Photofest Down Unduh

"Booker-Lowe Gallery is pleased to be a participant in Fotofest 2008, the Twelfth International Biennial of Photography and Photo Related Art. We will be featuring Australian Peter Eve’s stunning images of the people and landscapes of the Kimberley. Artists Rusty Peters, Paddy Bedford and Peggy Patrick are among Eve’s subjects, photographed in environments that tell us about their lives in the past, working on pastoral stations, and today as contemporary artists. Eve’s landscapes evoke their spiritual significance to Aboriginal people."


Open House
“Beyond the Frontier: Photographs by
Australian Peter Eve”
11 am - 5 pmSaturday, March 8th
Booker-Lowe Gallery4623 Feagan Street
Houston 77007

I already personally find this spectacularly boring. What do photographers do now? Enough with the Third World and the Landscape imagery. Is the only thing left to manipulate with photoshop? And we all know how pathetic that can come across to.

Lawndale Needs Your Help (Volunteer!)

Friday, March 7th

5:30 - 8:30pm


'Lawndale Art Center hosts an opening reception and artist talks for new exhibiting artists Hana Hillerova, Chuy Benitez, Adam Schreiber and William Stewart. We are looking for fun friends to help us pour drinks and chat up the crowd about Lawndale."



Thursday, March 13th

8:30 - 11:30pm

"FotoFest2008 hosts a private BBQ for this year's curators in Lawndale Art Center's Mary E. Bawden Sculpture Garden. We will be opening our galleries for our guests to view during the event. We need gallery monitors and Lawndale enthusiasts to help us through the night and have a little bbq. "

(please note: this event is not a public opening. this is a call for volunteers only.)


If you're interested in helping out contact:

Mat Wolff
Volunteer Coordinator
Lawndale Art Center
mwolff@lawndaleartcenter.org
713.528.5858

This Weekend at MFAH Films

March 7 — 9, 2008

CAMH Teen Council Presents

Sleeper
Directed by Woody Allen
(USA, 1973, 88 minutes)

Friday, 7:00 p.m.

"Woody Allen plays Miles Monroe, cryogenically frozen in 1973 (he went into the hospital for an ulcer operation) and unthawed 200 years later. Society has become a sterile, Big Brother-controlled dystopia, and Miles joins the underground resistance—joined by a pampered rich woman (Diane Keaton at her bubbliest)."
— www.amazon.com

Darkon
Directed by Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel
(USA, 2006, 93 minutes)

Friday, 9:00 p.m.

"Darkon is a role-playing game that gathers some 2,000 active members in Baltimore, often in a soccer field, for medieval battles. Dressed in homemade armor and costumes and brandishing foam-padded weapons, gamers join one of the warring countries. And while these fights are simulated, it´s still a full-contact game, so the weak of heart and brittle of bone should . . . well . . . watch their [backs]." —Film Threat magazine

FotoFest 2008:
Pan-Chinese Cinema Now

Exiled (Fong juk)
Directed by Johnnie To
(Hong Kong, 2006, 110 minutes, subtitled)

Saturday, 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, 7:00 p.m.
Recommended for adult audiences only.

"Johnnie To is such a steady practitioner of the Asian gangster genre that the ease with which he tosses off the pitch-perfect Exiled serves to disguise the superb craftsmanship and intelligence of its design. Make no mistake, though; this is an accomplished suspense-action piece that touches on universal themes of brotherhood, exile, love, and honor."
—Hollywood Reporter


www.mfah.org

High on Mount Sinai

"High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.

Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080304120710.ad7gm7i6&show_article=1

This Friday at DiverseWorks

Kurt Stallmann & Alfred Guzzetti's Breaking Earth
Zoe Crosher's 1 YR. Later
March 7 - April 26, 2008

Opening Reception:
Friday, March 7, 2008
6 to 8pm

"Composing with a palette of images, spaces, and sounds, collaborators Alfred Guzzetti and Kurt Stallmann transform the DiverseWorks Gallery into an immersive atmosphere of light and sound. "


Zoe Crosher: 1 YR. Later
"To create telling and insightful portraits for a nationwide project entitled 1 YR Later, L.A - based photographer Zoe Crosher trained her lens on young women in the small towns and big cities of America, photographing them in their rooms to capture the pivotal period of growth and transformation in the year spanning high school graduation and the first year of college."

DiverseWorks

1117 East Freeway

Houston, TX 77002

713.223.8346

www.diverseworks.org

MSN MONEY on ART

"As the art market continues its four-year bull run, prices for many artists appear to defy gravity. Nowhere has this trend been as evident as at last year's Art Basel Miami Beach, an art show where crowds from around the world defied gloomy reports about the economy and bought art priced in the millions"

"As its economy booms, contemporary Chinese artists are high on the collector's lists of must-have work, and prices for many of them are soaring. At the October auctions in London, for example, a painting by Chinese artist Yue Minjun sold at Sotheby's for $5.9 million -- the highest price ever paid for a contemporary Chinese work."


