Killing Bats with Bats down at TSU

WTF? A reported by the Chron HERE...

"One student, Jason Smith, 19, said he killed dozens of bats with a tennis racket at the dorm but was not bitten. 'Nobody got bit — not to my knowledge,' Smith said."

and there are videos of TSU students bashing bats with the Astros' flycatchers of choice!

TSU has bats all over the second and third floor. I mean this is crazy fa real bro...i hope we gettin refund checks for all this...

Notsuoh

So Jim Pirtle was accompanied by neither his 'Perry Homo' character or his 'Perry Homo Dancers', but he sure did put on a tight denim suit and karaoke to a couple of songs. After the first one he started to remove himself from his suit with claw hammers, stripping to reveal... even tighter pants!

Travis Kerschen's Luz is a really enveloping film for being only twelve minutes long. His confessional protagonist, caught in headshot portrait, speaks about her love and loves- while her closely framed image is assaulted by cutshots of violent arguments, playful banter and rooftop social scenes.

Tomorrow night is an opening down at 314 Main for Shawna Mouser, who is so popular, she has her own fan club.

Two New Gustons

Philip Guston, Connection, 1979

Philip Guston, Step, 1979

The MFAH kissed ass hardcore for them!
jacked from Frank!

Crazy 'Ol Jim Pirtle

Notsuoh = houstoN
photo by Andy Walker

"Jim Pirtle is unleashing a new performance personna...Perry Homo...a bit of Perry Como mixed with Perry Homes- the real estate company-crooning about having the american dream from the $300,000's backed up by the Perry Homo Dancers and Designers TODAY: 10 pm mon sept 17 at Notsuoh [314 main] in downtown houston where real estate values are in a free fall"

Buffalo Bayou Art Park- Call For Proposals

BBAP announces a call for proposals:
Buffalo Bayou Trail Show.
Deadline: October 7, 2007

The Buffalo Bayou Trail Show is a juried installation exhibit along the trails of Buffalo Bayou. Artists are encouraged to research and find specific spots within the park suited to their project ideas. Projects will be installed for two weeks and must be properly secured and must withstand the weather for the duration of the exhibition. Maps will be produced to guide visitors to the various project sites.

Please submit the following:
-A written proposal outlining project specifics. (A budget would be helpful, but is not required.)
-Sketches for project.
-CV.

Submissions may be emailed to:
bbap@bbap-houston.org

Submissions may also be mailed to:
Buffalo Bayou Art Park
PO Box 70260
Houston, Texas 77270-0260

All submissions must be received by October 7, 2007.

For more information regarding the Buffalo Bayou Trail Show, email: bbap@bbap-houston.org

For more information regarding BBAP, please visit our website at:
http://www.bbap-houston.org/

Thank you and happy trails!

Wha'dya Think?

One day left to throw your opinion up! Who's the baddest art space on the Menil's block? Click HERE to find out who won!

Maggie, Maggie... Why You Gotta Be A Hater?

Maggie Battaliano, the new head of Commerce Street Artists Warehouse since the Community Bylaws were thrown out by the city of Houston, is getting a little nervous about how she treated former resident Skeez 181. With an impending Houston Press feature by Troy Schulze in the works she should be. After throwing the artist out of his own Chinhui Ome event in August along with everyone else in the building, Battaliano went on to remove Skeez from the building during last week's COLOR1 show and had a tense moment again when the artist and Aztec dancer Javier popped over to the old warehouse from their new digs down on Telephone to do a photo-op for the Press. Can't wait to see what Troy's got to say!

A Rose is Rrose...

Oh la la... pull out the red carpet for former MoMA curator and PaceWildenstein director of drawings Bernice Berend Rose! After filtering through national press for the past week the Chron has announced that the Houston - New York commuter is now the director of the imaginary Drawings Institute of the Menil Collection (although I bet she gets a real office). Expect an examination of the Menil's massive collection demonstrating Rose's flair for organization and curatorial style, just like Franklin Sirmin's photo show when the intrepid curator joined the organization. February will bring The Poetry of Process: A Celebration of Drawing; oh, and a Richard Serra drawing show in the works too.

Chron article HERE... Everett Evans needs to learn how to spell Jackson Pollock...

New Ad!

New ad from soso Design! It'll be in the Houston Free Press and HATER magazine for September!

Drop Your Gun?

With all the art on the walls at the Menil's new Otabenga show, you might miss their greatest intervention- a pretty real looking gun dropped behind the pedestal holding a bronze bust of Paul Robeson.

Houston Area Show- Call For Artists

OPEN CALL FOR HOUSTON ARTISTS

Blaffer Gallery is now accepting submissions for the 2008 HOUSTON AREA EXHIBITION on view May 9-August 2, 2008. The exhibition is organized by Claudia Schmuckli, Curator, Blaffer Gallery, and will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue.

Artists over the age of 18 living within a 100-mile radius of Houston are invited to submit recent works that have not been previously exhibited in the Houston area. All media will be considered.

Please send a resume and up to twenty slides in a slide sheet or images on CD-Rom or DVD for consideration. Include a phone number and e-mail address on your resume. VHS tapes will not be accepted. Images must be labeled with artist's name, title, year of work, media, dimensions, and orientation.

Submissions should be addressed to Claudia Schmuckli, Curator, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, 120 Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX 77204-4018. Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like your application materials returned. E-mail submissions are accepted at cschmuckli@uh.edu.

There is no entry fee.

The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2007.

The 2008 Houston Area Exhibition is the tenth in a series of juried exhibitions hosted by Blaffer Gallery since 1974. Held every four years, the exhibition reflects the museum's commitment to showcasing the work of talented local artists. The exhibition is a unique opportunity, providing equal access for all artists in the Houston metropolitan area – established, emerging, and unknown – to have their work presented together in a museum setting.

Screwy

Looks like U of H is now selling their student email list to more than just loan providers, judging by this gem of a job offer:

Hello XXX,

If you are looking for a job to do during the following semester,
perhaps you will be interested in what we are offering this year. The job in
question takes little time and requires no special qualifications.

Did you know that there are companies, so concerned with the quality of
their services that they are willing to pay young, attentive people to
do field testing and bring back reports on how services and products
can be improved? Your job would be visiting banks, restaurants, movie
theatres, shops, grocery stores, etc. as a real customer with the slight
difference that afterwards you have to write an evaluation report and
send it back to the company that has hired you.

If you are interested and you would like to receive more information,
simply reply to this message. Thank you.

Zachary Harlan

What company do you send the report to? Hmmm.....