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Blaffer Remodeling, From a Student’s View
On Wednesday, Glasstire’s Rainey Knudson and Kelly Klaasmeyer were given a hard hat tour by the dapper Matt Johns of the Blaffer Museum, and they took the intern along! Me! As a student of the University of Houston’s painting program, I was itching to look inside the museum after hearing the construction all semester. I [...]
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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 [...]
New MFA’s show at UH
The 2011 MFA Thesis show opens at the University of Houston’s Blaffer Museum tomorrow night, Friday April 23, from 6-9pm. Next week the artists will give noon talks about their slices of the show: on Tuesday at high noon, Francis Giampietro, David Graeve, and Suzanne Powney, on Wednesday noon it’s Jeremy DePrez, J. Giroux, Emily [...]
Bradford Bears inaugurate Blaffer downtown window
The Blaffer Art Museum’s new program, Window into Houston, debuts with Elaine Bradford: The Sidereal on Wednesday April 6. The project will showcase Houston artists’ projects in historic storefront windows at 110 Milam St. downtown. Bradford’s installation plays on museum dioramas, presenting fictions in the form of facts. According to Bradford, in this piece “a [...]