More:http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/StockInvestingTrading/HotorHype.aspx

Acconci at the MFAH

Via www.camh.org:

Wednesday, March 05, 7:00 p.m.
Design Life Now Lecture Series
Vito Acconci, internationally renowned artist and architect, kicks off the Design Life Now Lecture Series with a free talk at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Brown Auditorium, cosponsored by the MFAH and the Rice Design Alliance.

Visit this really fun website: http://www.acconci.com/

South Texas Represent

Reads: Hello!


Please join us this Artwalk in welcoming Oscar Alvarez to Manichaus!


Reception will be from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. with an artist talk at 8 p.m.


Don't miss out on this great opportunity to learn more about this up-and-coming artist and experience his new body of work.

Thank you for supporting the Arts!


Manichaus,
1301-B North Main Street,
McAllen, Texas
956.207.0940
http://myspace.com/manichaus
http://www.blackrabbitworks.com/manichaus

UPDATE:

Check out this website: http://alphadilettante.com/

New Park

"Discovery Green, Houston’s new downtown park, is being developed on an 11.78-acre site between the George R. Brown Convention Center and the heart of downtown Houston. The park is the culmination of the dreams of many Houstonians for a major urban park that is being realized as a result of the leadership of Mayor White and some of Houston’s most committed and generous citizens. The park is ideally positioned to be the heart of Houston’s most desirable urban, mixed-use residential district."

MORE: http://www.discoverygreen.com/

Super Tag Tuesday

Politics on this Houston ART Blog can be a difficult thing to take. However, it would be stupid of me not to recognize the fact that the world is watching Texas, waiting to see what happens to the Democractic Candidates on Super Tuesday part deux . I intend on making politics and art mix. Watch me now:

Tagging/ graffiti... I need some help in understanding the purpose of it. I know it's sort of a big deal in Houston, and recently the local government became more intent on "cleaning" it up (if I remember correctly). To me tagging is inherently an antiestablishment art form. I'm sure there are a few who just do it because it's fun or they like the medium of neighborhood walls, but I think they are few. Mostly I think we have artists purposely drawing, spray painting, etc. where they shouldn't be. The city cleans them up, creating Modern Art to some, and the taggers take it back again.

Now when I see things like this on Alabama St. (across from the Breakfast Club)



I cannot help but think to myself, what a perfect example of what should be tagged or something to that effect. What a perfect example of the pOwErr strRuctuRres. But do I see anything? Nope, just a bunch of old run down houses. Sure, it'd be easy if it were Richard Cheney, but that's really safe. I just wonder... it's not as though tagging was A-OK when Pres. Clinton was in office, so it can't be a party affiliation thing, can it. Do taggers carry cards?

This is just a thought. Does anyone want to fill me in on what I am missing?

UPDATE (thanks Jeanne):



So, this was designed by Shepard Fairey of OBEY fame:



I suppose we just substitute HOPE for OBEY here.

Updates via The Houston Chronicle:

"On the eve of Texas' crucial Democratic primary, Obama led Clinton among likely Democratic voters, 47.2 percent to 43.8 percent, according to Sunday's tracking poll, conducted for the Houston Chronicle, Reuters and C-SPAN by Zogby International. Six percent of voters remained undecided."

Read more Here: HOUSTON CHRON ONLINE

More Blaffer Blah-blah

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



David L. Vollmer Joins Blaffer Gallery as Deputy Director

Vollmer, Claudia Schmuckli Appointed as Interim Leadership Team




HOUSTON, Texas (Feb. 21, 2008) - Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, is pleased to announce that David L. Vollmer has joined the Blaffer staff as deputy director.

Vollmer, who last served as the director of the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, Ind. from July 2001 to January 2008, has substantial experience that will play a key role as the museum moves forward with its long-term goals. As director of the Swope, Vollmer supervised the activity within an organization similar in size to Blaffer. Most notably, he oversaw the completion of a major facilities renovation. In his new post, Vollmer will oversee finance and administration and will work closely with the advisory board on strategic long-range planning.

Beginning April 1, Vollmer will assume the position of acting director of Blaffer Gallery. That vacancy results from the departure of Terrie Sultan, who leaves the museum at the end of March to become director of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y. As acting director, Vollmer will lead the museum during this important transitional phase. Claudia Schmuckli, curator, will move into the role of acting chief curator to oversee the museum's ambitious exhibition and publication schedule. In the meantime, a search committee headed by Blaffer Advisory Board emeritus Shirley Rose, Board Chair Russell Sherrill and College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Dean John Antel will conduct a national search for a new artistic and administrative director.

"Terrie is leaving the museum in competent hands with David at the helm while we search for the future director," said Sherrill. "Today, Blaffer Gallery is at the best in its 35-year history, and its contributions to the arts and our community only will increase in the coming years."

