The heroines that populate Choi’s work at CAMH are tough, and joy is hard-won in the Cosmic Womb.
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Lauren Kelley has been named executive director at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling in New York, reports Artnews. Kelley joined the museum in 2013 as part…
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Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, is leaving Houston to become the new curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on vintage photos from Tornado Alley, an artist who trusts the social contract, and really fast paintings that should be awful but work like a charm.
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There is no adjective to this headline because Vito Hannibal Acconci was an American designer, poet, landscape architect, performance and installation artist—and not easy to pin down. Acconci died on…
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Those who were fortunate enough to see the 2010 exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (or elsewhere) know that Hendricks is the…
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Choreographer, dancer, and visual artist Trisha Brown died on Saturday in San Antonio. She had been treated for vascular dementia since 2011, reports The New York Times. A founding member…
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In this historical moment in which democratic institutions around the world are are under attack, programs like the Teen Council and its exhibition feel necessary and urgent.
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Yesterday, artnet News published an article entitled “28 Ways to Change the Art World For the Better,” and #5 on the suggestions list was from Curator Dean Dedarko of the…
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Top Five Special Edition! Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on the top five art venues that have made it into our weekly Top Five.
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For those Houstonians who have never visited the Heritage Society Museum Gallery, now is the time. Its current exhibition, This WAS Contemporary Art: Fine and Decorative Arts in Houston 1945–1965,…
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The visual effects of Rosmarin's paintings seem to be to be almost a byproduct of her need to create an orderly universe.
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Rigorous, personalized photography like Blakemore’s could not be more important than it is today.
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Tonight, at the opening of Right Here, Right Now: Houston, Volume 2 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, artist Thedra Cullar-Ledford had a performance where two breast cancer survivors destroyed a boob-shaped…
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Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on how to sing a show title, old art feeling new again, and how some artists have minions.
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In conjunction with its current exhibition Mark Flood: Gratest Hits, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) will present A World of Our Own: Mydolls and the Houston Punk Scene this…
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We are beginning to slip into the summer doldrums where galleries close for a few months and museums mount their kid-friendly summer shows. Normally around this time programming slows down—but a…
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Mickey Rosmarin, philanthropist and founder of Tootsies Houston, died Friday of a heart attack in his Houston home. He was 63 years old. For more than 40 years, he was…
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This weekend, Houston will be showcasing some great work by teen artists. At the Aurora Picture Show, the 3rd annual Extremely Young Film Festival features creative short films under three…
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Not only did Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) Director Bill Arning give a bunch of shout outs to Houston artists (Nathaniel Donnett,Trenton Doyle Hancock, Autumn Knight, Jamal Cyrus and Phillip…