B.G. on T.V.

So they were talking about the new Blaffer Gallery show in glowing terms on ABC sunday morning
and decided to show Chantal Ackerman's From the Other Side.

Looked great from where I was sitting, I bet it stopped a lot of mothers and families and old men drinking coffee in their boxers in their tracks.

Just So You Know...

Gather with us this Wednesday at the SILO as we gaze at a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE!

ArTistS include:
SPACE CITY GAMELAN
AUDIO TELEPATHY
SASHA BRAVERMAN
KELLY HERTz


Things to bring:

Food
Beverages
Binoculars
Telescope

FREE KEG BEER
BYOB!

ONLY $5

There will be PYRAMIDS,ART CARS, POI dancers and SKY LANTERNS.

DOORS OPEN at 7pm!
GET THERE EARLY!!!!!!!!


The moon begins moving into Earth's shadow at 7:43 pm. Totality begins 78 minutes later at 9:01 pm and lasts for 51 minutes.

Let's Do It!!!

OMG Lets Throw a Reality Show

who should be the crotchety critic?
the stupid-joke cute-face host?

who wants to foot the bill?

what would be the prize?

Well That Sounds Easy

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Tuesday Morning Cartoons

A little Smith for ya!

Not Artful, But Funny.

seeing Bill Clinton's boner at the Hyatt Regency
in Downtown Houston today

$1000



seeing Barack Obama's cowboy hat at the Toyota Center
nine blocks away tonight

$0

Remember Good Words

Always Cite Your Sources!

Huey Newton Bio

Noise Comes From France, Too.

L'ocelle Mare

kai/ros

Science!

Coral Star, Michael Field

An article from Science News explores a recent exhibit at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego in January, featuring top billing for University of Houston professor Michael Field! His Gallery of Symmetric Chaos featuring recent fractal work brings up Damien Hirst splatter paintings, Nancy Graves and Terry Winters, but science-ier.

Spare a Moment?

typical night at Notsuoh (note background nudity)

The Panhandler's Chapbook Release Party is this Wednesday, 9pm at Notsuoh. Chapbook award winner will be reading her poetry at this one time only event!

Come hear a wonderful new Texas artist, buy our new chapbook, and support the revival of the Panhandler! Free admission, Open reading to follow event.


For more information, check out the Panhandler's Myspace page!

Panhandler Myspace


Be there!

-The Panhandler

El Oeste de Tejas

from Frank @ the Artshouston blog:

How (and when) did your collaboration with Kent begin?

Back in 1999 Kent had a reading of his novel Plainsong at Brazos Bookstore here in Houston. I’d read the book and thought it was one of the best things I’d seen on the High Plains, the country that I’d been photographing for over twenty years. I also thought that his writing transcended regionalism – that Plainsong simply was one of the best novels I’d read period, and that the man who wrote it and I seemed to have a similar take, not only on the High Plains, but also generally on life. He seemed a kindred spirit of sorts.

...

There was a lot of time standing around, and it quickly became clear that we had much in common. Both of our fathers were ministers: Kent’s Methodist, mine Presbyterian. We had similar tastes in literature, politics and humor and oddest of all, we were dressed almost identically – down to the same boots.

...

Kent sent Duke a writing sample and I sent photos – we drew up a proposal and got to work. And we decided to proceed whether or not we got the award. So I shipped him up work that I had done recently on the Llano Estacado of Texas (Kent lives in Salida, Colorado). And Kent sent me small bits of writing, pieces that were evocative of the Plains - the place, its history, human relations, weather, current issues, overheard remarks — wonderful and multidimensional bits of writing that often were very visual.

I read a review of the book that says: “West of Last Chance is a book for people who are in on the secret of the Great Plains.” What’s the secret?

There is a wonderful secret. And one of the reasons I wanted to publish this book and my earlier book On the Plains, was to share that secret. It is a resonant place. The mantra for West of Last Chance is the following;

“You have to know how to look at this country. You have to slow down.
It isn’t pretty, but it’s beautiful.”

...

There is a quiet beauty, a scale of space that exists nowhere else, a set of colors and a quality of light that I have come to love and a subtlety that merges with grand space in a way that for me is intoxicating. I love being out there. I love those struggling, tenacious little towns. I’ve come to have great respect and affection for the people I’ve come to know – and it’s a nice thing to share.

Them kids'll be out offering a reading at Harris Gallery this Tuesday (2/19) from 5-7 pm
and then also at Brazos Bookstore on Thursday (2/21), 7 pm

Troy Likes My Metaphors

Thanks Troy, for the backhanded compliment of stealing my most prevalent metaphor (the title of my Houston Free Press articles for the past five years) and also for providing a pivotal article in this week's Houston Press. Taking Londoners to task for being hackneyed versions of Houston artists is so Houstocentric I have to give you props, man! Fight the big artworld man, yo.

I'll take my props for this sentence;

"This is the debris of now."


DEBRIS article 2/1/08

DEBRIS article 4/1/07

et al.




Adam Humphries, Free Dirt 2, 2008


Oh, and this really doesn't work for me;
"How far can a sculpture of a boulder go in terms of collectible value?"

Um, sculptures of boulders are all over America.
The part you missed is that sculptures made out of styrofoam have no collectible value.


Oh yeah, this sentence sucks too.
You sure did read your own Calvinist metaphor into Shane Bradford;
"There's no such thing as freedom of choice; there is only fate."


Don't hold your breath for this, but someone else should take you up on the free exhibit title;
"Maybe CTRL should organize a homegrown show and call it "The Bayou Trawlers." It would be an interesting counterpoint to these Londoners' quest for treasures buried in the urban muck."

Any takers? Free titular reference and precedent!