Aurora Picture Show is again looking for adventurous three-minute or shorter films and videos from around the world- it has opened submissions for the 2012 edition of its popular, long-running…
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Cool People Doing Cool Stuff: Houston Counter Crawl 3 at High Noon TODAY
by Bill Davenport 0 commentBeginning at El Rincon Social in Houston’s East End, Counter Crawl III, is a sprawling multi-venue art festival which takes place at different underground, off-the-beaten-path type spaces where “cool people…
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Dallas’ institutional brotherhood weighs in on Dallas’ art scene at DMA State of the Arts
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 70 commentsLast night, the DMA hosted its latest State of the Arts panel, on the topic of contemporary art in Dallas. The panel was made up of a brotherhood of institutional…
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END OF THE WORLD TONIGHT: Don’t Forget to Empty Your Pockets at the 9th DISASTER BALL, Glasstire/Fresh Arts’ Fundraising Disaster!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentThis year is officially, really- we’re serious this time- the end of the world! So let’s celebrate disasters of all stripes (Will Lindsay go to jail again? will Italy forgive…
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KINGSPOINT, billed a “Houston’s largest graffiti mecca” (and recent recipient of a $4000 Idea Fund grant for 2012) is back with a vengeance as graffiti artist skeez181 & Southern Artists…
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The New Galveston Artist Residency will opens its studio doors on Saturday, January 28 for of tours of the sparkling new seaside (well, bayside, anyway) facility, and the works of…
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Taking it Back: San Anto Plans 43rd Chicano Civil Rights Mural Saturday
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSan Anto Cultural Arts is inviting the community to two days of dialog, discussion and planning for its upcoming 43rd Mural Project. On Saturday, January 28 community members will…
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This year is an election year in Mexico. This election will be a pivotal one for the entire country. I was living in Mexico City when the current president, Felipe…
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Fotofest Program Announced: Contemporary Russian Photography 1950–2012
by Bill Davenport 0 commentEvery other March, swarms of photographers and photo-related exhibitions swamp Houston’s art scene, and 2012 is one of those years: Fotofest’s 2012 Biennial focuses on Contemporary Russian Photography, blanketing the…
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Last Friday night, “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991 opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In it were some of my favorite Guerrilla…
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Last weekend I went with a friend to a string of local openings. Some of the shows I saw I don’t even remember looking at, although I distinctly remember every…
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According to independent student newspaper The Houstonian, Tony Shipp, longtime chair of the Sam Houston State University Art Department in Huntsville will be stepping down on August 31. Citing a…
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This one is for Margaret Meehan and Similar but Different…
by Leslie Moody Castro 0 commentI couldn’t help but take a photo of this very lonely seat on the subway in Chicago just a couple of weeks ago… Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon…
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COM Gallery Eye Torture Show: 2 Million Cameras x 10 pics . . . too bad there’s no entry fee!
by Bill Davenport 0 commentPeople with cellphone cameras within 100 miles of Texas City are invited to email their best pictures to Mayuko Gray at the College of the Mainland Art Gallery, for jurying…
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Long gone are the days when a CEO could simply cut a company check to his favorite charity. Now that it has become clear that companies can get the social…
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Wherein your narrator is roped into a dangerous collaboration in NYC, by dint of being from Texas.
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A leaking pipe in a fourth-floor closet poured an inch of water all over the concrete floors of the University of Houston’s Graduate painting studios over the recent winter holiday.…
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The ambitious, troubled Arts Center of North Texas, a joint project of six cities in Collin County north of Dallas, is foundering after the City of Frisco voted down a…
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Houston Artist William Betts has been selected for this year’s New American Paintings annual $1000 prize. Bett’s polished, mechanical images of photographs and surveillance video were featured in several editions…
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Ever discover what you want to write about something, after reading what someone else wrote about something else? Happens to me all the time—most recently, when I read an…