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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.

Hawkins first solo show is being held at Mid Main Lofts downtown.

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...

Literature just became a lot more interesting.

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.

"Bond of Union" lithograph by M.C. Escher, 1956.

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 will debut a thrilling marriage of music and imagery this weekend during Canvasing the Earth.

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.

View of a portion of the digital walls in "Immersive Frida Kahlo."

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,”...

Reserve Grand Champion Work of Art by Mia Huckman of Lamar CISD. "Partners in Time"

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 Mural Tour in 2019, showing off the mural by Alex Arzu at 1800 Washington Ave.

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-...

"Don't Throw Me Away, I Have Worth" by Anthony Pabillano

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...

"At the Races in the Countryside" by Edgar Degas, 1869.

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...

"Joni Painting Outside," 1969, Laurel Canyon. She is painting a portrait of Nash, which he still has.

Graham Nash's Life Through the Lens

By Bob Ruggiero

Nov 5, 2021

Graham Nash has been making music for more than 60 years. First with friend Allan Clarke, then as the pair co-founded the English Invasion group the Hollies, and later as a member of Crosby, Stills and Nash (and sometimes Young). He also had a consistent and intertwining solo career. But...

With the Immersive Van Gogh Experience, Houstonians can no longer say, "She doesn't even Van Gogh here."

H-Town Is Immersed in Van Gogh

By Sam Byrd

Oct 21, 2021

The freshly launched Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit provides a 360-degree experience that plops them right into the mind of the decorated painter. Audiences get whisked away with Van Gogh’s paintbrush in a swirl of color, brought to life with over 90,000,000 pixels of animation and approximately 100 state-of-the-art projectors.

The Museum For Black Girls Pop-up Opens in Uptown Saturday

By Houston Press

Oct 15, 2021

A museum dedicated to celebrating the experiences of Black girls and women opens this Saturday in Houston's Uptown, following a similar pop-up exhibit in Denver. The Museum for Black Girls will highlight and promote ten female artists of color who will present their own work, performances and events. According to...

The centerpiece of the Experience is a large room with 360-degree digital/animated projections of Van Gogh's work, including one of his most famous paintings, "The Starry Night."

Mind-Bending Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience Adapts the Troubled Artist for the Digital Age

By Bob Ruggiero

Sep 18, 2021

Of all the Impressionist painters, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) is likely the genre’s Biggest Rock Star. An artist whose name and work is recognizable even among the general non-art loving public, and whose rudimentary life sketch only burnishes his image (the madness, the poverty, the suicide and that auditory appendage...

French Impressionism Stars in the MFAH Exhibit From Monet to Matisse

By Bob Ruggiero

Jul 6, 2021

Though he was of German-Argentinian descent and educated in the United States at Harvard, author philanthropist Georges Bemberg (1915-2011) had a passion for France, French culture, and in particular Impressionist art cultivated during his many years of residency there. Before he died, he created The Bemberg Foundation that oversees the...

Houston Ballet’s David Rivera and Aoi Fujiwara filming Stanton Welch’s ADROIT: clever or skillful in using the hands or mind.

Houston Ballet Dances to A Little Night Music at MFAH's Kinder Building

By Margaret Downing

Jun 16, 2021

Among all the unexpected side effects of the prolonged pandemic, was the swing from live shows to filmed productions for many of the performance groups in Houston. For Daniel Rivera, Houston Ballet’s Associate Director of Audio and Visual Services, it meant a rather sizeable leap from making in-house and short promotional...

Houston's Orange Show For Visionary Art has organized Daytime and Nighttime Experiences for visitors will all events taking place at The Orange Show Monument from May 14-16.

The Art Car Parade Rolls In Differently This Year

By Gladys Fuentes

May 5, 2021

The Houston Art Car Parade has been a yearly tradition since 1988 and one of the city's most festive and eclectic celebrations of artists in the community. Every year the much anticipated event is sandwiched into a fun weekend where art cars can be seen cruising all around Houston’s busy...

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