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College Night at the MFAH
Image: Audris Ponce In Houston, “College Night” is a phrase typically seen on nightclub ads luring students with cheap drinks. Last week, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston held a college night of its...
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Chopped and Screwed
Image: Peter Beste Peter Beste is a documentary photographer based in New Mexico and New York City. An exhibition of his photographs of the Houston rap scene is now on display at the Houston Museum of...
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Shooting H-Town
Kathy Adams Clark, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Birder’s World, and National Geographic Books, is one of the top nature photographers in Texas; with her husband, writer Gary Clark,...
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A Festival for Frida
Nestled in the colorful Tlaquepaque Market in Eastwood is the East End Studio Gallery, home to the Frida Festival, an annual art exhibition inspired by the work of Frida Kahlo, one of Latin America's...
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Playing with Light
Image: Photo: Nash Baker © nashbaker.comEphemeral and translucent, Soo Sunny Park's artwork floats above your head, seemingly as delicate and playful as clouds. Yet the undulating shapes of Park's...
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Boxes for Freedom
Image: Michael Hardy Nicola Parente's installation Colony Collapse at the Spring Street Studio The Winter Street and Spring Street studios will open their doors tonight from 6-10 p.m. for their spring...
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Thoroughly Modern
Do you love modern art? Modern architecture? All things modern are being celebrated in Houston this week, leading up to the weekend's two-day Modern Market at the Winter Street Studios. Local and...
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A Modest Proposal for the Astrodome
Flicker user JWSherman Houston could use its own version of the Guggenheim Museum that Frank Lloyd Wright built in New York., and the Astrodome is available. It is otherwise useless now and too...
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In honor of one of Latin America’s most beloved artists, Frida Kahlo, the East End Studio Gallery played host to the 8th Annual Frida Festival over the course of three days. Under the covered patio of...
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Happy Birthday, Discovery Green
Image: Alan ParkinsonDiscovery Green is celebrating its fifth year with a series of special events, the first of which will be unveiled Monday—a giant, walk-through "immersive experience" art...
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Elliott Erwitt: Master Class
In a career that spans more than six decades, Elliott Erwitt has photographed many of the iconic figures of his time, including Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, Jackie Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich and Richard...
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The Museum Experience
To help expose people to the 19 institutions that comprise Houston's Museum District, the Houston Museum District Association has devised what they're calling the Museum Experience. On the last...
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Seduction by Subduction
Image: Courtesy of Bob RussellHouston artist Bob Russell got the inspiration for his new series of drawings from the Menil Collection’s blockbuster 2007 Robert Rauschenberg exhibition “Cardboards and...
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Sailing to Byzantium
Image: Paul Hester Crucifixion of Christ (detail). Crete. 17th Century. The Menil Collection, Gift of George R. Bunker.Byzantine Things in the WorldMay 3–Aug 18The Menil Collection1533 Sul Ross...
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Illuminating Turrell
Image: Flickr user CjayD"Ecologies of Art, Architecture, and Theory"May 3 at 6 James Turrell SkyspaceMay 4 from 8:30 to 4:30 Farnsworth Pavillion, Ley Student Center Rice University6100 Main...
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Art Cars for Dummies
Image: Alex Eben MeyerDon’t get us wrong. We’d love to take a chainsaw and blowtorch to our car, and not only because such efforts would turn heads at the city’s Art Car Parade on May 11. But let’s be...
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The Urban Forest
In 2009, Houston artist Terrell James was invited to exhibit her work at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina. To prepare for the show, James traveled to Wilmington and met up with...
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A Man and His Gallery
Image: T. Matsumoto "Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)" by Cy Twombly in the Cy Twombly GalleryOn May 21, Yale University Press will publish The Cy Twombly Gallery, the...
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A Man and His Gallery, Part II
Image: T. Matsumoto The Cy Twombly GalleryCarol Mancusi-Ungaro, a former conservator at the Menil Collection who worked intensively with Cy Twombly, contributed one of the two catalogue essays for The...
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