It’s time to let your skeletons out of the closet with the annual bash supporting two of Houston’s most progressive arts organizations, Glasstire and Fresh Arts Coalition! From 8-11 pm,…
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Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough just dug his hole even deeper. Upholding the intellectual principle of knowing on which side your bread is buttered, he made a statement defending his…
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The 2011 Dallas Art Fair will be held at the Fashion Industry Gallery on April 8-10, 2011, but the parties begin on March 24 with an invitation-only kickoff at Neiman’s…
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The Texas Commission on the Arts, after two years of record-setting grant levels, will be facing what it calls "a major cutback in funds", from the new, budget-squeezing 82nd Texas…
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A native of St. Louis who teaches at Washington University, Joan Hall is an avid sailor who is often dismayed to see plastic trash floating miles from the ocean shore. …
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NAP Church, a napping/prayer/meditation arranged by artist Emily Sloan and Napping Affects Performance (NAP) nappens Sunday, Jan 23 from 1-4pm at Little Woodrow’s Ice House, 4235 Bellaire Boulevard, Houston. Eye…
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The Burnett Foundation will sell off its set of four Matisse bronze "Backs", which it acquired in 1982 and put on display in Burnett park, before moving them to the…
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I generally have a hard time giving a lot of credit to op art. It appeals to the part of my brain that will always be 12 years old, and…
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Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss, co-founders of Fotofest announced the 2012 mega-fest’s theme: Contemporary Russian Photography, and the dates of its popular portfolio review for artists, The Meeting Place: March…
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As a kid, my sisters and I dubbed the malaise that comes on gloomy, somber Sundays a “Sunday Feeling.” It’s an awful feeling, brought on then by the threat of…
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Dana Friis-Hansen, director of the Austin Museum of Art since 2002, is suddenly leaving the institution, with a decidedly cool send-off from museum board president Lynn Sherman, who said that…
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Patricia Hernandez’s Parody of Light opened last Friday at DiverseWorks. The show, an elaborate Thomas Kinkade spoof, got a ton of advance press, including a pick in GT’s Spring Preview.…
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Using nouveau low-odor spray paint and a design worked out between the Houston Public Library and street artists Gonzo247 and MERGE360, old men of the Houston graffiti scene, are working…
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Surprise! An Ike-killed tree in Galveston that was carved into a geisha is now a sculpture, and its owner is subject to a $10 annual fee to put it in…
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No one knows the ultimate fate of the 30-foot wooden Indian head that used to greet visitors at the Texas Travel Information center on I-30 outside Texarkana. In 1990 the…
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Alexandre Hogue: An American Visionary opened at the Art museum of south Texas friday. The show collects 157 works by the long-lived and seminal Dallas artist, coincides with a new…
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Soda Tooth Contemporary, a gallery started by art students and graduates from Texas State University in San Marcos, is beginning the new year with their fifth monthly show, and hope…
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The Museum of Fine Arts Hosuton has unveiled a new website, chock full of browsable (but tiny) images from the museum’s collections. On the frontpage big pictures link to spiffy…
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Four Artist-Run Spaces in Houston from Cosmic Light Productions on Vimeo.
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If you drive west of Fort Worth on 183, eventually you’ll find Albany, Texas—home to the world’s largest per capita population of Princeton grads. In Albany, an old stone jailhouse…