There is too much to do in Austin this weekend! So whether you’re from here of need an excuse to visit these are my picks to help you manage your…
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Brazarre, and “artful bras” event benefiting the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life Greater Heights will showcase “creatively crafted bras by local artists” which will be auctioned off for charity…
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Piero Fenci has been named Texas Master craftsman of 2012 by the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Fenci is the fourth Texas Master, and will receive a solo show at…
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Electronic music artists Bonnie Jones & Suzanne Thorpe are going to be showing young women how to to build contact microphones and use them to turn everyday objects into instruments…
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‘It was plagiarism, a plain piece of plumbing’ – Anon., ‘The Richard Mutt Case,’ 1917. Who hasn’t copied something? Dress it up with whatever word you’d like, sampling, stealing, reproduction,…
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“Despite the fact that Galveston is a city of 50,000 and in no way large enough to sustain the sales required for a successful gallery,” the new Avis Frank Gallery…
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On Friday, April 29, Hive Houston is raising awareness (and cash) with musical performances at AvantGarden. What is Hive Houston? It’s a utopian community of creatives inside a tower of…
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Ned Rifkin, director of the Blanton Museum in Austin and UT prof, is resigning his museum job to focus on research and teaching as of May 31. The footsore Rifkin…
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Houston’s Inner Art Corridor is opening its many studio doors on Saturday, April 30 from 3-9pm. The 6th annual event showcases 100+ artists in the increasingly densely artist infested warehouse…
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Low Lives 3 is an exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted over the web and projected in real time at multiple venues around the world, including Box13 in Houston. Fifty…
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Two Friday’s ago the Texas Biennial hosted a Curator’s Meeting in Austin. The event, supported by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Linda Pace Foundation, sought to bring…
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Ex-Austin Museum of Art curator and “art conoisseur” Dana Friis-Hansen will share the stage with burlesque dancer Jori Lodes, furniture maker Michael Yates, musician Southpaw Jones, and a squad of…
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Maria Guzman interprets her world into playfully grotesque, allegorical paintings, installations, sculptures and performances. In settings inspired by a mixed cultural identity (Italy, South America and USA) Maria renders…
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Houston Mayor Annise Parker declared April 19 “Mica Mossbacher Day”, in recognition of Mrs. Mossbacher, Honorary Consul to Iceland, as the “citizen responsible for beginning (and seeing through) the process…
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Two competing art fairs scheduled for this fall in Houston have set the CAMH and the MFAH at odds. The Houston Fine Art Fair is scheduled for Sept. 15-18; The…
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The Houston Art Alliance has announced the Liz Alexander Visual Art Award, honoring the memory of Liz Alexander, a longtime HAA staffer who died suddenly in April 2010. The award,…
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Veins in the Gulf, Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin’s film about history, bayous, and cajuns will be screened outdoors in the backyard of Aurora Picture Show in Houston on Saturday…
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Outlaw Independent curator Emily Sloan has organized TX BI 2011, an exhibition of Bisexual artists from the LSS*, at Curation Myth Ministries, the latest incarnation of her studio on the…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has put the finishing touch-screen in its Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery. The new concept, with radically less art…
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The Blaffer museum at the University of Houston has unveiled images of its planned renovation by WORK architects. With a funnel-like entrance wedge, big “storefront” windows, and a space-hogging two…