By Rachel Hooper on September 15, 2012
I have to admit that art fairs, in general, are not my thing. They seem exhausting for everyone involved from visitors to the gallery girls working the booths. With 80 participating galleries in this year’s Houston Fine Art Fair, my eyes were glazed over after about an hour at Reliant Center, and I had a [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged Barbara Davis Gallery, brad bucher, carlos cruz diaz, daniel mcfarlane, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Geoff Hippenstiel, Hollis Taggart Galleries, houston fine art fair, joe havel, Julie Mehretu, kara walker, leslie hewitt, Man Ray, mfah, Robyn O’Neil, schroeder romero & shredder, shazia sikander, talley dunn gallery, The Art Guys, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Victoria Lightman, Willem De Kooning |
By Bill Davenport on August 31, 2012
Houston Arts Alliance is fixing to hire globe-trotting Australian public artist Konstantin Dimopoulos to install a version of his popular “Blue Trees” in Houston. The current proposal is to plant saplings painted with harmless, wahsable dye in memorial for trees lost in last years drought. Culturemap’s Shelby Hodge reported on a reception in Dimopoulos’ honor [...]
Posted in Newswire | Tagged blue trees, brad bucher, houston arts alliance, Jonathan Glus, konstantin dimoupolis, scott and judy nyquist, shelby hodge |