Houston to San Antonio
We arrived at Blue Star Thursday night to a performance of Justin Randolph Thompson’s Tossin’ the Rag as part of his exhibition Meet Me in the Bottoms. A rag doll was being thrown in the air from a blanket while the artist performed with a group of collaborators. They were accompanied by a small band facing [...]
Blaffer Blastoff Reports on the New Museum Renovation with Spoof
The latest post in Blaffer Blastoff, the Museum-on-hold’s renovation blog, designed to fill the dead air in their many social media outlets, is a comedy sketch. Rather than provide information on the (interesting, but possibly sensitive) real internal workings of their massive project, the Blaffer Art Museum’s blog has created a fictional profile of a [...]
Blaffer renovation images
The Blaffer museum at the University of Houston has unveiled images of its planned renovation by WORK architects. With a funnel-like entrance wedge, big “storefront” windows, and a space-hogging two story atrium, the proposed building has a lot of flash, but adds only 500sf of gallery space. In the press release, Blaffer director and chief [...]