Projects awarded in 2019 include a podcast focusing on the voices of queer and transgender people of color, a new art space in Galveston, a video by JooYoung Choi, and more.
"It Came from the Bayou"
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Gadbois married fellow artist Leila McConnell in 1956, and together the pair were founding members of what became a robust art scene in Houston.
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In early 2018, the Houston Arts Alliance came together with the City of Houston to begin the “Let Creativity Happen!” Express Grants for artists to encourage creative risks and collaborations…
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On Friday, November 3, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will open an off-campus satellite gallery at 714 Yale Street, in a retail development called Heights Mercantile. The new space…
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We are glad to see that Routine Fables, a yearlong project by the Houston artist Elaine Bradford and the poet Sara Cress, has returned after Cress’s house was flooded during…
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"It's hard to feel bad when I still get to live in my home, but at the same time this work feels more real and a part of me than the home we live in."
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This building had served as the city’s massive input/output system for a half-century, before this audacious hack
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When I heard about this show, I thought it strange that an important American artist is having her retrospective at such an out-of-the-way location. But UHCL once played unexpected part in the history of feminist art.
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Brandon Zech shares some thoughts on the work he saw on his most recent trip.
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The outgoing director of Lawndale Art Center discusses the Houston art scene, past and present.
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Cities cling in perpetuity to a hometown boy made good. Mel Chin left Houston in 1983, and was clearly influenced by the time he spent in our diverse, surreal and polluted swampland.
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A drone's-eye view of the unkempt spaghetti of mud bars, marshes, railroads and oilfield equipment that dissolve gradually into the Gulf.
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The inaugural CounterCurrent had its hiccups, but it wasn't just people getting naked and smearing things on themselves.
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Video works, installations and filmed performances from artists that both spaces have exhibited over the past few years are much more than a greatest hits montage.
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When did modern art arrive in Houston? The thought-provoking timeline put together by Caroline Huber and The Art Guys a few years back for “No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston” at…
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Forrest Bess (1911-1977) lived a hermit’s life in a cabin in Chinquapin, Texas. In the catalog for the exhibit Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible, Robert Gober writes, “Forrest Bess lived a life…
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News
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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For those of you just joining us, here’s a resume of choice newsy bits for 2011: We’ve lost a crateful of old Texas artists this year: Dick Wray, Scott Gentling,…
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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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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…