Get used to It

New Jersey today

Houston 2001

New York today

New York looks like Houston today...

Next year, it's on

So the Artadia kids have made themselves scarce these days, handing out $15,000 and $1,500 awards in Boston and San Francisco, but next year they're back in Houston! Even better, the other city involved is Chicago, so it's a World Series rematch and a Midwest throwdown--- Houston vs. Chicago!!! We'll kick their ass. For August they have 5 openings, we have 7 or 8. (do you count A+M or Galveston?) There are about a hundred galleries in Chicago and there's about that many here. They have 2,842,000 people, we have 2,016,000; we grew 20% in the last ten years, they grew 4%. Let's take their lunch money.

Adickes Addict

lots of people take photos of David Adickes' sculptures up on Summer Street (you can see it on Google maps too), here's some by Notsuoh Photography...

Tuesday Opening?

Carl Suddath This Time, 2004

Jeff Elrod Untitled (Red), 2005

For some bizarre reason- maybe to avoid the rats that crawl the openings on weekends- Texas Gallery has decided to open their "Lines" show tonight from 6-8pm. Curated by Op artist Susie Rosemarin (aka "conceptual artist" photog Susan Rosemarin...haha) the show features representational painter Kristin Calabrese, Jeff Elrod's pathetic computer art, Sharon Engelstein, super sweet Julie Mehretu, Aaron Parazette, James Siena's urban versions of aboriginal paintings, and the pathetic little sculptures of Carl Suddath. Look for old men sipping white wine like its prune juice and not a hipster in sight. Texas Gallery is behind the River Oaks Theatre, next door to the Blue Door.

Stephanie St. Sanchez sez:

15 Minutes or Less Film Festival (if you're hispanic and have a vagina)

La Chicana Laundry Pictures and Lawndale Art Center Present
The Lone Star State's very first ALL LATINA Film Festival!

We are seeking films and videos by Latina Filmakers and Video Artists for an exclusive exhibition at The Lawndale Art Center. This is a juried show with awards. Senorita Cinema will be a part of Lawndale’s Dia De Los Muertos. Film Festival nights are October 12 and 13th with a possible extended run as an installation.

Since we want to spotlight as many Artists as possible this year we will be concentrating on short works. Any genre 15 minutes or less will be considered. This includes trailers for larger works and even music videos. Multiple entries accepted as long as the total running time does not exceed 15 minutes and they are on one disk.

Formats accepted: VHS, DVD, MINI DV, DIGITAL 8

ENTRY FEE: $15.00 JUL. 30th - SEPT. 21st
LATE ENTRY: $25.00 SEPT. 22nd - OCT. 2nd
Make Check or Money Order Out to La Chicana Laundry Pictures.
FINAL DEADLINE POSTMARKED by OCT. 2nd.!

for more information please email me at senoritacinema@yahoo.com
or check out our myspace page

Ick

Here is an ugly article about Houston from the rag "New York Resident", apparently we have the Fresh Arts Coalition to thank for it: "Article inspired by Fresh Arts Media weekend, bringing several freelance journalists to Houston to see the best art scene, the best hotels and the best restaurants Houston has to offer." Flying New York journalists down to hobnob with the rich in Houston and only getting one piddly article about it? Sad. Flying those same usual suspects to Ibiza? Boring and bizarre. This redundant organization gets a whole lotta funding from the city in the form of Houston Arts Alliance and Houston Endowment as well as The Brown Foundation and The Meadows Foundation and they pretty much print flyers, copy the content already covered by glasstire, spacetaker and artshound and mirror their member organizations' websites... where's the beef?

PS- Hey Fresh Arts, you might want to take IBP off of your website- since they're dead and all.

WHOOOOOO!!!!!!! Wasted on Sunday!!!!!

Rafer Alston, perennial steady Rockets guard, was arrested at 2:30 am in downtown after a heavy night of partying.

Walkable? C'mon, its Houston!

