Town and Gown: U of H and Rice Exhibitions
Houston’s universities are important incubators of artistic talent, with many artists in the city having taught at and/or graduated from either the University of Houston or Rice University. But the thing with incubators is that they can be a bit isolating, which is why it is refreshing to see both schools putting forth greater efforts [...]
Sustainable Practice: Nancy Zastudil
In many ways, Nancy Zastudil was the inspiration for this series of interviews about sustainable practices. We worked together at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston, which organized a symposium called Systems of Sustainability. In the course of planning for the event, we talked about ways that the [...]
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 blogĀ has created a fictional profile of a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]