Exploring Houston’s Visual Arts
More today about the city’s depressed recycling rate but I have a decidedly low-tech old fashioned idea that doesn’t involve the latest camera sensing technology. Houston is planning to spend a million dollars on a new sorting machine for trash. Why not defer that purchase for six months and spend $50,000 on an ad campaign [...]
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW for the first ever FOAMRAISER with Saint Arnold’s Brewery to benefit THE ORANGE SHOW on SATURDAY, SEPT 6! There will be free, foamy beverages, awesome music from Sideshow Tramps and The Grass Skirts, and much love for kooky orange monument we all love. Tickets are only $20 in advance! More info [...]
Spacetaker is giving local artists the chance to showcase their work to the general public at the Winter Holiday Art Market. The sale will take place the weekend of December 5-7, 2008, the weekend after Thanksgiving at Winter Street Studios.
The event is a three day affair, kicking off on Friday night from 6:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. [...]
The Call for Entries is open for the selection of 15 buoyant art designs to be created and installed in and on the City Hall Reflection Pool, 901 Bagby, between Walker Street and McKinney, during Bayou City Art Festival Downtown October 18-19.
“Art on Water designs become the centerpiece of the Bayou City Art Festival Downtown, [...]
The Downtown BayouCity Art Festival will happen October 18-19 from 10-6 both days. J.D. Hillberry is this years featured artist and the art festival has released some promotional material by Hillberry.
Creating Escher inspired trompe l’oeil drawings Hillberry created “A Work in Progress,” a trompe l’oeil self-portrait where the subject. J.D., is drawing on a blank [...]
Marvel, gawk, and wonder at the weirdness from Japan that so often finds itself on the intertubes. Then join the Aurora Picture Show this weekend to examine the convergence of Japanese toys, fashion, and punk rock two screenings of the documentary Toypunks.
Toypunks spotlights several top Japanese fashion designers, toy makers and artists illuminating the fact [...]
Journey into The Quest for High Bear: A Boy’s Odyssey Through Indian Country 1925-1939 and experience a lost world of American Indian heritage. Gaze in wonder at the brilliant colors of Apache and Lakota dresses, marvel at the craftsmanship of American Indian War Bonnets, and stand in awe of the prehistoric Anasazi and Mogollon ceramic [...]
I have been pondering for the past several hours where to find a photo blog akin to the Boston Globes Big Picture that tells Houston stories. My problem is, there really isn’t one that I know of.
Houstonist has their Flickr photo of the day and the Chronicle does have plenty of photo galleries smashed into [...]
Just in time for your work week to start Poison Girl will host “Drink Houston Better” benefiting Diverse Works. Join the Diverse Works staff for Drinks at Poison Girl from 5pm -2am for drinks this Sunday evening. You may also participate in a raffle for dinner for two to La Mexicana, art work from local [...]
It’s time to vote your conscience. You’ve seen it, been there to enjoy it, raved about it to your friends. American Style Magazine is looking for the best art festival in the nation and you have the opportunity to do your artful duty and vote the Bayou City Art Festival to the top. Your ballot [...]