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Entries from Austinist tagged with 'museumoffinearts'

September 20, 2007

You bring up the idea of “art”, and you’re definitely begging for some heated shit talking. Opinions are the first to fly, then potentially followed by epithets, then perhaps some brass knuckles. All metaphoric in form, of course. Why must these disagreements come to pass? Notorious MSG comes to mind. It could be said that this is exactly what art and artists, as functional cogs in the machines of social industry, are supposed to......

Continue Reading "MFAH: Houston Parties With Art, Too"

March 30, 2007

FRIDAY [30] music • The Skeletons at South Austin Speedshop (7pm) fashion/music • Couture de Amore with fashions by Loves, Mariessa; Stiletto Gold; Sea and Enemies; Amy Kline (Jewelry), and Clap!Clap!, Golden Bear, Haunting Oboe Music, The Valentines at The Parish Room ($10) music • Video/CD release for "The Projeckt" at Latitude 30 music • Bluebonnet Blues Festival, benefitting Historic Main Street Association of Marble Falls, at Marble Falls music • 3rd Annual Global......

Continue Reading "The Weekend IST List"

February 21, 2007

This Saturday at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, there will be badass doin’s a-transpirin'. We have various Blanton parties. We had the whole Radical NY! at the AMOA (which the writer who posted on it completely ruined by misspelling the names of extremely popular artists, and just appearing to be a twat of an art icon ignoramus in general), and if you attend(ed) these events, you’ve likely felt the energy surrounding the concept:......

Continue Reading "Ceeplus and the House of Art in Houston"

July 20, 2006

Now being displayed at Women & Their Work, Candace M. Briceño's latest exhibition, Nevermore, is a series of wall-mounted, hand-sewn felt sculptures, drawings on paper rendered with needle pricks, and paintings. The multi-colored works are linked by their common flora theme of flora -- things like discarded banana peels, pom-pom flower tops, and mushrooms -- and, according to Houston Museum of Fine Arts critic-in-residence Jeff M. Ward, denote a "sense of loss"; the "project of......

Continue Reading "Swap Your Hibiscus for a Stunning Bromeliad at Women & Their Work Tonight"

February 1, 2006

We’re all about good DJs. Especially when they get together to wreck some shit. Prince Klassen (of Diggin’ Deep Quartet notoriety) and his MODERN KICKS are doing something a little different at Whisky Bar this Saturday night. He’s bringing in Ceeplus from Reprogram Music, who has been roughing up the tables for the Beats of Basquiat Series at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In addition to Ceeplus, New Berlin from Teleportdoor will......

Continue Reading "Modern Kicks - Klassen. Ceeplus, New Berlin: This Saturday"

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