8 feet of water + 15 days to sit = lots of damage….or if you’re a resilient artist, lots of inspiration.
Galveston’s DesignWorks bounces back after Ike | Fine Arts | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
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Artist Rebuilds…
Not in Houston, but close enough.
“The Bone House was Dan’s baby, the 12th house to embody his Phoenix Commotion’s wild mix of art, ecoconsciousness and serious attention to affordability — all in Huntsville. Dan and his crew had fashioned the strangely beautiful house out of things destined for the dump: scrap lumber, old signs, old T-shirts. Bottle caps covered one floor, wine corks another. Mosaics made of broken mirrors and old CDs glinted from the walls of the studio in back…
The “Phoenix” part used to be purely a metaphor about rebirth and reuse, he said. Now they had actual ashes to rise from.”
via Can the Bone House rise from the ashes? | Fine Arts | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
Photojournalists are like athletes
“Anne Wilkes Tucker, curator of photography at the MFAH, …said she strongly disagrees with those who attribute [photojournalist] Garcia’s success to dumb luck. “When Willie Mays was exactly in the outfield where the ball came down, that was not an accident,” she said. “Photojournalists are like athletes in that way.”
via Iconic shot of Obama began as just another assignment | Fine Arts | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
Inversion to Give and Take
The guys who turned the Art League Houston bungalows into traffic-stopping art on Montrose are at it again. Hopefully this time with less impact on local traffic flow.
Gray: Inversion creators are back for more | Arts columnist | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
Chron bloggers call it as they see it
Douglas Britt brings to light some interesting administrative developments over at the University of Houston’s Blaffer Gallery…
Curator for Menil Collection gets Gold Rush nod
Congrats to Franklin Sirmans, the Menil Collection’s curator of modern and contemporary art [‘NeoHooDoo’ curator], for being chosen as a recipient of one the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation’s inaugural Gold Rush Awards.
via Arts in Houston: ‘NeoHooDoo’ curator gets Gold Rush nod.
Years of work made Sandel one of Houston’s top actors
Don’t give Joel Sandel that old canard about how it’s impossible to piece together an acting career in Houston unless you get hired as a company member at the Alley Theatre.
Sandel’s been doing just that for 20 years, chiefly as a mainstay at Main Street Theater, but with regular work at the Houston Shakespeare Festival and other companies — and only two gigs at the Alley, thank you very much.
Follow the link below to read the full article.
via Years of work made Sandel one of Houston’s top actors | Fine Arts | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
Outpost on the Eastern frontier
Houston’s Deborah Colton Gallery has launched Outpost NYC / DCG in New York City in collaboration with New York-based art writer/curator Liutauras Psibilskis, who curated the 2007 Chemical City exhibition at Deborah Colton’s Houston space. The new venue will begin by sharing space with other institutions, but aims to establish its own permanent space in Lower Manhattan. In other year-end news, Colton has announced the promotion of Selene Arrazolo to Assistant Director.
via Glasstire: Texas visual art online – Outpost on the Eastern frontier.