‘Twas the Month Before Christmas . . .
Second only to Halloween as an art-saturated holiday, the end of each year is an orgy of group gift shows, holiday decorating events, and year-end pleas from nonprofits happy to help tax-dodging donors. Here’s an incomplete roundup of upcoming seasonal happenings around the state:. I’ll be updating as we check off the last few weeks [...]
Orange Show Announces Mother of All Garage Sales Saturday Sept 29
Houston’s famed folk art envoronment has a famed warehouse, full of stuff that they’ve been storing for many years, including building materials, warehouse equpment, tools, scrap metal, potential art supplies, gee gaws and incredible odds and ends. On Saturday, September 29 from 9am- 2pm they’re opening the doors to diggers, hoping to cleaning out the [...]
Orange Show Unveils Dedicated Art Car Parade Website
What better use for some of that Houston Art Alliance hotel tax money than to promote one of the city’s only real claims to fame, the Houston Art Car Parade? Well, The Orange Show foundation’s got a new website devoted to the spectacle and splendor of Houston Art Car Parades, past and present. In addition [...]
Easter Orange Hunt Saturday
Houston’s Orange Show opens it’s 2012 season with the traditional Easter Orange Hunt on Saturday, March 31. Bring your kids to scour Jeff McKissack’s folk art creation for goodies, followed by a ceremonial blessing performance by Danza Azteca Teokalli de Houston. 10 a.m. at the Orange Show, 2402 Munger St.
Art Car Apostle Rebecca Bass Spreads the Word to Chattanooga: Parade Set for April 2012
Houston art car apostle Rebecca Bass is in Chattanooga, Tennessee this weekend, leading a workshop for educators, artists and the curious as they transform a 1974 Toyota Chinook Camper into the city’s first official art car. Her visit is sponsored by Art 120, a Chattanooga nonprofit that is organizing the city’s first Art Car Weekend [...]
Texas Art Travel: Houston
Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of fine art galleries to visit. The Museum of Fine Arts was a long way from becoming one of the largest museums in the United States. And the Contemporary Arts Museum [...]
Art Car Weekend rolls into Houston
One of Houston’s few legitimate claims to fame, the Art Car Parade, rolls down Allen Parkway from Waugh Drive to Bagby St. this Sunday, May 22, from 1-3pm, although the lineup, and the crowds begin at 9am. The Hoopla begins even earlier: tonight it’s the Art Car Ball at the Orange Show; Saturday night there’s [...]
The Owl and the Orange Show
You know it’s the first day of Summer when Houston’s Orange Show holds it annual Easter Orange Hunt and Season opening party. That’s this Saturday, April 23, from 10-1. Kids and other greedy scavengers can run wild through every nook and cranny of Jeff McKissack’s folk art monument for hidden eggs, treats, and oranges (BYOB, [...]