A new round of artists have joined the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) for the 2013-2014 program. GAR was established to give intense studio time to emerging and established visual artists,…
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Art, Mustaches, and Possums! Free Museum Day in Austin
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentMore than 40 institutions will participate in tomorrow’s 16th annual Austin Museum Day. There will be free admission to all participating museums and most will have special activities and presentations…
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Michael Bise’s adversity has produced a suite of drawings that offer us an alternative and unblinking view of the experience of death, illness, and our medical system. Luckily for us, he is brave and skillful enough to share it.
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MFAH’s Founding Curator of Photography Announces Retirement After 37 Years
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has announced that Anne Wilkes Tucker, founding curator of the Department of Photography, will retire in June 2015. Malcolm Daniel, longtime curator and…
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The Anxiety of Self-Presentation: Memory by Lisa E. Harris
by Jessica Santone 0 commentThe heart of the performance was in one perfect, inconceivable, totally unscripted gesture. Harris performs again tonight at 6 p.m.
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FotoFest Seems to Come Earlier Every (Other) Year
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentFotoFest, the international biennial of photography and photo-related art that takes over every possible venue in Houston every other spring, will officially begin on March 15, 2014. Because of logistics…
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Tuymans' heavy, content-driven art is also compelling. Theory-addled MFA students: go see how it ought to be done.
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The work invites physical engagement. Several younger viewers felt compelled to run down the outside hall eagerly seeking the impossible simultaneity of seeing and being seen in the video projections.
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There is only a week or so left to catch Andy Rihn’s Texas’ Longest Hammer Choir, the “psychedelic worksong, film and denim-heavy installation experience” at Austin’s MASS Gallery. As part…
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DMA Gets Big Bucks for Free Program, Told to Spread Friendship
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has received a $450,000 National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS). The grant will go towards spreading its “Museum’s…
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CentralTrak Artists-in-Residence Arrange Homecoming for Old IKEA Furniture
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentThose who want to catch the entire Texas Biennial experience were, of course, at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio for the mega-survey show, but have also…
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The Sweetest Taboo takes its name, in part, from the popular song by Sade, in which the singer's orgasm is liberated from some place in her understanding that treated it as an outlaw experience.
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Now that Community Supported Agriculture groups (locally-based models of agriculture and food distribution which began popping up in the 1980s) are catching on across the country, local arts organizations are…
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Equal Justice? Playboy Marfa Controversy Spreads to Prada Marfa
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 3 commentsNow that the Playboy Marfa has been officially classified by the Texas Department of Transportation as an “illegal outdoor advertising sign,” someone has asked the inevitable question, “Aren’t the fake…
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Les Blank’s great, hour-long 1978 film will be screened in Houston on Saturday, followed by hot food and even hotter live music.
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Texans Bring Guns to Navy Shipyard, to the V&A, and to Anyone with a 3D Printer
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentAs the news unfolds about today’s Washington Navy Yard shooting rampage that left 13 dead, many Texans have a little extra heartache to hear that the alleged shooter is from…
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“Indecent” Artist Karen Finley to Join DiverseWorks in its Activism Revival Fest
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentHouston’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…
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With less than two months before voters decide whether to approve the $217 million in bonds to turn the Houston Astrodome into a gigantic convention center, a new political action…
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The Brony Fan Fair is well underway in Austin this weekend, but there’s still time to catch the activities and excitement at the convention of fans of the animated series…
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Poised between activism and documentary, Frazier's photographs at the CAMH compel witnessing, not just watching.