Saturday in the Warehouse District

Saturday August 9th
Three Muse Gallery x Electric City Org.



x Reprogram Music
present:

Do it any way you wanna!
dance party, art show, social affair..

with djs:
Damon Allen from Boys + Girls Club
Skull Gang Disco: Ceeplus Bad Knives, Juan the Terrible, Prkl8r
Grrrl Parts: Gab-e + Natasha Ninjason
+ more tba very soon

art works by:
Jonathan Jackson
Robert Hodge
Belltower Sphinx
+ more

Three Muse Gallery / 2020 Commerce / 10pm-late / More info tba soon

Seen Drudge Today?

HOUSTON ON ALERT FOR EDOUARD

I kind of like the pic he used for the city... wonder where he stole it from. Have any ideas?

Schlumberger in the House!

Who was spotted hitting up the Jonathan Meese party at the Watermill Center? Christophe de Menil, heir to the Schlumberger fortune and the Menil Collection pedigree. Howard Stern and one of those dudes who lost Project Runway were there too!

via Artforum Diary

Stupid Saturday

Seriously Stupid

Thanks to Chicago

Secret Saturday Festival

1206 W. 20th in the heights
(713) 869-7000


also the 'ol White Linen Nights for boozin' up on the streets of the Heights!

Can You Feel It Coming From the West

A Gust of Wind, Gustave Courbet, 1865

Included in the MFAH's current Impressionist mess, The Forest at Fontainebleau; A Gust of Wind seemed so familiar to me yesterday. Then I remembered Modern Art Notes was just talking about it with Robyn O'Neil on Friday.

It sure is a monster, emotional canvass. But you already know that. That painting was Bob Ross heaven. So many palette knife strokes that fade into eye-tricking realism- Rocks! Stream! House in the distance!

The sky is seriously tilted, either pushing your head into tilting itself or leaving one with a serious sense of dread. Whether applied to the painting- with it's storm approaching quickly- or to one's eyesight- there must be something wrong- or more manifestly as applying to your life- welling, growing fear- there is no doubting Courbet's emotional register. Painted in 1865, as the Napoleonic echo was about to fail, the pugnacious pugilist thrived on change and worked through art to bring about rapture. or the Commune. or whatever as long as it happened.

Forest at the MFAH is a low tide Impressionist show, but a few early Monet's make it worth a trip- and all of y'all better see Courbet. Then watch Bob Ross and imagine he's screaming about power to the people.

This is a ridiculous tribute to Bob Ross- watch with care

ps- check out Tyler Green calling out the MFAH for Gust of Wind's inclusion in Fontainebleau. Apparently the scholarship doesn't add up, but that show needed a punch at the end, so screw the scholars.

Sam Taylor-Wood Opens Tonight

Fuck Suck Spank Wank


The Last Century, 2005


Still Life, 2001


Kyoto Girls at Rockefeller Center



Link to David, a video of David Beckham sleeping for 67 minutes




Robert Downey Jr., from Crying Men



Opening at the Contemporary Arts Museum
5216 Montrose Boulevard
6:30 - 9pm

What do you think of the fashion photog getting the whole gallery?

She hold up all those temporary walls.

Still Life is at the CAMH and the MFAH at the same time.

Two To See, I Wanted To See Them Together

Dan Kopp and Rene Cruz are both up in Houston through mid-August at CTRL and Domy, respectively. Kopp's paintings really grabbed me last month, and I wanted to juxtapose them with Cruz's Paradise/Gravedigger imagery. Enjoy!

Kopp, Chief



Cruz, Gravedigger



Kopp, Psychic Field







plus...

gratuitous shot of Knitta, Please in Austin

Lecture Tomorrow en la Manana

Dr. Franklin played a seminal role in the landmark Brown vs. the Board of Education case, marched on Washington in 1963 and in Selma with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the MFAH Lecture: Reflections on a Century of Change in African American Art and Life.

August 1st, 10 am (Donut reception held at 9 am)

Dr. John Hope Franklin
James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History
Duke University

Dr. John Hope Franklin, now 93, reigns supreme as the dean of American history. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, his definitive account of the black experience in America, first published in 1947, remains the core text in the field of African American studies with more than 3 million copies sold.

Gathering of Tribes

The Tontons Rock.

RIP Engine Room

See ya later!

Won't miss the bad acoustics!




M.I.A.


via Swamplot

Eli as Ally

Some guy from LA

"Every year there are new galleries and art spaces in Houston. We are getting bigger slowly but surely. I think Houston could be the next major art city. I think we have no where to go but up. And I want to be here to see it, and to help build it."

Nice interview with hat-wearer Eli Brumbaugh about Artstorm and their new digs in the Museum District at Caroline Collective featured on Houstonist!

groovehouse

Eli offers a quick critique on the failure of other orgs to garner excitement; "Well, ArtStorm was the first gallery that didn't ask me for a resume."

Check out a review of their "Creature Comforts" show HERE.

What started Brumbaugh on his descent into the seedy artworld? Artcrawl of course.