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Houston Botanic Garden's Intertwined Balances Art, Nature

Houston Botanic Garden's Intertwined Balances Art, Nature

Houston Airports Provide Layover Entertainment Through their Artist-In-Residence Program

Houston Airports Provide Layover Entertainment Through their Artist-In-Residence Program

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Busted Babes is a New Look at Barbie

By Jef Rouner
Jan 6, 2023

Barbie, the world-famous doll and cultural icon, is looking to have a pretty good 2023 thanks to a massive film starring Margot Robbie as the titular character. However, there’s always been a slightly broken side to the doll thanks to its history as a consumable item meant for children. What...
50 Years at 5216 Montrose: The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

By Marc Minsker
Dec 7, 2022

One of challenges that many postmodern artists have faced over the last 50 years is how to create something new that transcends human imagination and yet remains fresh and innovative in light of all of the radical and transformative art produced post World War II. When the master filmmaker Stanley...
Houston Artist Leslie DeHaven Explores The Space Between in Her First Solo Art Show

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.
Oct 31, 2022

Sometimes when you’re on the road the journey seems endless, but so do its possibilities. That idea is a catalyst of sorts for Houston artist Leslie DeHaven. She’s mapped her trip into the art world, she drives the vehicle and there’s nothing but wide-open space ahead to consider and capture...
The Firebrand, the Photographer, and Black Power Converge at the MFAH

By Bob Ruggiero
Oct 10, 2022

In the fall of 1966, Stokely Carmichael was a 25-year-old rising star in the the movement and struggle for civil rights and racial equality in the United States. And he was a smart, focused and powerful speaker and organizer. Recently elected as the Chair for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
Venezuelan-Texan Artist Ender Martos Creates and Celebrates Public Art With Massive Sculpture

By Margaret Downing
Jul 5, 2022

Time was up. They’d had to compress a public art project that normally would take eight or nine months to build into a little over four months. Dozens of companies had to come together to ensure this would happen. To make matters even more intense, they were attempting this during...
Legal Questions Raised About Dusty Hill Estate Sale

By Margaret Downing
Jun 28, 2022

As reported in Culture Map today, legal questions have been raised about the legitimacy of the recent Dusty Hill estate sale with the former ZZ Top bassist's widow saying she never authorized use of her late husband's name in the sale and in fact, knew nothing about it before it...
The Impressionists Get Immersed

By Bob Ruggiero
Jun 27, 2022

Ships toss violently upon stormy seas while lights flicker amidst the sound of waves crashing against their hulls. Flowers bloom and burst with color in gardens soundtracked to soothing string instruments. Drinkers and dancers exude the energy and high spirits of Parisian nightlife in the late 19th century to the...
The Houston Press: Has Opportunities Available For Arts Critics Freelancers

By Margaret Downing
May 24, 2022

The Houston Press has a number of freelancer opportunities available for writers in the fine arts. We are looking for people to review performances in dance, symphonic music and visual arts. Book reviewers and popular culture writers are also on our wanted list. Did your love for ballet extend beyond...
Art Car Parade Revs Up For Its 35 Year Anniversary

By Sam Byrd
Apr 5, 2022

Art cars are back. The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art will host the long-awaited 35th Annual Houston Art Car Parade Weekend, presented by Team Gillman, running Wednesday through Sunday following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19.
AVM Hawkins Moves Out The Courtroom and Into Mid Main Gallery With Impetus

By DeVaughn Douglas
Mar 18, 2022

The sun is just setting over Mid Main Lofts downtown and the lights of the bars, restaurants, and businesses begin turning on up and down Main Street. The METROrail periodically whizzes by as people walk up and down stopping in and out of the shops and theaters. Waiting on the...
Opinion: Hardy And Nance Studios' Banned Proves Reading Is Fundamental

By Sam Byrd
Mar 18, 2022

On Saturday from 5 - 9 p.m., Hardy & Nance Studios will present Banned: Art Inspired by Banned Books. In it, more than 30 artists will display their works that draw inspiration from across the boards for illicit literature.
MFAH Celebrates the Mind-Bending Work of M.C. Escher

By Bob Ruggiero
Mar 7, 2022

For most of his adult life, Mick Jagger has probably only rarely heard the word “no” in response to any of his requests. But he heard it at least twice from Maurits Cornelis Escher, the graphic artist better known as M.C. Escher. It seems that the Rolling Stones front man,...
ROCO Explores The Human Experience In Canvasing The Earth

By Sam Byrd
Feb 23, 2022

ROCO will marry images to music in ways that will leave attendees gobsmacked during Canvasing the Earth, taking place on Saturday. The performance will include a world premiere piece titled "Neither Men Nor Money Justify My Worth," honoring survivors of human trafficking by Leanna Primiani and commissioned by the League of American Orchestras. This performance will also feature accompanying photos by photographer Lynn Saverese from The New Abolitionists campaign.
Immersive Frida Kahlo Animates the Famed Mexican Artist

By Bob Ruggiero
Feb 17, 2022

Mara Kahlo is standing in at the edge of a large room in a converted building near the intersection of Beltway 8 and I-10. Her gaze wanders in awe across the four walls that surround her. “It’s an honor and a responsibility to be here. I get emotional even now,”...
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Names its 2022 School Art Champions

By Houston Press
Feb 10, 2022

With thousands of entries, the young artists portion of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo continues to grow in size and to impress with the many talented students in the area. Class champions and Reserve Class Champions were named in the categories of Colored Drawing, Mixed Medium, Monochromatic, Painting, 3D,...
Fresh Arts Has a New Executive Director and a New Considerations in its 20th Anniversary Year

By Margaret Downing
Feb 8, 2022

Championing the work of local artists takes on a whole new meaning during a pandemic and its many legacies yet to be seen. How do visual artists show work if would-be customers are told to stay home? How do they continue to pay rent on studio space if there's little-...
Pivoting Because of COVID-19, Fresh Arts Cancels Its Ball and Opens an Auction

By Houston Press
Jan 21, 2022

Fittingly enough given that it is peopled with creative types, the leaders of Fresh Arts, the non-profit supporting the arts, when faced with yet another rise in COVID-19 numbers have dropped their plans for a money-making ball and instead came up with a pop-up action. The Unbelieve-A-Ball scheduled for Saturday...
The Art of Travel Isn't the Only Art At Houston's Airports

By Jessica Goldman
Dec 15, 2021

Houston’s airports are busy places with distractions galore – passengers rushing to make their flights, announcements blaring through speakers at every turn, a plethora of places to eat or drink, and shops with oodles things to buy. There’s also art. Lots of it. Huh, you might think. I didn’t know...
When Ramses II Ruled the World

By D. L. Groover
Nov 22, 2021

Throughout history, saints and sinners, czars and generals have been called “great,” from Alexander of Macedonia, Catherine of Russia, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, to Charlemagne of France, Alfred of England, and Kamehameha of Hawaii. But the first to be called so, even during his own lifetime, was Ramses II, pharaoh of...
MFAH is the Only U.S. Stop for Impressive Impressionist Exhibit

By Bob Ruggiero
Nov 15, 2021

When the pandemic caused borders to close, travel restrictions to rise, and venues to close, open, and then close again, it left a lot of folks stranded in places far from their homes. That included a group of guys with last names like Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Degas, Cézanne and...

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