BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//East End Houston - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://eastendhouston.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for East End Houston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240412T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240531T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240522T225118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T190629Z UID:219144-1712914200-1717167600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:ART EXHIBIT “ABSTRACT REALITIES” DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Center “Our Texas” is pleased to announce the grand opening of its exclusive art exhibition\, “Abstract Realities\,” featuring the remarkable talents of Irene Sheytman and Saida Fagala. Set to commence on April 12th at 7:30 pm\, this highly anticipated event will serve as a tribute to the distinctive artistic prowess of these two individuals\, both of whom hail from Baku\, Azerbaijan\, and now proudly call Houston their home.\nRenowned for her profound passion for urban landscapes\, Irene Sheytman has devoted her artistic journey to capturing the essence of city life. Utilizing mediums such as silk and watercolor\, Sheytman skillfully articulates the dynamic intricacies of urban environments\, infusing her work with vibrant hues and meticulous details. Her latest collection of watercolors\, inspired by her travels in Italy\, promises to transport viewers to the timeless charm of old European cities\, weaving narratives of historical architecture\, iconic landmarks\, and the streets of ancient towns.\nComplementing Sheytman’s vision\, Saida Fagala brings a unique perspective to the exhibition\, rooted in her familial heritage steeped in artistic talent. Fagala’s artistic journey has cultivated a distinctive style that intricately intertwines mood and color across various mediums\, including ceramics\, pottery\, watercolor\, and ink. The exhibition will feature Fagala’s captivating ceramic portraits\, showcasing her adept manipulation of form and color\, and inviting viewers into her world of creativity and innovation. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/art-exhibit-abstract-realities-2/ LOCATION:Russian Cultural Center “Our Texas”\, 2337 Bissonnet St\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/art-exibit-wyle0R.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Cultural Center 'Our Texas'":MAILTO:Russianculturalcenter@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240517T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240521T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240517T003714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T215158Z UID:218791-1715940000-1716310800@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:IVO MORRISON | THE INTRODUCTION DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Opening Reception on May 16\, 6-9pm\nExhibition on through May 17-21\nBlue is the colour of dreams. Orange\, red and white are the colours of summertime. In ‘The Introduction’\, Ivo Morrison tells you a story about the memory of summer. But it’s not about his summers. It’s about yours. And how you remember them. And how the memory of them keeps you warm when it’s cold and dark.\nIvo Morrison\, born 1990\, is a self-taught British artist currently based in London. His work is hand drawn with shellac ink on paper. His primary ambition is to tell stories in his pictures; his work is exciting\, silly\, and a bit mysterious.\nHe has exhibited at multiple British galleries\, including with Rebecca Hossack and the British Art Portfolio\, as well as internationally\, most notably at Art Basel Miami Beach\, Art on Paper in New York\, Ink Asia in Hong Kong\, and the International Art Festival of São Paolo\, among others. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/ivo-morrison-the-introduction-2/ LOCATION:Reeves Art + Design\, 2415 Taft St\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/this-is-an-awesome-houston-cultural-event-gMeAZ5.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Reeves Art + Design":MAILTO:midtownmodern@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240518T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240522T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240518T005155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240522T215154Z UID:218870-1716026400-1716397200@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:IVO MORRISON | THE INTRODUCTION DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Opening Reception on May 16\, 6-9pm\nExhibition on through May 17-21\nBlue is the colour of dreams. Orange\, red and white are the colours of summertime. In ‘The Introduction’\, Ivo Morrison tells you a story about the memory of summer. But it’s not about his summers. It’s about yours. And how you remember them. And how the memory of them keeps you warm when it’s cold and dark.\nIvo Morrison\, born 1990\, is a self-taught British artist currently based in London. His work is hand drawn with shellac ink on paper. His primary ambition is to tell stories in his pictures; his work is exciting\, silly\, and a bit mysterious.\nHe has exhibited at multiple British galleries\, including with Rebecca Hossack and the British Art Portfolio\, as well as internationally\, most notably at Art Basel Miami Beach\, Art on Paper in New York\, Ink Asia in Hong Kong\, and the International Art Festival of São Paolo\, among others. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/ivo-morrison-the-introduction-3/ LOCATION:Reeves Art + Design\, 2415 Taft St\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/this-is-an-awesome-houston-cultural-event-gMeAZ5.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Reeves Art + Design":MAILTO:midtownmodern@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240518T230725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T210658Z UID:218947-1716109200-1716138000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:What Is A Ward? DESCRIPTION:What defines a Ward\, or in a more modern sense of the word\, a neighborhood? Sabine Street Studios is located in Houston’s historic First Ward\, meaning the first developed in Houston. As artists and creatives we all come from different backgrounds and heritages\, as does our practice. But this practice has a shared sense of personal belonging\, of representing us and ourselves. Can a neighborhood have an identity when it is made up of diverse peoples and backgrounds? Or is it just a geographic definition\, delineated by streets and bayous?