Peter Mulders from Brussels, Belgium jumps for a work by Keith Haring which hangs in the Layout Department at MAKS! magazine.via Jumping in Art Museums
Saturday, May 2, 2009
That's a Good Jump
Peter Mulders from Brussels, Belgium jumps for a work by Keith Haring which hangs in the Layout Department at MAKS! magazine.via Jumping in Art Museums
Wooster sez:
You know Winter is over when guys are dressing up in a fish mascot costume and giving free bouncy rides on the L Train -via Wooster
Friday, May 1, 2009
Seventh Heaven
May 1, 1991
Nolan Ryan's 7th No-Hitter
Rickey Henderson steals #939
screw Steroid Ball, but I sure do remember that day
Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Comix Among Us
via Lana Berkowitz, Chron
COMICPALOOZA
• When: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, May 2, 2009 and noon-6 p.m. Sunday, May 3
• Where: • West Oaks Mall, Westhemier and Texas 6, screenings at Alamo Drafthouse
• Admission: Free.
• Information: comicpalooza.com
Free screenings of Greg Jurls’ documentaries about comic-book creators will be shown at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema beginning at 1 p.m. each day. Panel discussions will follow most of the screenings. Terry Moore, creator of Strangers in Paradise, will take questions after the screening of Paradise Found at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The artists will donate work for an art auction at 5:30 p.m. Saturday to raise money for the family of Leigh Boone, the executive assistant at the Houston Center for Photography who died after the collision of two firetrucks smashed the bicycle she was riding.
New York artist David Mack will contribute an original for the auction. Mack is enjoying the success of his latest hardcover volume Kabuki: The Alchemy, which made the New York Times’ new best-seller list of graphic books.
Comicpalooza organizer John Simon of Midnight Comics is pleased with the growth of the free showcase, which features many Houston-area artists/writers, including Mat Johnson, Dirk Strangely, Ryan Burton and Rodney Ramos.
“Last year it was some guys in the lobby of the Alamo Drafthouse. It was a great first step, but it just wasn’t enough,” said Simon, who started Comicpalooza as a way to strengthen the local comic-book community.
the {cosmo}Politician sez:
Peeps, please join myself and Chris Valdez this Thursday, April 30th, from 6-9pm as we excitedly host this year’s Dining Out For Life event at t’afia, benefiting AIDS Foundation Houston.
Dining Out For Life is an annual fundraising event where Houston restaurants donate a portion of proceeds to local area AIDS agencies for all lunch and dinner sales. The event takes place all across the country on this night, and Houston is a proud supporter of this cause for the 3rd year.
check it HERE.
Facebookery (Everyone's Doin It)
Artist's Eye: Chris Sperandio on Robert Rauschenberg's Cardboards
Host: The Menil Collection Bookstore
Sunday, May 3, 2009
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Menil Collection and Menil Collection Bookstore
1515 Sul Ross
Houston, TX
Phone: 7135259400
Rice University professor Christopher Sperandio will speak on the work of Robert Rauschenberg, specifically the "Cardboard" currently on display in the 20th Century gallery. The Artist's Eye series at the Menil is designed to open dialogue on specific pieces in the collection, mediated through the eyes and words of local artists. Join us afterward for a small reception on the bookstore deck where Mr. Sperandio will sign copies of his book "Kartoon Kings," a monograph on his collaborative work with British artist Simon Grennan. Have a frosty beverage and talk with Chris.
