Those who attended last week’s sold out Adult Lego Workshop at Houston’s Aurora Picture Show have mastered the art of stop-motion animation, with the help of the provided LEGOs and…
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The LACMA experience was like being in a glowing, sci-fi trance on another planet brimming with strange wonders. The MFAH’s exhibition, however, is embarrassingly lackluster.
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What’s more fake than the art world? Pro-wrestling.
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The Commerce Street Artists Warehouse (CSAW), the legendary Houston art space, is attempting to collect some local art history by holding a recording session at the Art League on Tuesday,…
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Busy Day for Two Houston Artists: Performance and Award Ceremony
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentRobert Hodge, and Phillip Pyle II will be taking part in the final performance of the Coming Through the Gap in the Mountain on an Elephant exhibition at the University…
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Videographer Lee Webster scouts Austin curbsides for photogenic trash with artist Jason Webb.
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Nasher XChange Announces Project VII (III Announcements Left)
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Nasher Sculpture Center announced the seventh project to be a part of Nasher XChange, a citywide, museum-organized public art exhibition in celebration of the Nasher’s 10th anniversary. The official…
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UH Faculty to Share Ten Years of a Curious Student Painting Assignment
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 2 commentsFor ten years, Professors Aaron Parazette and Gael Stack have been handing their undergraduate painting students a simple but goofy assignment, conceived with the intention of directing attention to questions…
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The placement of the works leads the visitor in an uncanny figure eight dance back-and-forth between the cells.
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People have been posing in front of the Greetings From Austin mural on South First Street since it was painted 15 years ago. Neighbors see it as a community landmark…
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Deadline for Houston Artists to Make Some Christmas Cash
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentFresh Arts’ Annual Winter Holiday Art Market (WHAM) gets bigger every year and there is only one week left for artists to apply to participate in this year’s late November…
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I wondered whether the folk traditions I remembered from my upbringing in Mexico could offer solutions to problems in technology. I was fascinated by the idea of Santeria rituals as computer code.
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Getty Museum Shares Thousands of Collection Images for Free Use
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentFinally admitting that the existence of technology, social media, and open source/open access is a fact of life rather than some conceptual interactive piece in a contemporary art exhibition, some…
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Obama Muralist Creates Sweet Portrait of Blake Shelton
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentHouston artist Reginald Adams, co-founder and president of the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH), made national news this past year as the painter (and, by necessity, re-painter) of the…
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His paintings are giant Jenga puzzles daring you to take out one last block, poised to tumble into uncomfortable corridors where race, masculinity, past, and present meet.
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NY Times Hosts Old-Fashioned Essay Contest (for the Visual Arts)
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThis summer, the New York Times has been publishing critical essays from various artistic disciplines alongside stories from readers. Next week, they will publish Holland Cotter’s essay on what inspired…
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DMA Announces Intriguing Museum Priorities: Art, Scholarship, and Conservation
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWhile LACMA’s in-house restaurant recently launched a 45-page “Tasting Water” menu and hired a “water sommelier,” the Dallas Museum of Art is actually taking over half of its atrium restaurant…
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Postproduction has been a part of the process since the medium’s birth.
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Texans Featured in ARTnews Top Collectors (of the World) Issue
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe ARTnews Top 200 Collectors issue, which came out today, features Jeanne and Michael L. (Mickey) Klein, who are among the nation’s foremost collectors and supporters of contemporary art. In…
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“Nonperforming Performance Artist” Solves a Small Mystery in Oswald/JFK Story
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentOn the upcoming 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, there has been renewed interest in the life and death of the President, such as the DMA’s thoughtful exhibition Hotel…