According to the weather reports, Houston should be dried out by Wednesday evening, so it will be a great time for an outdoor screening (but bring the bug spray!). In…
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A 90 year-old artist who says he is telekinetic: the work is not only not cheesy but wholly convincing.
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Houston already knows this, so this is for the rest of the art-loving, trainspotting Texans that keep tabs on such things: Last Sunday a museum goer at the Menil Collection…
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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…
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Bill Camfield may have retired from teaching at Rice University in 2002 (where he had taught art history since 1969), but he hasn’t quit working. Over the years, Camfield has…
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Selma Composer Returns to Houston to Collaborate with Artist Robert Pruitt on “The Rauschenberg Project”
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThis fall, Houston native Jason Moran began a multi-year residency with Da Camera in partnership with the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. Besides working with…
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In conjunction with the Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, Houston’s Menil Collection will present a panel discussion called “The Influence of Gandhi and King on Hip-Hop Culture”…
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The remains of sea urchins and lost vinyl LPs become memorials to lost signals, disappearing space probes, fading heartbeats in Dario Robleto’s installation at the Menil Collection.
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The Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF) is returning with its usual explosion of films, lectures, and performances. This year, HCAF will present 50 programs in five days (November 12-16), plus…
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Picasso Vandal Announces Vague Plans to Produce a Show, a Book, and to Overturn the New World Order
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAfter spending 21 months in prison for his spraycan stunt at the Menil Collection, Uriel Landeros recently granted an interview with blogger Chris Tarango, which has been getting passed around…
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Happy Birthday to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (or “Mahatma” [high-souled] Gandhi, or “Bapu” [Papa]), who was born 145 years ago today! October 2 is also celebrated in Gandhi’s honor as the…
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Art at Halftime, on the iTunes store, and in the galleries: here are three of the thirty-five things I've seen, photographed and made notes on this busy September.
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Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa‘s co-founder and outgoing executive director, is transitioning to Ballroom’s artistic director. Today the board has named Susan Sutton as its new executive director. Sutton comes to Marfa…
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The latest act of art vandalism occurred yesterday afternoon at the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A man splashed a red substance on a blank…
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From Chin to Flynn: Menil Presents Encyclopedia in Art and Poetry
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonTomorrow evening at 7 pm, the Menil Collection will host an “Illustrated Lecture & Book Signing” with Houston-born artist Mel Chin, fresh from his retrospective at the New Orleans Museum…
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Houston’s Menil Collection announced today that Paul R. Davis will join the museum as Curator of Collections. Davis comes to Houston by way of Johannasburg, South Africa where he has been…
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It was that AHA! moment, as if I woke up from a winter sleep and was alive, feeling Mark Rothko’s art around me. Wonderful. Powerful. Unforgettable. THANK YOU Mrs. de Menil.
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What a great combo: art/words/noise—the major genres of art-making all on the same plate. Such is the stuff of MenilFest, the annual, one-day festival that’s held on the Menil Collection’s…
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The mystery is how Magritte became so ordinary.