Advocates of a Latino Museum of Cultural and Visual Arts & Archive Complex in Houston, Harris County and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston have announced a call for proposals for temporary outdoor sculptures.
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"Graffiti has also become a popular art form among the property owners who once disapproved — now many building owners commission graffiti artists to adorn their walls with murals."
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The Air Terminal Museum at Hobby Airport In Houston will partner with local artist GONZO247 to paint a 1969 Hawker jet.
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Covering 22 concrete pillars under the I-45 freeway at Cullen Boulevard, the Perspectives mural project capitalizes on bright colors and large, defined shapes to transform the underpass into a work of art that will attract the attention of passers-by.
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Many towns have artists who extol their city’s virtues (think Gonzo247’S “Houston is Inspired” mural), but artist Chance Bailey Johnson truly loves El Paso. Johnson explains: We have so many…
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The Houston Urban Experience (HUE) Mural Festival, presented by Houston First, is happening again from Saturday, October 15 to Saturday, October 22. Over 100 artists from around the world, including…
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Aside from the plethora of Daniel Anguilu murals blanketing downtown and midtown (and elsewhere), Houston has had tons of mural activity recently. The Houston Chronicle reported on Gonzo247’s latest mural…
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Gonzo247, aka Mario Enrique Figueroa Jr., has been commissioned by the NCAA and Final Four Houston Local Organizing Committee to create a graffiti-styled version of the NCAA bracket, reports Your…
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Only days after Houston graffiti artist GONZO247 announced that he and Carolyn Casey-Figueroa have established The Graffiti and Street Art Museum of Texas (GASAM), some ugly street art has been…
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Texas loves its graffiti: from Austin’s graffiti wall to the “enhancements” of Amarillo’s Cadillac Ranch, it truly is everywhere. In the past couple years, the institutionalization of graffiti has also become…
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Red Bull has added Houston as one of its stops on the tour of “Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project,” in which they invite 20 local artists to make…
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The Euro-based aerosol fest comes to Houston: The sun was out, and a breeze was blowing the paint fumes away across the lake of roof-leaked rainwater. It was a beautiful afternoon to be on a ladder.
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Artist David Adickes has spent the past few days with a crew installing his latest work, a multi-colored sculpture that spells out “We (heart shape) Houston.” It does not seem…
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There has been a lot of graffiti in Houston news this month. First, there was Gonzo247’s unveiling of his Market Square mural (part of the of the Houston Is Inspired…
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Aerosol Warfare has been a Houston institution for over twenty years, and for much of that time, GONZO247 has been the engine driving the website and studios. GONZO247 and his…
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Carvers Take Chainsaws and Blowtorches to Blocks of Recycled Rainwater at for 4th Ice Sculpture Showdown
Discovery Green’s 4th annual ice sculpting competition features a dozen acclaimed ice artists from around the country using chainsaws and blow torches to battle for total domination this Saturday, January…
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Gonzo247 of Aerosol Warfare has just put the finishing touches on a mural in the second floor of the Saint Arnold Brewery in Houston’s Fifth Ward. Gonzo has become the…
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Aerosol Warfare’s enormous mural, twining its way through the Houston Public Library’s underground parking garage is finished, and will be unveiled TODAY, Thursday, Oct 27 from 3-5 pm at the…