Watch ‘em all: Rice Gallery Videos Now Available on ArtBabble
You can’t beat video for documenting temporary installation art, so it’s a good thing that Rice University Art Gallery is now a partner of ArtBabble, the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s video hosting website. 17 videos of Rice Gallery artist interviews, footage of installations in progress, time lapse videos, and documentation of gallery events from the [...]
New Rice U Art Building in the Works; Maltzan Working on Pre-Design
Rice University has taken concrete steps towards building a new, $30 million art building on its Houston campus. Architect Michael Maltzan of Los Angeles is under contract for a pre-design of the new facility, which, according to Visual and Dramatic Arts Department Chair John Sparagana will likely bring the Rice University Art Gallery, the department’s [...]
Fair Thee Well
The second whoppin’ big art fair has come to a close, and oh! I have so much to say that I doubt, what with today’s average attention span, any one will even make it to the end! As loyal readers know, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair was not my first rodeo. But it was the [...]
Rice Gallery Announces Steve Keene Encore Performance at TX Contemporary Fair
Rice University Art Gallery has announced a special art fair encore performance by human painting machine Steve Keene, whose 1998 performance/installation Fresh Art Daily at Rice caused lines to form outside the gallery as Keene relentlessly painted hundreds of objects, selling them of for bargain prices as fast as (sometimes faster than!) the paint dried. [...]