So you can look up your neighborhood on walkscore.com to see if you might be able to keep the car in the garage. I scored an 85 out 100 in the Montrose/ Hyde Park area, highly walkable- as long as it isn't 100 degrees and humid!

High Art

Up on the fourth floor of U of Houston is probably the highest art show you'll find in town (besides the soft-boiled fair on the top floor of the Williams Tower in the Galleria) The Daniel Radcliffe Dong Party was a good time last Friday, until UHPD decided to try and bust everyone. Cody Ledvina took the heat and kicked the Keystone Kops off the fourth floor; why would they try to bust an art show serving wine and beer? Are they unfamiliar with the concept? Anyway, I went back Sunday to catch some pics of the artwork, enjoy!

Group 925

Group 925

Group 925

Jeanne Casanova

Amye MacCarther

Jeanne Casanova

Cody's studio calling card

Nick Meriwether

Buffalo Sean

b.s.

ditto

Buffalo Sean

Norberto Gomez

Norberto

Norby!

same guy...

Norby

Norberto Gomez

Skeez sez:

So the Chinhui Ome show at CSAW yesterday went off without a hitch, or so I thought. When I was there organizer Skeez 181 even said "It was nice of Maggi to provide us with rent-a-cops", but I guess that wasn't the full story. The Mexican Arsenal had a full contingent of Aztec dancers, including many well-known dance teachers and performers from San Antonio and further afield. Apparently Maggi Battalino's motivations were not clear at the time, as Skeez has taken the time to blast CSAW's financial director for muscling everyone out of the building when she decided it was time to go. Seriously- more than half of the crowd was families with small children when I was there at 7 pm. Tack another complaint onto the growing list- only allowing artists with Masters degrees into new studio rentals, attempting to enforce a dress code and banning smoking. Here's what Skeez has to say:

On behalf of the Mexican Arsenal art crew here at CSAW , We would like to thank eveyone who helped out in yesterday's Aztec Dance & Art show. The show went on as planned with a beautiful crowd of families (which consisted of young and old) We also would like to APOLOGIZE for one of our neighbors (Maggi Battalino) who decided to hire ARMED Harris County Constables to "secure" the warehouse....since she automatically assumed we would need law enforcement for mexican families with children (who were the majority of the people here last night). There was an art show at CSAW a couple of days before....was there ARMED Harris County Constables there to "secure" the warehouse? ....of course not! ...Ms. Battalino's actions to hire ARMED officers to "secure" the premesis and kick everyone out at the "appropriate" time is a total embarrasment to us....One officer was even trying to kick ME out! ....until i told him i lived @ CSAW. When I asked Ms. Battalino about the officers here, she replied "I invited them here." Then I asked one officer if he got paid to come and he said YES! ...must be nice to get a paid invitation!! Ms. Battalino's "Power Trip" yesterday didn't fall to well in my books. She is CSAW's financal director...not our DICTATOR!!... I just wanted to bring this to everyone's attention since i smelled something funky in the air when i saw the cops here and of course Ms. Battalino trailing behind.....totally uncalled for.

our apologies,

Skeez 181

PLEASE REPOST SO EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT MS.BATTALINO!!

FIGHT THE POWER!!

Sweet

So I was driving around and saw a new piece by DUAL that was some super funny shit- right in the middle of an ad for townhomes near Westheimer and Mandel... I wonder how long it'll be up there...

One to see

Paleta::Pallet (Made in the Philippines), 2005

Paleta::Pallet (Made in the USA), 2005

Besides the new building- with it's IKEA color scheme and compact but detailed floor plan- the new show at the new Mackey Gallery is very good! Colorado artist Yumi Janairo Roth shows some smaller works- funny pallets perfect for enticing shipping moguls into buying art. Meanwhile David Ubias holds court in the back room- his drawings bounce back and forth between punning little jokes and funny visual ones- and they are very successful at it. The "Museum Quality" piece is funny as shit.