Houston artists Zach Moser and Eric Leshinsky have somehow turned shrimping into a big extended art project. They call their Shrimp Boat Projects an “artistic investigation of the Houston region…
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When I was six, I saw a “chafa” (a derogative term used for soldiers in Honduras) beat up a guy so badly that he passed out. The soldier gave no thought at all to the children who were watching.
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Artist George W. Bush Experiments with New Painting Style
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentFormer President George W. Bush and Laura Bush were recently in Zambia and spent a couple of days helping to renovate a clinic, which will serve as a cervical cancer…
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HAA Gives Nonprofit Staff Members Excuse for Extra-Long Lunch Breaks: Just Bring a Camera
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is sponsoring a photography contest that should serve to get all local nonprofit arts organizations to support its latest temporary art installation The Blue Trees.…
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Every year, Lawndale Art Center invites a guest juror to go through actual, physical works of art brought into the gallery for a couple of days and whittle down the…
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Oh Show Me the Way to the Next Blockbuster Show: Two Young Curators to Take Over One Young Art Space
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentOn July 26-27 Alabama Song will present the longest running exhibition ever to take place. 27 Houston artists, and, oh yeah, there will be an ice cream truck, too.
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San Antonio to Open New Museum: Director Explains “You’re in a Western Art Museum”
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThis fall, the Briscoe Western Art Museum will open along San Antonio’s River Walk, in the original site of the San Antonio main library. The museum, which former Governor Dolph…
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San Antonio Art Spaces Diffuse: Blue Star Complex Loses Two More Galleries
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 3 commentsWhen the San Antonio Express-News reported on the transitions and renovations at the Blue Star Arts Complex in late April, they wrote that “there is a perception by many that…
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Part 1 was about the sheer supersized blue chip hype of Frieze. Pulse was less Six Flags and more neighborhood pizza parlor. Here’s some of the work for your pleasure and critique.
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Dallas Can Sleep Well Tonight Under the Bright Lights of the Flying Horse
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentIt was iffy for a while because of a neon glass shortage, but a few hours ago, Dallas city officials were told that the Pegasus sign atop the Magnolia Hotel…
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Summertime is officially here, which means it’s high season for seaweed at Galveston beaches. While most beachgoers and tourists aren’t so fond of the stinky, crunchy vegetation that can take…
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The exhilaration of a Turrell installation can be addictive, and the retrospective promises the ultimate fix, but seeing many of the artist's works together has the surprising effect of diminishing rather than enhancing their force.
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MFAH Acquires Über-Collection of Photo Books: The Heiting Collection
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWhen Anne Wilkes Tucker was named “America’s Best Curator” by Time Magazine in 2001, that was before she helped the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2002 and 2004 to…
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Senator Wendy Davis, Marina Abramovic, and the Art of the Filibuster
by Joy Harrisby Joy Harris 3 commentsBut aside from a ridiculous ability to avoid peeing on themselves, how are Senator Davis and Marina Abramovic connected and what can we learn from their inspiring stubbornness?
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MASS gallery is starting a new summer residency program called Hotbox, turning over its gallery space to three artists to use as a working studio for five weeks. Each…
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Nothing But Blue Skies From Now On: Upcoming Light Piece in Austin Completes James Turrell Road Trip Plans
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWhen James Turrell: The Light Inside closes at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in late September, Houstonians won’t have to go into withdrawal because they know (or will learn…
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Lucy Kirkman: Library of Babel at That That
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 1 commentClose to thirty dexterous, expertly rendered book pages painted on shimmery linen or transparent silk are a puzzling compendium of little known facts.
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Historic Modernist Home Demolished in Ft. Worth, Fingers Start Pointing
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentLast Friday, demolition began on the Ruth Carter Stevenson home, an award-winning house of mid-century design at 1200 Broad Avenue in Fort Worth. The demolition began just as preservationists started…
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Jenny Moore, associate curator at the New Museum, has been appointed the new executive director of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, replacing the previous director, Thomas Kellein, who stepped down…