\nFor this tenant exhibition\, artists were asked: “How does your Ward fit within your studio practice? Is the idea of “home” something which inspires you creatively\, or a place of rest and comfort?” The exhibition is on view in the South Gallery through July 14. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/what-is-a-ward-3/ LOCATION:Sabine Street Studios\, 1907 Sabine Street Studios\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sabine-ward_jpg-NOxIfl.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Sawyer Yards Houston":MAILTO:events@sawyeryards.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T100000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240518T230725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T140646Z UID:218948-1716112800-1716112800@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:'Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette' DESCRIPTION:Asia Society Texas is pleased to present Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette\, the organization’s first public art installation. This collaboration between Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech and Vietnamese American artist Tomas Vu assumes the form of a dynamic outdoor pavilion with two stages\, occupying AST’s 13\,000-square-foot lot at the intersection of Oakdale and Caroline Streets in the heart of Houston’s Museum District. Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette is commissioned in partnership with the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.\nDescribed by the artists as a form of “urban acupuncture\,” Heat Silhouette is a physical structure designed to welcome the spontaneous circulation of people\, energy\, and events. The outdoor pavilion takes cues from college campuses\, popular culture\, and experimental magazines. Made of wood\, aluminum framing\, and laser-cut construction mesh — the very materials used to build the city of Houston — the pavilion becomes an extension of the museum and a public programming space. The title itself references the most omnipresent weather condition of Houston the summer’s intense heat\, a heat so palpable that it feels as if it occupies actual space\, creating a silhouette or edge.\nFor the artists\, the pavilion resists merely being a form of architecture. Instead\, the pavilion physically operates as an experimental magazine\, referencing the graphic processes seen in radical publications from the 1960s and 1970s like Kontexts\, an important catalyst of avant-garde poetry. Readers do not flip Heat Silhouette’s pages; instead\, they become viewers that are invited to walk in\, around\, and through the publication. Laser-cut texts appropriated from popular science-fiction films\, poetry\, and other sources intermingle to form multiple layers and viewpoints that shift with the sunlight. Heat Silhouette is a space of active production filled with theater-like compartments — a site where text\, image\, and pattern coalesce into a kind of urban camouflage. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-62/ LOCATION:Asia Society Texas Center\, 1370 Southmore Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/event-featured-rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-1697751613-ZVcLnx.tmp_-Tp18AU.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Asia Society Texas Center":MAILTO:txcenter@asiasociety.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T160000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240518T230725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T200703Z UID:218949-1716112800-1716134400@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:"Resilience Rising: Navigating Earth’s Challenges" DESCRIPTION:“Resilience Rising: Navigating Earth’s Challenges” is a thought-provoking art exhibition that delves into the urgent need for awareness and preparedness in the face of environmental risks. Through various artistic mediums\, the project confronts issues such as the climate crisis\, flooding\, food deserts\, hurricanes and tropical storms\, environmental justice\, and electricity disruption. The exhibition aims to spark a dialogue on the profound impact of these challenges on our planet and communities\, while also highlighting the resilience and collective efforts required to overcome them. By immersing visitors in immersive installations\, visual artworks\, and interactive experiences\, this project shapes sustainable and resilient future. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/resilience-rising-navigating-earths-challenges-53/ LOCATION:Julia Hester Community Center\, 2020 Solo Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77020\, United States CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/screenshot_20240305_231505_gallery-Crg6vj.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Julia Hester Community Center":MAILTO:media@jcmatthewm112.sg-host.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240518T230726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T210658Z UID:218950-1716112800-1716138000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Xu Bing: Word Alchemy DESCRIPTION:‘Xu Bing: Word Alchemy’ assembles more than 50 of Xu Bing’s most important woodcut prints\, videos\, drawings\, installations\, and other ephemera representing almost 50 years of the artist’s creative output. Starting with Xu’s early engagements with social realism and Western art historical traditions alike\, the exhibition charts the evolution of the artist’s linguistic experiments which challenge and expand not only the history of Chinese landscape painting\, but the canons of contemporary art.\nBorn in China and now working in both Brooklyn and Beijing\, artist Xu Bing (b. 1955) is widely considered to be one of the most important artists to emerge from China in the 20th century. Focusing on the artist’s longstanding engagement with words and language\, ‘Word Alchemy’ is the most comprehensive exhibition on this theme so far\, and around one-third of the objects in the exhibition are being shown in the U.S. for the first time.