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 Laura Lark on September 20, 2011
Big cities with vibrant art scenes have big art fairs, right? Sure. So it stands to reason that Houston, home of lots of great art, should have one as well. In fact, Houston should have two of them. Oh, that’s right! They do! Since I didn’t really pay any attention to the scuffle concerning the [...]
Posted in Blog, I'm with stupid, Uncategorized | Tagged Armory Show, Art League, austin, bad art, Bill Davenport, Brick Tamlind, crack house, dead squirrel, distressed, Donald Sultan, drag queen, Dubuffet, fiberglass insulation, food, food art, funky, gentrified, George R. Brown Convention Center, hellhole, Houston Antique Dealers Association, houston fine art fair, inane chitchat, Insperity Golf Experience, invisibility, Kelly Klaasmeyer, Manhattan, marshall lightman, miniature golf, minimalist, Montrose, neighborhood, painful social interaction, painting, parking, Pulse Fair, Ron Burgundy, rustic, Scope Fair, slutty, soulless jerks, SUV, taco truck, Veronica Corningstone, Victoria Lightman, Volta Fair, weird |