Exploring Houston’s Visual Arts
Proposals are needed for the the Buffalo Bayou Art Park Christmas Tree Show.
DEADLINE: September 20, 2008
The Buffalo Bayou ArtPark and the Wortham Theater will host the 2008 BBAP XMAS TREE SHOW from Thanksgiving 2008 to New Years Day 2009. Everyone is eligible and encouraged to send a proposal to the BBAP board.
Each proposal must consist [...]
After the state Republican Convention ended Saturday I walked across the street to Discovery Green to take in Dan Phillips “Glass Gazebo” installed last week. A thunderstorm was passing over just as I walked into the park so I played a game of hopscotch jumping between less rainy areas. It took a few [...]
The brand spanking new park Discovery Green located downtown will debut its first temporary art installation on Saturday. A glass gazebo designed by Huntsville based artist Dan Phillips will be on view from June 12-September 2008. The gazebo measures 16′x13′ and was created entirely from recycled glass. Parking options abound around the area which you [...]
Modern Art Notes caused a minor kerfuffle the other day posting a call to action over proposed oil development in the vicinity of the spiral jetty. I dug up some stuff the other day noting my disdane for some of the wording used. MAN updated and has posted the PDF files of the [...]
Tyler Green at Modern Art Notes posted a notice and request for action today forwarded to him regarding proposed energy development around Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake. It appears the idea is to pump oil from the area surrounding the Jetty, though no specific site has been stated and I [...]
The Landprint project at Kitchen Budapest utilizes robotic lawmowers to “print” images in fields. The hope to utilize the natural colors present in various plants and creative cutting by the robotized mowers to render the images.
They rigged up one of their lawnmowers with handmixers to mow preprogrammed text patterns into [...]
The Buffalo Bayou Art Park Christmas Tree show is on display now through January 4, 2008 in front of the Wortham Center on the corner of Texas and Smith. If you’re in the area it’s a quick walk through the courtyard to see the display.
The small trees of the show cannot compete with the [...]
Barcelona sculptor Tanya Sierra has been “losing” sculptures around Barcelona this year. She places one sculpture each month in an undisclosed location around town and waits for someone to find it and take the sculpture home. Each sculpture has a url inscribed on it for those who found the piece to contact her.
ceraperdida.com (lost art)