About Blaffer Gallery:
Founded in 1973, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, was named in honor of the late Sarah Campbell Blaffer, a noted Houston arts patron and collector. Since its inception, the museum has been a vital force in the presentation and promotion of contemporary visual arts in Houston. Blaffer Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building on the University of Houston's central campus, entrance 16 off Cullen Boulevard. It is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Sundays, Mondays and University holidays. The museum is ADA compliant. For general inquiries, please call 713.743.9530, or visit the museum online at www.blaffergallery.org.

Media Contact:
For more information on this story, please contact Jeffrey Bowen, assistant director of external affairs, at 713.743.9528, or via e-mail at jbowen2@uh.edu.


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Alot of people are asking, will the next Director actually care about the School of Art and its students? Does anyone else here have anything to say about this criticism of outgoing Terrie Sultan? Is it fair or unfair?

This Week in Houston

Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - March 2nd
"Pompeii tells the stories of the people and cities at the Bay of Naples who perished in the devastation wrought by the cataclysmic explosion of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Bronze and marble sculptures, large-scale frescoes, jewelry, tools, table silver, gladiatorial armor, coins, and even skeletons reveal aspects of their lives and deaths. Nearly 500 objects are on view that are over 1,700 years old, and Houston is the last stop on the international tour before the works return to Italy." Does this tour have the potential of reintroducing the world to the ancients, the way it did during the 18th C. Should we prepare to rewelcome a neo-neo-post-new-wave classicism? :P



DECKING THE PATH TO BLESSEDNESS - March 1 - May2nd
Austin Artist Barry Stone Creates a Photo Installation for BBAP
"Buffalo Bayou ArtPark (BBAP) is pleased to present, in conjunction with FOTOFEST 2008, Barry Stoneʼs large scale photo installation Decking the Path to Blessedness. The work will be on view at the Sabine Street ArtPark, just west of the Sabine Street Bridge, 100 Sabine Street, from March 1- May 2, 2008. There will be a picnic reception with the artist on March 8, 2008, from 3 to 5 pm." For more visit www.barrystone.com

Three exhibitions of contemporary photo-based work from China
Opening Receptions on Saturday, March 8, 2008, 6-8 PM
"Art League Houston is pleased to partner with FOTOFEST 2008 and its Twelfth International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Art in presenting three separate exhibitions of works by Chinese-based artists, Sun Guojuan, Chen Lingyang and Liu Lijie, March 8 - April 19, 2008. The opening reception for Sun Guojuan: Sweetness Forever, Chen Lingyang: Twelve Flower Months and Liu Lijie: Another Episode will be at Art League Houston on Saturday, March 8, 2008, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m." Is anyone tired of the Asian-Art-In-Houston-Explosion-Thing?

Opening and Reception for Transformational Light,
new works by Christopher Talbot
Opening reception is March 8th, 7 – 9 pm, with the show running through April 12th.
"Talbot's new body of work explores the transformation between day and night. The narrative suggested in each scene takes place under the subdued light of evening, while exploring the stereotypes of rural life. The color and beauty of light experienced as night approaches is an important part of the work. Multiple artificial light sources are added to each scene to build a contrast to the color of ambient light, and to add to the theatrical nature of the photographs." For more info, visit www.gallery1724.com




Lawndale Art Center - March 7 – April 12, 2008
In conjunction with FOTOFEST2008
Opening Reception Friday March 7, 2008, 6:30-8:30 PM
Artist talks at 6:00 PM
Artists influde: Hana Hillerova , Chuy Benitez , Adam Schreiber , William Stewart , Lynne McCabe. Visit: http://www.lawndaleartcenter.org/



Core at 25: Milestone Anniversary for the Artists’ and Critics’ Residency Program at MFAH Glassell School - 2008 Core Artists in Residence Exhibiton
March 7 through April 18, 2008
Core Artists: Mequitta Ahuja
William Cordova
Kara Hearn
Andres Janacua
Lauren Kelley
Nicholas Kersulis
Sergio Torres-Torres
Jeff Williams

The Glassell School of Art is located at 5101 Montrose Boulevard, and is open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Everythings Cool - Aurora Picture Show
Saturday, March 8, 8pm
Sunday, March 9, 3pm
"A documentary about global warming in the wake of the chasm between scientific understanding and political action in the U.S. Come help discuss and create the political will and social movement to move toward a clean energy economy."
Does anyone else remember when Al Gore used to look like Superman? Now he's more like Lex Luthor, if he'd just lose the hair.


APERTURA-COLOMBIA
March 8 - May 18, 2008
Station Museum of Contemporary Art
"The works of art in this exhibition go beyond simple reportage or exposé. They document the events and emotional turmoil caused by terror, exclusion and loss. They demonstrate the artist’s ability to come to grips with the violent modern history of Colombia and transform this history into a positive source of truth and regeneration."

Did I miss anything? Post the info as a comment.