\nHighlights of the exhibition include Xu Bing’s early works\, his private never-before-seen notebook\, landmark prints including the Series of Repetitions handscroll\, a new Background Story with a connection to Zhao Mengfu’s famous ‘Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains’ handscroll\, a new Texas-themed ‘Square Word Calligraphy\,’ and a new installation of ‘Monkeys Grasp for the Moon’ in Asia Society Texas’ Fayez Sarofim Grand Hall.\nOn the occasion of the exhibition\, Asia Society Texas will publish a full-color exhibition catalogue and host a symposium on Xu Bing’s art on February 23\, 2024. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/xu-bing-word-alchemy-43/ LOCATION:Asia Society Texas Center\, 1370 Southmore Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/01_magic-carpet-T5impc.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Asia Society Texas Center":MAILTO:txcenter@asiasociety.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240518T230726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T220636Z UID:218951-1716116400-1716141600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow DESCRIPTION:Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. Across an installation\, a video\, and a series of commissioned sculptures\, Erlanger continues her decade-long disruption of the “semiotics of suburbia.” In her practice\, Erlanger thinks of the home as a greater ecosystem containing not only houses but also their surrounding infrastructures and interior architectures.\nAt Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)\, massive illuminated planet sculptures map the suburban landscape\, positioning the development of home as an environmental force in itself. These new works explore “speculative memory”—how progress can only be understood through hindsight—and what this psychic limitation implies for the artist. Viewers will then move to new diorama sculptures that play on an institutional language of presentation\, positioning the enclosed scenes as already-past. Here\, Erlanger proposes both impossible architectures and terrestrial forms created using strategies of model-making. These works are each marked by changes in season\, emphasizing receding memories of a once-diverse climate.\nThe exhibition culminates in a sitcom set\, riffing on the psychology of interiors as well as acting as a platform to watch Erlanger’s new short film Appliance. The film dovetails recent research into the history and cultural significance of domestic technologies\, such as the shower or washing machine\, with a specific focus on how their operations have been considered interchangeably with human bodily functions. In our age of “polycrisis\,” wherein multiple seismic events occur simultaneously\, If Today Were Tomorrow provides a framework for thinking about the porousness of interior and exterior\, self and non-self\, body and home.\nOlivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Hatje Cantz containing newly commissioned texts about the artist’s practice\, as well as contributions focusing on the interplay between architecture\, psychology\, and science fiction.\nSupport\nMajor support for Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.\nContemporary Arts Museum of Houston is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/olivia-erlanger-if-today-were-tomorrow-22/ LOCATION:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)\, 5216 Montrose\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Kids + Families,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2-v6a8279-hdr-1ypjHv.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)":MAILTO:info@camh.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240518T230726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T220635Z UID:218952-1716116400-1716141600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege DESCRIPTION:Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege presents work by the acclaimed Chicago-based artist\, featuring large-scale paintings\, sculptures\, and installations that highlight the seen and unseen dynamics of Freedmen’s Town in Houston’s Fourth Ward. Throughout his career\, Theaster Gates has soulfully elevated our understanding of Black labor\, materials\, place\, and community to revitalize underrecognized neighborhoods by combining urban planning and a multifaceted art practice. His work powerfully highlights the true value Black spaces hold—although often devalued—as sites of American resilience\, liberation\, and redemption. Gates is a shape-shifter\, a world-builder\, and an artist who singularly connects the dots in both poetic and pragmatic ways. For over 20 years he has worked to transform the Southside of Chicago through various initiatives aimed at preserving and continuing the neighborhood’s vital role as a site for Black creativity. His multifaceted practice\, which demonstrates the dual importance of building community and exposing power structures\, has made him one of the most significant artists working in our time. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/theaster-gates-the-gift-and-the-renege-3/ LOCATION:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)\, 5216 Montrose\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Kids + Families,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/the-gift-and-the-renege-public-opening_2000x1250-1-2TcLnU.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)":MAILTO:info@camh.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240518T230726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T230655Z UID:218953-1716116400-1716145200@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Janet Sobel: All-Over DESCRIPTION:The Menil Collection will open “Janet Sobel: All-Over” on February 23\, 2024\, featuring some thirty paintings and drawings made by artist Janet Sobel (1893–1968). This exhibition\, the first to focus on Sobel’s highly accomplished and influential abstract paintings\, will explore the artist’s work as one of the first to pioneer a new approach to modern abstraction known as “all-over” painting. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/janet-sobel-all-over-41/ LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/janet-sobel-untitled-ca.