DiverseWorks staff!
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Why Social-Practice Art Drives Me Nuts: Pablo Helguera at DiverseWorks
by Michael Biseby Michael BiseHelguera’s mission is not to trigger intellectual or emotional insight through visual intrigue, but to deliver standardized social messages.
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A reception in recognition of the donation of DiverseWorks Records to UH Libraries’ Special Collections. The archive, which contains a wealth of information spanning DiverseWorks’ history starting in 1982, is currently being…
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Houston’s DiverseWorks has announced its “Spring 2016 Diverse Discourse Lecture and Studio Visit Series.” On April 6, Angela Mattox, Artistic Director of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art will be in conversation with…
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Once the visitor has fallen into the trap of the clever exhibition itself, they realize the show sells exactly what it criticizes: the impact of advertising and technology on our physical bodies and our perceptions of spaces.
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The Not-So-Secret is Out: DiverseWorks Will Move to New MATCH Facilities
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIt’s now official: DiverseWorks will be moving into the new Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH). It hasn’t been a huge secret that DiverseWorks has been seriously considering moving…
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Houston’s DiverseWorks has announced its “Fall 2015 Diverse Discourse Lecture and Studio Visit Series.” On September 23, DiverseWorks’ new Executive Director and Chief Curator Xandra Eden will speak about her…
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"Really interesting institutional critique - just the fact that he is destroying the gallery."
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Rachel Cook, associate curator of DiverseWorks in Houston, has been named as one of four national recipients of the Spring 2015 curatorial fellowship granted by the Andy Warhol Foundation. The foundation has…
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"I think some people are concerned about Diverseworks becoming too much of an institution and I don’t want that to happen."
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Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) has announced that five more arts organizations are choosing to become W.A.G.E. Certified, including Houston’s DiverseWorks. W.A.G.E. is a New York-based activist organization…
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The board of directors of DiverseWorks in Houston has announced the appointment of Xandra Eden as its new Executive Director and Chief Curator. Eden comes to DiverseWorks from the Weatherspoon Art…
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Performance art, dance, experimental sound, comedy, spoken word—if you like those sorts of things and want to get a condensed version of what Houston artists are doing these days, DiverseWorks…
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DiverseWorks Artspace has announced that its director, Elizabeth Dunbar, will be leaving for a new job as Director of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY by the end…
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Two Hums Make a Whole: DiverseWorks to Present Sound Performances in the Sky and Underground
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAnd when you’re in tune, you’re in tune. -Bonnie Barnett to the LA Times on a HUM performance in a MacArthur Park tunnel One of the many, crazily ambitious avant-garde…
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The Idea Fund: Presentations by 2014 Jurors: Each juror will give a short presentation about their current work, followed by a q&a with the audience. Yona Backer, and Nathaniel Donnett.
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Houston’s DiverseWorks states that its current exhibition The Eleventh Hour “traces a lineage of urgency and activism in DiverseWorks’ programming over the past 30 years.” For those feel a sense…
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“Indecent” Artist Karen Finley to Join DiverseWorks in its Activism Revival Fest
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonHouston’s DiverseWorks was founded in 1982 by a group of artists who really wanted to make some noise—artistically, socially, and politically. Beginning at the peak of the Reagan era and…