Tag Archives: Houston

The Poetry of Everyday Life: An Interview with Project Row Houses Director Eureka Gilkey

by Lindsey Davis | Nov 7, 2017

The Poetry of Everyday Life: An Interview with Project Row Houses Director Eureka Gilkey

by Lindsey Davis | Nov 7, 2017

Houston arts nonprofit Project Row Houses responds directly to the needs of the Third Ward community, offering both arts programming and access to social services, proving both can work hand-in-hand.

Shifting Perceptions of Houston’s Third Ward

by Sally Frater | Dec 9, 2013

Shifting Perceptions of Houston’s Third Ward

by Sally Frater | Dec 9, 2013

Writer-in-Residence Sally Frater explores Unity Foto Bank, an online project and site-specific installation in Houston, Texas.

Gastro-Vision | It Was a Sweet Year

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 23, 2011

Gastro-Vision | It Was a Sweet Year

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 23, 2011

Think sweets are just for kids? Think again: Caruth surveys ten memorable food art projects from 2011 that take a cutting-edge approach to the dessert genre.

The Sun Never Sets on Aurora Picture Show

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Aug 3, 2011

The Sun Never Sets on Aurora Picture Show

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Aug 3, 2011

Thea Liberty Nichols: On my first trip to Houston several years ago, I was able to visit Aurora Picture Show in its previous converted-church location. There was a palpable sense …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson

by Caroline Picard | May 31, 2011

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson

by Caroline Picard | May 31, 2011

When I asked Anne Wilson if I could interview her for Art21, she sent me a preview copy of her book, Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave—a catalogue published collaboratively by White Walls and …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw

by Ali Fitzgerald | Mar 3, 2011

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw

by Ali Fitzgerald | Mar 3, 2011

I fly back to Berlin tomorrow, finally ending a prolonged Kerouac walk-through of mid-sized southern cities; a spring break for the “mild girl.”  During my Texas stay, a sun constitutional …

Klein’s Big Leap

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 20, 2010

Klein’s Big Leap

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 20, 2010

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. is currently showing the first Yves Klein retrospective to hit the United States in nearly 30 years. Called Yves Klein: With …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 5, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 5, 2010

One artist in Rome, four artists in San Francisco, three artist talks from the U.S. to the U.K., and more in this week’s roundup: On April 9, Gagosian Gallery Rome …

Raiding, Mining, and Resurrecting: Maurizio Cattelan at The Menil Collection

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 19, 2010

Raiding, Mining, and Resurrecting: Maurizio Cattelan at The Menil Collection

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 19, 2010

The current Maurizio Cattelan exhibition at The Menil Collection, Houston (February 12– August 15, 2010) marks the U.S. debut of recent large-scale works, site-specific installations, and four new works. Cattelan’s …

The Menil Collection: 20th and 21st Century Art as “Daily Companions”

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 15, 2010

The Menil Collection: 20th and 21st Century Art as “Daily Companions”

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 15, 2010

“Art: Take it off its marble pedestal and show it as a daily companion, refreshing, human and rich: witness of its time and prophet of times to come.”  – John …

Flash Points

Dan Phillips: Not Merely Vernacular, Pt. I

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 4, 2010

Flash Points

Dan Phillips: Not Merely Vernacular, Pt. I

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 4, 2010

As a northerner recently transplanted to the Greater Houston area, I admit to having reservations about all things Texan. I have found this a tough place to love at first …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 31, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 31, 2009

House of Light (2000), a permanent installation in Kawanishi, Japan by Season 1 artist James Turrell, will be open through September 14 as part of the 2009 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial. …