-1946-48_small-frrejz.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240519T010846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T230644Z UID:218959-1716116400-1716145200@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions DESCRIPTION:“Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions” highlights work made by succeeding generations of artists who forged new paths in their approaches to non-representational art. The exhibition brings together acquisitions made by the Menil over the past fifteen years\, including work by Agnes Denes\, Suzan Frecon\, Sam Gilliam\, Ellsworth Kelly\, Rick Lowe\, and Richard Serra. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/abstraction-after-modernism-recent-acquisitions-18/ LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2021_10_v01_m-press-67BBce.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240519T010847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T230655Z UID:218960-1716116400-1716145200@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Ruth Asawa Through Line DESCRIPTION:Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings\, collages\, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints\, paperfolds\, & more\, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/ruth-asawa-through-line-34/ LOCATION:The Menil Drawing Institute\, 1412 W. Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/untitled-bmc.128-study-in-repeated-vertical-angular-lines-triangles-ca.-1948-49-78NvfT.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240519T010846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T210645Z UID:218956-1716120000-1716138000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Gabriel Lester: Odeon DESCRIPTION:The Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of preeminent European artist Gabriel Lester\, who has gained an international standing for his art\, performance\, and film as well as his dynamic public art installations. Across his now decades-long career\, Lester has developed a captivating cinematic lens through which to see and imagine the world – consistently locating wonder in the seemingly stolid and mundane. For this exhibition Lester is most interested in the interplay between light and shadow\, as well as the seen and unseen\, as he responds to Houston and the fossil fuel industry that so deeply sheathes the region.\nIn the title installation StarStruck\, a dark\, viscous pool of oil is continually interrupted by droplets of water and corresponding flares of brilliant light – piercing a thick chamber of shadow with illuminating transmission. This waking effect is further articulated in the neighboring video sculpture Cosmic Call\, where the artist chases amorphous scenes of the universe through effervescent\, yet ultra low-resolution LED monitors to create a mesmerizing\, if highly elusive display. The capacity for light to simultaneously lead and lose us is expanded in the charmingly immersive installation How to Act as flickering colors surround us – pulsing to the soundtracks of various genres of film and television. The result is familiar and uncanny at once\, evoking the abstract languages of televisual entertainment while also making them strange and disorienting. Early modes of cinema flash before our eyes in the adjacent series Jump Cut\, where methodically rotating cubes house a variety of laser cut tableaux – coming into focus just long enough to dance away\, over and over again. Persistence of vision and retinal residue accumulates here\, propelling the art to work as much before your eyes\, as within and behind them. The final installation marries optical with environmental effect as rays of sun shine through the increasingly perforated ebony towers of Bambaataa\, projecting floating holo-graphic cubes that speak to the fleetingness of so-called structure. Taken and received as a whole\, this exhibition pierces heavy\, weighted geometries and their absolutes with the delightful\, if perplexing magic of discovery. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/gabriel-lester-odeon-3/ LOCATION:Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston\, 4173 Elgin St The University of Houston\, Fine Arts Building\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/gabriel_lester_2000x1000-M4jzHy.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Blaffer Art Museum":MAILTO:infoblaffer@uh.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240519T010846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T210645Z UID:218957-1716120000-1716138000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection DESCRIPTION:“The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection” celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans from 1595 to present day. Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African American history and culture outside the Smithsonian Institution\, the exhibition of the same name features the shared treasures amassed by Shirley and Bernard Kinsey during their five decades of marriage. The collection includes masterful paintings and sculpture\, photographs\, rare books\, letters\, manuscripts and more that offer a well-rounded look at the African American experience and provide new perspectives on the nation’s history and culture.\nThe Kinsey African American Art & History Collection\nOrganized by – The Bernard & Shirley Kinsey Foundation for Arts & Education and KBK Enterprises\, Incorporated URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/the-kinsey-african-american-art-history-collection-57/ LOCATION:Holocaust Museum Houston\, 5401 Caroline St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004-6804\, United States CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/004-dunson-the-cultivators-1mb-oTkkmI.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Holocaust Museum Houston":MAILTO:info@hmh.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240519T010901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T210645Z UID:218961-1716120000-1716138000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Unearthing: Black Porosity – Open Studio Hours DESCRIPTION:Unearthing: Black Porosities by artist-in-residence Rian Crane (he/they) will be open for public viewing in tandem with Sawyer Yards’ Second Saturdays!