The Houston Rockets and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston have teamed up with local artists to create limited edition commemorative posters honoring Rockets alumni.
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What a fool I was to believe that a few minutes would be enough time to get to the bottom of it all.
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Our list ranges from artists whose works are represented in multiple national and international museums and collections, to mid-career artists, to emerging artists — some with their first couple of exhibitions in the past year.
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Michael Peranteau, director of Art League Houston since 2012, has announced that he is stepping down in May 2017. Glasstire spoke with Peranteau on his five eventful years at the…
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A drawing by Houston artist Robert Pruitt was recently spotted in the background of a scene in the HBO half-hour comedy television series Insecure, which explores the “friendship, experiences and…
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Rainey Knudson and Brandon Zech on underdog art schools, hanging with artists at parties, and goofy press releases.
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If you give yourself less than ten minutes to compile a mental list of international and regional artists who’ve dealt with guns in their work, you rack up an impressive number really quickly.
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Houston-based webzine Not That But This–notthatbutthis.com–is celebrating its redesigned site with a party at Project Row Houses this Saturday evening. The website was founded by Nathaniel Donnett in 2012, and features…
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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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You've just spent a week installing your show at a nonprofit art space and you realize that everyone helping you, from the director down to the part-time preparator and the gift shop clerk, is getting paid for his or her time, and you're not.
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The vision of chaos that greets the viewer at the door strongly asserts Pruitt's unwillingness to supply more of his popular drawings without some conditions.
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Houston artists Robert Hodge and Robert Pruitt are two of this year’s recipients of the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Painters and Sculptors Grant Program. Twenty-five individual artists, chosen through a national…
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Houston Artist Robert Pruitt Adds Exclamation Point to Michelle Obama Speech
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonMichelle Obama hosted a luncheon yesterday for about 50 spouses (meaning almost all women) of chiefs of state and heads of government, reports the Associated Press. The event took place…
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First, the good news about the Houston Fine Art Fair: Robert Pruitt was selected as 2013 Artist of the Year. Otherwise, HFAF came back for its third year—but it did so without some major Houston galleries and some early supporters.
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Busy Day for Two Houston Artists: Performance and Award Ceremony
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonRobert Hodge, and Phillip Pyle II will be taking part in the final performance of the Coming Through the Gap in the Mountain on an Elephant exhibition at the University…
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So, what is Afrofuturism? The term was coined twenty years ago, but it’s been getting tossed around quite a bit lately, especially in the national press’ current adoration of Robert…
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Most artists would be excited to get a New York gallery show, but a solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem is a really big deal. The same day…
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The prestigious Studio Museum of Harlem in New York presents itself as “the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired…
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The Houston Arts Alliance has posted the names of the 24 recipients of it’s 2013 individual artist grants on its website. Chosen from among a field of just 79, the…
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There has been a lot of excitement about painting in Houston this year, with Aaron Parazette’s In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery and a big exhibition planned for the CAMH’s…