Christina Rees and William Sarradet are joined by Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s Kathryn Hall and María-Elisa Heg to run down the top five art events in Texas this week, including two at HCCC.
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Organized by Houston's Aurora Picture Show, guest artists, filmmakers, and curators select 20-25 pieces which screen at the two-day festival.
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The Idea Fund supports individual artists, curators, collectives, collaboratives or partnerships in the greater Houston area. Applications are now open.
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Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on real-estate branding, some great photography shows, and one upshot of very short films.
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One of Common Field's strengths seems to be in its realization that all art communities face specific challenges that need to be dealt with at the local level.
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This weekend brings an unusual and kinetically-themed event to several Houston venues.
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It’s that Idea Fund time of year again. Houston area (Harris, Galveston, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Waller, Chambers, Liberty, or Montgomery County) artists are eligible. The Idea Fund is a re-granting…
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It’s getting hotter in Texas, and that used to mean that galleries and museums would ease up on programming, throw up a three-month group exhibition, and wait out the summer…
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Christina Rees and special guest Neil Fauerso on El Paso’s ability to survive the apocalypse, the invention of art words, and a retired president’s dubious art therapy.
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Christina Rees and guest host Danette Dufilho of Conduit Gallery on a show of artists and their mentors, the trickiness of teleportation, and a Texas artist’s evolution.
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Houston’s 14 Pews is going up for sale in late February, reports the Houston Chronicle. Cressandra Thibodeaux has run the space since the summer of 2010, but will leave for…
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Round ten of The Idea Fund, a re-granting program administered by a partnership of DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation (at…
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Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on a San Antonio super-connector, artists who pass as lobbyists, and Tom Sachs' return to Texas.
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Tonight, August 16, 6-8pm, hang out with the film community and chat with film programmers from Austin’s SXSW Film Conference & Festival. Houston’s Aurora Picture Show teams up with the…
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The 21st installment of QFest, Houston’s international city-wide LGBTQ film festival, runs from Thursday July 27 through Monday July 31. Artistic director Kristian Salinas does the programming, and venues include The…
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Of course, watching a movie can’t change the world, but it can start educating folks. Tonight at 7:30pm, Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will screen Gathering Our Hearts At Standing Rock,…
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News
Carolee Schneemann Wins the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArtist Carolee Schneemann has won the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement, reports Artforum and many other art news sources. A pioneer of feminist performance of the early 1960s,…
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Christina Rees and guest host Reid Robinson on artists who are Odd Fellows, a magical pairing of two Texas artists, and a San Antonio homecoming show.
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on giving your eyes a rest with some good painting, a retrospective of a deserving artist, and making a trip up into the Panhandle.
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On January 24 at 6:30pm, Houston’s Aurora Picture Show will host a celebratory reception for the Idea Fund’s twelve Round 9 (2017) grant recipients. Each artist or collaborative will talk…