\nUnearthing: Black Porosity is an amalgamation of works exploring the ongoing lasting legacies\, histories\, and current relations of Black +/ Indigenous lifeways in the gulf south/ global south. Engaging writings from Black/ Caribbean scholars like the “The Black Shoals”\, by Tiffany Lethabo King and Glissant’s “Poetics of Relations\,” Imageries of Black life physically antithesis Blackness and colonial enclosure: Indigeneity and extraction: land and water relations. Unearthing: Black Porosities materializes as performance\, sculpture\, cyanotype\, soundscapes\, and cinema. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/unearthing-black-porosity-open-studio-hours-7/ LOCATION:TX CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/this-is-an-awesome-houston-cultural-event-gMeAZ5.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Fresh Arts":MAILTO:marketing@fresharts.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240519T020649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T220622Z UID:218964-1716121800-1716141600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Vertigo of Color: Matisse\, Derain\, and the Origins of Fauvism DESCRIPTION:In the summer of 1905\, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. The two painters experimented with daring directions in energetic bursts of color\, form\, and structure that eventually led to a boldly inventive artistic language known as Fauvism (from the French fauve\, or “wild beast”).\nWhile staying in the modest French fishing village of Collioure\, Matisse (1869–1954) and Derain (1880–1954) drew from local surroundings as they experienced the bustling life of the port\, the quiet beaches\, and surrounding landscapes. A new aesthetic of color and light was in process.\nVertigo of Color features many of the most celebrated works of Fauvism. The exhibition presents\, for the first time in the United States\, the legacy of that legendary summer through paintings\, drawings\, and watercolors by the two artists\, on loan from national and international museums and private collections.\nTheir evolving visual language grew from sensory experience of a moment in time\, rather than reality. As Matisse wrote\, “My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation\, on feeling\, on the experience of my sensibility.” URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/vertigo-of-color-matisse-derain-and-the-origins-of-fauvism-21/ LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts – Caroline Wiess Law Building\, 1001 Bissonnet Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/henri-matisse-open-window-collioure.6814092024211180766-zG2Q7i.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum of Fine Arts%2C Houston":MAILTO:visitorservices@mfah.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240519T030725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T220622Z UID:218968-1716121800-1716141600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence DESCRIPTION:Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence showcases Kehinde Wiley’s new\, monumental body of work\, with large-scale paintings and sculptures of men and women in repose. Through his work\, with detailed portrayals of Black and Brown individuals\, the artist confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice.\nIn this body of work\, Wiley uses the visual language of heroes\, martyrs\, and saints as portrayed in Western European historical art. His work expands on his “Down” series from 2008\, which was inspired by Hans Holbein the Younger’s 16th-century painting The Dead Christ in the Tomb. For Wiley\, Holbein’s painting triggered an ongoing investigation into the iconography of repose and sacrifice in Western art.\nWiley\, one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists\, created this body of work against the background of the pandemic and the global rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. The works in An Archaeology of Silence stand as elegies and monuments\, underscoring the terms in which Black people are seen and heard.\nIn his words: “That is the archaeology I am unearthing: The specter of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown people all over the world.”\nThe exhibition premiered earlier this year at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco\, and the MFAH is the first stop on the tour. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/kehinde-wiley-an-archaeology-of-silence-20/ LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts – Audrey Jones Beck Building\, 5601 Main Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kehinde-wiley-death-of-hyacinth.5048438429507384326-TTyd4E.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum of Fine Arts%2C Houston":MAILTO:visitorservices@mfah.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240519T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T195542 CREATED:20240519T040626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T230643Z UID:218983-1716138000-1716145200@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:The Crime Is Mine (Mon crime) DESCRIPTION:After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris\, she ascends to scandalous stardom. A new life of fame\, wealth\, and tabloid celebrity awaits—until the truth comes out. Isabelle Huppert appears as a fading silent-film star in François Ozon’s frothy story of murder\, romance\, blackmail\, girl power\, and a bit of French film history. As Paste observes\, “the costumes by frequent Ozon collaborator Pascaline Chavanne are all divine\, with not a wig out of place. The Crime Is Mine has layers of textbook farce decorated with a confectioner’s critique.”\nPart of our FIVE FUNNY FRENCH FILMS series at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/the-crime-is-mine-mon-crime/ LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts – Audrey Jones Beck Building\, 5601 Main Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States CATEGORIES:Film,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/the_crime_is_mine_poster_final_150dpi_2764x4096-scaled-1-Oi3bGH.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Museum of Fine Arts%2C Houston":MAILTO:visitorservices@mfah.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR