diverseworks

Whatever one thinks of Top-Whatever lists and segregating women from men for the sake of online clicks, we are pleased to see two Houstonians and one Austinite on Artnet’s new…

The Idea Fund has announced 12 grantees for its seventh round of funding the unfundable in Houston. Jurors for this round of grants were Ben Davis, writer, critic, and Executive…

DiverseWorks Artspace has announced that its director, Elizabeth Dunbar, will be leaving for a new job as Director of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY by the end…

Marshal and Victoria Lightman’s ever-present Houston art appreciation group, Looking at Art, turns 25 this year. Established in the fall of 1989, Looking At Art takes groups of earnest self-educators,…

  Of course it’s hot and muggy in Texas this time of year, but it suddenly seems like it’s literally the dog days of summer around here. If you missed…

Completely over the top, it seemed headed on an accelerated train to boring queer performance art, but boychild used this emotional detritus to perpetually construct masks and build identities.

And when you’re in tune, you’re in tune. -Bonnie Barnett to the LA Times on a HUM performance in a MacArthur Park tunnel One of the many, crazily ambitious avant-garde…

SonicWorks is uneven, but is saved by materials documenting DiverseWorks’ pioneering sound art presentations in the 1980s and 90s.

The Idea Fund has announced its ten 2014 grantees! The following Texas-based artists and artist collectives will each receive $4,000 to create and showcase innovative artistic projects in the coming…

Houston’s DiverseWorks states that its current exhibition The Eleventh Hour “traces a lineage of urgency and activism in DiverseWorks’ programming over the past 30 years.”  For those feel a sense…

Houston’s DiverseWorks was founded in 1982 by a group of artists who really wanted to make some noise—artistically, socially, and politically. Beginning at the peak of the Reagan era and…

Next Wednesday, Houston’s DiverseWorks will team up with students from the UH Honors College Center for Creative Work in order to present “The Great Banquet,” an evening of local food…

Seven Texas artists and arts organizations were recipients of the Mid-America Arts Alliance’s newest grants program, Artistic Innovations, created to encourage experimentation and new projects. The M-AAA supports cultural activity…

Houston artists Zach Moser and Eric Leshinsky have somehow turned shrimping into a big extended art project. They call their Shrimp Boat Projects an “artistic investigation of the Houston region…

Sixto Wagan has been serving as the director of the newly created Center for Arts Leadership at the University of Houston for a full month now, but DiverseWorks just can’t…

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced it’s Art Works Grants, and 31 Texas nonprofits have benefited, to the tune of $788,500, total. Among the many organizations presenting primarily…

Longtime DiverseWorks Performance and Artistic director Sixto Wagan has been appointed the inaugural Director of the Center for Arts Leadership at the University of Houston. Wagan, Artistic Director since 2011,…

Yesterday was a big day for venerable Houston alterna-space DiverseWorks.  Exactly 30 years ago, on February 7, 1983, DiverseWorks’ inaugural exhibition was presented at Texas Commerce Tower’s 60th floor Sky…

Diverseworks has extended the deadline for Houston-area artists who are Diverseworks members ($35, if you’re just joining now) to apply for studio visits with Naomi Beckwith, visiting curator from the…

Saw a lot of amazing art this week. Not only were the works themselves curious, mysterious, visceral and fascinating in so many ways, but in every case there was a…