Andy Warhol

Capsule Art Reviews: "A chain of non-events," "Janice Jakielski: Constructing Solitude," "Jonathan Leach: Time Does Not Exist Here," "Maxim Wakultschik: FaceTime," "New Work: Drawings, Collages, and Tiles"

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Album-Cover "Controversy" Bores Me

The release of the "controversial" cover art for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' forthcoming album, Mosquito, has managed to stir up quite a bit of buzz. (Leave me alone. I like puns.) If you've somehow managed to escape the album-cover hype, I'll let you in on a little secret: you're not missing much in ... More >>

FBI Seeks Help Apprehending a "Bundled Up" Bandit

I've long admired the FBI's wit when it came to criminal activity, particularly when it involved odd looking or strangely dressed bank robbers. They've had fat guys and dudes in wigs and sunglasses. They always manage to twist it into something funny even if the crime is anything but. Fact is, all ... More >>

Special Best Of Edition: Why Do Mexicans Put Stickers Honoring the Dead on Their Car Windows?

And why do Chicano Studies professors always wear guayaberas?

Ann Arbor Film Festival 16mm Touring Program

Men in Black Goes Back in Time

Warhol on TV

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

10 Sexually Suggestive, Food-Related Album Covers

​ If there are three things we report on quite well here at Houston Press Blog Central, it's food, sex and music. So, hell, let's merge 'em! Here is a rundown of ten of the most sexually suggestive, food- related album covers that caught our eye and gave us the craziest cravings. 10. Katy Pe ... More >>

Tax The Wolf Shines As Velvet Underground

Photos by Marco Torres​Who loves the sun? Tax the Wolf does. Dressed for the occasion in ties and turtlenecks, the Houston prog-rockers downshifted into downtown chic to cover most of the Velvet Underground's 1970 album Loaded at the return of Rocks Off's Reduxion Wednesday night at Walter's o ... More >>

Is Ex-Velvet Moe Tucker A Tea Partier Or Not?

​The Velvet Underground has certainly had an interesting second act. After Andy Warhol's favorite NYC "party" band soundtracked countless narcotic jags and laid the foundation for everything from punk rock to shoegaze, its members went on to very different lives: Lou Reed to street-life classi ... More >>

Come as You Are

Pop muses help break the bond to Plush Lounge's previous ­occupant.

Capsule Art Reviews: "Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft", "Maurizio Cattelan", "Neopopstreetfunk II", "Steve Wolfe on Paper"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Daniel Heimbinder: Story," "Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft," "Maurizio Cattelan," "Steve Wolfe on Paper"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Claire Ankenman: Phase," "Daniel Heimbinder: Story," "Maurizio Cattelan," "Steve Wolfe on Paper," "The White Album"

Goldfrapp Gets "Physical" In Hell

​So, Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger were just chillin' in Hell (like they do), when suddenly they thought it would be pretty cool to come back and throw a party. So they contacted Olivia Newton-John, who is really a Satanic cult leader with laser-light manipulation abilities, and she raised the ... More >>

Unflinching Truths

The MFAH presents the work of Alice Neel, the grande dame of portraiture.

Lotus Effect Channel Soul Asylum, Shakespeare On Rabbits And Royalties EP

Elise Blog​ OK, in your head, we want you to picture Soul Asylum. No, not "Runaway Train." We mean the energy, angsty effervescence of something like "Somebody to Shove." Wed that haunting voice and throbbing guitars to a mild prog-rock sensibility and you have Lotus Effect's EP, Rabbits and Royal ... More >>

"Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection"

Explore the effects of other art forms on photographs during the last half century

Miss Pop Rocks: Scooby Doo Hits 40, And A Nation Asks How

​Last week saw the commemoration of a dark milestone in our country's history. Millions of Americans used this anniversary as an opportunity to reflect on the misery and hardship many are still enduring as a result. In writing this, I hope not only to correct certain revisionist interpretations o ... More >>

Media Archeology Festival: Liquid Light to the Laptop, the Evolution of Live Visuals

That East Coast/West Coast thing was happening long before rappers

Ask Joe The Plumber

How to Draw a Bunny

This artist documentary isn’t only for art lovers

“Maripolarama: Perverse City”

The influential artist Maripol exposes the see-and-be-seeners of New York’s ‘80s underground art world

“Production, Not Reproduction: Offset Printed Artist Books”

Lithography never looked so good

Art Capsule Reviews: "Amy Sillman: Suitors and Strangers," "Chemical City," "The David Whitney Bequest" and "Practice Makes Perfect"

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Holland Chaney Is Richer Than You

“Lessons from Below”

Otabenga Jones showcases works from The Menil Collection

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Art Capsule Reviews

A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

Art Capsule Reviews

"The David Whitney Bequest"

David Whitney's impeccable taste is on display at the Menil

“A Modern Patronage: de Menil Gifts to American and European Museums”

From Warhol prints to African artifacts, the de Menils stocked museums around the globe

“The David Whitney Bequest”

The Menil shows off the collection of a pop art impresario

Number of the Beeyotch

The Iron Maidens encourage you to bring your daughter to the slaughter

Walk on the Wild Side

Meet Supestar diva Holly Woodlawn at the Houston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Village Person

Arshile Gorky changed his name, but he couldn't change his painful past

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Modern Furniture

Sunset Settings

Rev Up

Motorcycle rally comes to Galveston

Leatherface to Picasso

UT's Harry Ransom Center has it all

Cartoon Networks

From the comic strip to the canvas: cartoon characters in contemporary art

Missy Elliott

Under Construction (Elektra)

Mass (Murder) Media

The satirical Series 7 exposes the black heart of reality TV

Pop Goes the Menil

More than just soup cans

Clubland

Rotation

Press Picks

The Last Warhol

A single painting encapsulates the artist's gadfly influence