Houston Indie Book Festival
Host: Art Lies
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 10:00am
through Monday, May 11, 2009 at 5:00pm
Domy Books
1709 Westheimer Road
Houston, TX
Phone: 8323661388
The event features Houston- and Austin-area independent publishers, magazines, and booksellers, all selling their wares at deeply discounted prices. Stay tuned to Gulf Coast Magazine for more details!
http://gulfcoastmag.org/
Night of the Masters and Mystics
Host: Danny McMahan
Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 10:00pm
through Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 12:30am
Avant Garden
411 Westheimer
Houston, TX
Phone: 8325191429
Avant Garden promises a night of masters and mystics with the performances of Metal Rouge and A Thousand Cranes. Metal Rouge, sound artists from New Zealand, channel the freedom of the ancient Maori of their land in their free noise/new music. It was formed in Aukland, N.Z. by Andrew Scott and Helga Fassonaki, They are performing across the United States to spread groundbreaking art from the southern hemisphere of the world to the northern hemisphere.
Discussion with Guest Editorial Contributor Stuart Horodner
Come hear Stuart Horodner and Anjali Gupta speak!
Host: Art Lies
Saturday, May 16, 2009
11:00am - 1:00pm
Lawndale Art Center
4912 Main Street
Houston, TX
Phone: 8323661388
RSVP to info [at] artlies.org
Discussion with Guest Editorial Contributor Stuart Horodner and Editor Anjali Gupta. This is an invitational event for members of Art Lies and Lawndale Art Center, become a member today!
www.artlies.org
www.lawndaleartcenter.org
Please RSVP to info [at] artlies.org!!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
I Hart Ponzi
via Brian Rogers, Chron
...
read the rest HERE
The owners of Hart Galleries, a Galleria-area auction house specializing in antiques, were sentenced to 14 years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to financial crimes in connection with their business.
Jerry Hart, 65, and Wynonne Hart, 61, pleaded guilty to misapplication of fiduciary property of more than $200,000, a first-degree felony, in exchange for prosecutors dropping charges of theft and laundering.
“Mr. Hart, you are a thief in a suit. Mrs. Hart, you are a thief in a dress.”...
Judge Randy Roll said putting senior citizens in prison was difficult, but said they did not take any responsibility for stealing money from their customers. They had faced punishments ranging from probation to life in prison.
“It was a classic Ponzi scheme,” Roll said. “They were using the newest customers’ money to pay off the oldest customers.”
read the rest HERE
Pics from the Houston Bicentennial at the joanna
on the way
all the cats and kittens in front of Emily Halbardier's installation
detailz
chicharrones on the ceiling
Jack Eriksson
Robyn O'Neill
Brian Moss
Billy Cuerto
Claire Chauvin
loafers, check. red pants, check. sweater from mom, check.
dance moves, check.
Emily Halbardier, Cheyanne Ramos and Norberto Gomez Jr.
Cody Ledvina
Eric Pearce
Collages by Bill Willis, salt lick breasts by Jack Eriksson
Bring it to Sotheby's
Design Factory
Jack's gross-ass bacon quilt hanging in the rain.
giant David Addicks Telephone on the way out
the joanna
Houston Bicentennial
craft by artists, and what the hell is art...
you missed it!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Tom Kennedy TIME
Topsy Turvey in San Francisco
Art Car Parade, 2008 (i don't know what city)
eye, gun, fins, what else do you need? (outside Diverseworks)
Art Car Parade, Houston (collage from back in the day)
Art Car Parade, Houston video madness with Tom at a young age
(w/ Ripper the Shark and purple painted lady)
one of Tom's last works- a fire-spewing whale at Burning Man
(Ahab wouldn't stand a chance)
Art Car creator and Houston native Tom Kennedy had his obituary published in TIME magazine this week. OK, it's mostly for his West Coast shenanigans, but the Chron gets a shout out and all those pics of Kennedy cruising in Screwston from the 90s to today can't be wrong.
"He was a fin man. That was Tom Kennedy's specialty when it came to his pioneering work in the art-car movement: dolphins, sharks, whales--Kennedy did all of them. After he succumbed to an unforgiving riptide while bodysurfing near San Francisco's Ocean Beach on April 12 at 48, his close friend Harrod Blank remarked that Kennedy's works were, "ironically, inspired by the sea."... he [drove] his trusty Ripper up and down the roads of Northern California with sharklike restlessness."