As October comes to a close and a myriad of music festivals prepare to land in the city, Houston is buzzing with arts and cultural events. The Good Vibes Only HTX takes place this weekend and the highly anticipated AstroWorld Fest in early November. Festival fun doesn’t stop at music though, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival has a stacked lineup. In the ...
Houston's ART scene this season is stacked with action-oriented happenings. From The Houston Art Alliance's annual gala this Wednesday, October 13 to the Black Theatre Coalition and Broadway Across America joining forces in search of fellowship applications, the city is in full-on philanthropy mode. Here’s more art news for your week. The Station Museum of Contemporary Art Mounts Inspiring New Exhibition In support of the Collective ...
One of the most positive pieces of art news we received during the pandemic has a photo focus. Houston Center of Photography’s departing director Ashlyn Davis Burns shares that she had a new project in the works: Assembly, a smart, artist-focused website that just launched this spring.It’s already generating buzz in the international photography community. Why?Look no further than cofounders Davis Burns, based in ...
Tokyo – When you step into one particular gallery in the Otsuka neighborhood of Tokyo, you will feel a little bit of Houston. The Misako and Rosen Art Gallery is owned and operated by Houston-native Jeffrey Rosen and his wife Misako.“My art education began in the Museum District,” said Rosen.He grew up in southwest Houston and West University, but has called Tokyo home for ...
Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture Tau Lewis in her Brooklyn, N.Y., studio. | Photo by Flo Ngala, Courtesy National Gallery of Canada Representation Jamaican-Canadian artist Tau Lewis is now represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery in London. Lewis makes hand-stitched, sculptural portraits and quilts composed of upcycled materials sourced ...
The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, an organization that researches works looted during World War II, is calling on the Museum of Fine Arts Houston to return an 18th-century painting to the heirs of a German-Jewish collector. The MFA asserts that the sale of the work was “legitimate” and that there is therefore no need to restitute the painting. In a ...
Lisa E. Harris, a Houston-based independent and interdisciplinary artist, is the inaugural Houston Regional Affiliate Fellow for the American Academy in Rome. Photo: Roman holiday, but make it art school. Independent and interdisciplinary artist Lisa "Li" Harris will spend eight weeks in Rome, Italy next summer as the inaugural Houston Regional Affiliate Fellow. Through a partnership between the American Academy in Rome and the ...
Washington — Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo, who used to lead the Houston Police Department, called a new measure approved by the Texas state Legislature that would allow people to carry handguns without a license "ridiculous" and urged Governor Greg Abbott to veto the bill."There's something that God gave us and that is common sense, and common sense tells us that that is ridiculous," ...
The state’s largest contemporary art show is seeing a few changes this year, with one of them being that the show is debuting in San Antonio and Houston.Big Medium, an Austin nonprofit “dedicated to supporting artists and building community through the arts in Austin and across Texas,” announced 51 participating artists and five museum partners of the 2021 Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A ...
Israel Rodriguez poses in front of his mural "Google: Derek Chauvin." Photo: Amil Velasquez / Amil VelasquezIsrael Rodriguez admits that he didn’t follow the trial of Derek Chauvin too closely. Not until Instagram posts flooded his feed (@ir_artwork) announcing that jurors found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty of murdering George Floyd. That’s when Rodriguez, an abstract portrait artist, took notice. Color-blocked canvases are ...
