B.S. Houston Art Blog

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

In Dallas, as anywhere else in Texas, be careful knocking on strangers' doors. An incident a few years ago involving a teenage exchange student and a HPD cop was the most blatant example I've seen, but yesterday the keyboardist for Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians found out for himself... HERE. Read about the Texas "Castle Law" HERE.

Killer Sculpture

The massive sculpture that killed artist Luis Jimenéz will finally be finished by his family... watch out guys... chron article HERE.

Monday, September 3, 2007

Sweet

Nan Goldin The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is coming to the MFAH this November 10th...
via

Greer and Robert on the bed, NYC, 1982

Empty Beds, Boston, 1979

Banned Around the World, Coming Back to the Armpit of Texas

Buffalo, New York's most famous musical product may be Rick James or Ani DiFranco, but the dark horse contender would be the death metal group Cannibal Corpse. Banned in Germany from performing or selling their albums, the band was lambasted in the 90s by Bob Dole along with Houston's Geto Boys and Miami's 2 Live Crew. Next Saturday the Meridian will be swarming with metalheads!

Waste some time on your Labor Day and enjoy the lounge singer version of "Rancid Amputation" by Australian talk show host Andrew Hansen...

as well as the computer aided stylings of "Cannibal Ross"...

New American Midwest

Eric Lebofsky, Marathon Man

Check out the new issue of New American Paintings for the musings of Austin's Elizabeth Dunbar, Curator at Arthouse. The juror for this month's issue, Dunbar's intro essay and a preview of the paintings are included up on the mag's site, but you'll have to go to the paper product for the Q and A, featuring gems like this:

Q. "Who has the most influence on an artist's career;
the curator, gallerist, critic or collector?"

A. "The gallerist."

Make it to Miami through Tokyo

Hey American artists, Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Co. is opening their art festival Geisai to unattached artists (read: no gallery). They will select 15- 20 artists to set up at the second-tier PULSE Miami this December. Read more about it HERE. It's free.

Deadline October 1st!!!

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Black Cat Bone- Burning the Flesh Off Modern Art

This self-taught New Orleans artist weighs in on aesthetic and political issues with long passages and a promiscuous use of Youtube, his blog features titles like "John Edwards Is A Subprime Subhuman Prick That Profits Off The Misery Of The People Of New Orleans",

"Never Underestimate The Power Of A Cute Young Blond White Trash Girl To Commit Murder And Get Away With It In The Commonwealth Of Virginia" and

"SpongeBob SqaurePants (Blake Gopnik) and Squidward Tentacles (Philip Kennicott) cover System of a Down's Lonely Day for the premiere of the Washington Post's exciting new Style & Arts section"; guaranteed to give journalists hissy fits.

I found Black Cat Bone while searching for any media coverage on the death of Houston graff writer MUNIK, who was run over by a New Orleans police officer. The title "Houston Graffiti Artist Commits Suicide By Cop In The Suburbs Of New Orleans" gave me pause, but his insight is, understandably, linked to the cultural issues already swirling in the gumbo of Louisiana tensions and cynically level-headed. To quote his final thought out of context the statement may seem like a given, but don't forget- this is in response to NOPD running over a 16 year old suspect with an SUV.

"If it's too much to ask the cops to protect the lives of graffiti artists,
then can we at least agree that it's not too much to expect them
to not recklessly take the life of a adolescent graffiti artist for no reason?"

Really? At the CAMH?

Beyonce's little sister Solange Knowles' 21st Birthday Party at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston last month...

featuring a performance by Lupe Fiasco and Swizz Beats in front of Nadine Robinson's Wormwood, at 9:41 check out his shout out- "so ya know, I'm into art and all..."

also check out my friend Marcus ignoring Jay-Z at 1:30!

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Get Your War On

Drop off a tangentially "war" related piece at the Art Car Museum today or tomorrow to be included in their new show... more HERE.

Ha ha..

Ha ha ha... It took me a couple of days to find this blog about a blog HERE...

I wonder if it is Anthony Thompson Shumate? He sure has a hard-on for Matthew Barney with all the "cream-master" jokes!

I'd prefer not to be referred to as 'whitey'- especially by a German like 'Shumate'; the tenuous Irish identity in America is informed as much by rejection as by assimilation. As the balance of political power shirts here in Houston from the traditional domination by 'Texan' land owners to the rich of other backgrounds it will be interesting to see adjustments to the political landscape... weren't we supposed to redraw the City Council spots by now? "Once the population of the City of Houston exceeds 2.1 million" passed a while ago!