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SUMMARY:Brenda Biondo: Sun to Earth
DESCRIPTION:Koslov Larsen is pleased to present Sun to Earth\, the gallery’s third solo presentation by artist Brenda Biondo. Combining several series of Biondo’s works\, Sun to Earth introduces new ways of looking at common subjects while challenging viewers’ perception of color and three-dimensional space. The works explored throughout the show focus on atmospheric phenomena and other ephemeral components of the natural world. Unnatural (Texas Tumbleweeds) and Prairie Wheels study the interconnectedness of humans and flora\, inspired by the iconic tumbleweed\, an invasive species brought inadvertently to the United States in the 1870s by Eastern European settlers. Influenced heavily by James Turrell’s Skyspaces\, Perceptual Skies emphasizes the limitless potential of light as a subject and the subjectivity of perception. Biondo states\, “Using a visual language that deconstructs the sky portion of the landscape helps articulate questions about how we engage with our environment and the emotional and psychological effects natural light has on humans.” The images in the series follow the formal aesthetics of modern painting\, particularly minimalism\, while emphasizing the ambiguity between the real and the reproduced.\nSun to Earth will be on view at Koslov Larsen from May 3 – June 21\, 2024.
URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/brenda-biondo-sun-to-earth-17/
LOCATION:Koslov Larsen\, 4411 Montrose Blvd Suite C\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T170000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240525T213639Z
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SUMMARY:Tracye Wear | From the Garden
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition of recent sculpture by Tracye Wear. Wear is inspired by her combined interests in Cubist and early 20th Century sculpture with natural forms found in her garden.\n“With her latest series\, Tracye Wear pushes the scale limitations of the ceramic arts while reveling in the life-affirming forms of nature. Not thrown on a potter’s wheel\, these contours are molded\, shaped\, and coil-built\, but become organic beings. Decidedly of the hand\, these vessels’ surfaces are smoothed and rounded yet often animated by the controlled indentations of human fingers.\nTransferring her real-life skills with plants\, soil\, water\, and sunlight from her home’s backyard\, she enters a related studio terrain of pliable clay\, moisture\, the alchemy of glazes\, and finally intense heat. By reenacting the mysteries of how vegetation sprouts and thrives as transformed by photosynthesis\, Wear introduces a verdant vocabulary of seeds\, tendrils\, leaves\, and blossoms to spiraling\, bulbous\, and seemingly pregnant vessels.\nThe artist resists the allure of boldly colored and glossy glazes\, for the most part\, instead seeking the subtleties inherent in transition and gradation. Her experimentation with the layer upon layer of colored glazes—when applied to protruding ribs and sinking recesses—embraces the chemical interactions and revelations that result from the extreme temperatures of high-firing. The transformative heat of the kiln itself provides a final chance interpretation of Wear’s otherwise intentioned deployment of palette and light.\nAlong the way\, viewers may recognize allusions to the Venus of Willendorf\, Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights\, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Tower of Babel\, or the shadow and light of Dutch floral still lifes. At this exhibition\, Wear invites us to wander—and to linger and wonder—in her secret garden\, surreal but familiar\, teeming with the affirmations of growth and transformation.” —Don Quaintance\, Public Address Design
URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/tracye-wear-from-the-garden-10/
LOCATION:Moody Gallery\, 2815 Colquitt\, Houston\, TX\, 77098\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moody Gallery":MAILTO:info@moodygallery.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T032142Z
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SUMMARY:SHAPE's 45th Annual Pan-African Cultural Festival
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to SHAPE’s 45th Annual Pan African Cultural Festival! Join us at the S.H.A.P.E. Community Center for a day filled with vibrant performances\, delicious food\, and the celebration of culture. Immerse yourself in traditional dances\, music\, and art from various countries. This FREE in-person event is a fantastic opportunity to connect with the community and experience the rich heritage of our people. Don’t miss out on this exciting cultural extravaganza!\nFeaturing\nKoumanKe’le\, Journi Anjel\, M3CCA\, Calmecac Tonantzin Yolilitzyotl\, Urban Souls\, Nicotine & The Warmtones\, All Real Radio\, & MORE!
URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/shapes-45th-annual-pan-african-cultural-festival/
LOCATION:S.H.A.P.E. Community Center\, 3815 Live Oak\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Festivals,Free Events,Kids + Families,Music,Outdoors,Performance Art,Special Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="S.H.A.P.E. Community Center":MAILTO:smuhammad@shape.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T032126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240525T223714Z
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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-7/
LOCATION:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)\, 5216 Montrose\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Kids + Families,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)":MAILTO:info@camh.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T180000
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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-24/
LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts – Audrey Jones Beck Building\, 5601 Main Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Museum of Fine Arts%2C Houston":MAILTO:visitorservices@mfah.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T032127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240525T223715Z
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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-25/
LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts – Caroline Wiess Law Building\, 1001 Bissonnet Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Museum of Fine Arts%2C Houston":MAILTO:visitorservices@mfah.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T032127Z
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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-26/
LOCATION:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)\, 5216 Montrose\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Kids + Families,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)":MAILTO:info@camh.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T032158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240525T235153Z
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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-45/
LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T042133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240525T235153Z
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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-22/
LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T042133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240525T235153Z
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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-38/
LOCATION:The Menil Drawing Institute\, 1412 W. Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T042200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240525T213626Z
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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-8/
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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Blaffer Art Museum":MAILTO:infoblaffer@uh.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T152206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240525T213652Z
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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-13/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fresh Arts":MAILTO:marketing@fresharts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T193656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240525T203711Z
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SUMMARY:Drop-In Experience | Impossible Paper Architecture
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by artist Olivia Erlanger’s off-world landscapes and impossible architectures as featured in Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow\, create a surreal structure using paper and tape.
URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/drop-in-experience-impossible-paper-architecture/
LOCATION:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)\, 5216 Montrose\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Kids + Families,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)":MAILTO:info@camh.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T223712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240525T235153Z
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SUMMARY:Uncle Bob's Photo Zine Market
DESCRIPTION:Uncle Bob’s Photo Zine Market is a one-day market showcasing regional photography zine-makers.\nThe zine\, or self-published magazine\, is an affordable distribution medium that is often overlooked in the larger photography world. Since zines are published using minimal personnel and less costly materials\, they represent a more accessible way for new patrons to support local artists and begin their collecting journey.\nThis year we are excited to announce we will be hosted by Equal Part Brewing Company\, get ready for a day filled with creativity and community vibes.\nWith 20+ vendors showcasing their incredible work\, a photo booth run by the talented Alejandra Quintos\, epic flash tattoos by Battle Royale Tattoo\, and delicious bites from Somos Semillas there’s something for everyone!\nMark your calendars for May 25th from 1-7pm. Don’t forget to bring along that quirky uncle of yours who always has his own “unique” camera style!
URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/uncle-bobs-photo-zine-market/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Special Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="FLATS":MAILTO:flatspresents@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T235223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T212139Z
UID:219359-1716714000-1716742800@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-11/
LOCATION:Sabine Street Studios\, 1907 Sabine Street Studios\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sawyer Yards Houston":MAILTO:events@sawyeryards.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T100000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
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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-69/
LOCATION:Asia Society Texas Center\, 1370 Southmore Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asia Society Texas Center":MAILTO:txcenter@asiasociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
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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-60/
LOCATION:Julia Hester Community Center\, 2020 Solo Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77020\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Julia Hester Community Center":MAILTO:media@jcmatthewm112.sg-host.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T235224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T212139Z
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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-48/
LOCATION:Asia Society Texas Center\, 1370 Southmore Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asia Society Texas Center":MAILTO:txcenter@asiasociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T235224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T223621Z
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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-27/
LOCATION:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)\, 5216 Montrose\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Kids + Families,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)":MAILTO:info@camh.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240525T235225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T223621Z
UID:219364-1716721200-1716746400@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-8/
LOCATION:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)\, 5216 Montrose\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Kids + Families,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)":MAILTO:info@camh.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240526T015203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T235122Z
UID:219367-1716721200-1716750000@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-46/
LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240526T015203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T235122Z
UID:219368-1716721200-1716750000@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-39/
LOCATION:The Menil Drawing Institute\, 1412 W. Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240526T015203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T235122Z
UID:219369-1716721200-1716750000@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-23/
LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240526T015204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T212138Z
UID:219371-1716724800-1716742800@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-63/
LOCATION:Holocaust Museum Houston\, 5401 Caroline St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004-6804\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Holocaust Museum Houston":MAILTO:info@hmh.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240526T025152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T212126Z
UID:219373-1716724800-1716742800@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-9/
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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Blaffer Art Museum":MAILTO:infoblaffer@uh.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240526T035124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T212126Z
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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-14/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fresh Arts":MAILTO:marketing@fresharts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240526T035123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T223621Z
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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-25/
LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts – Audrey Jones Beck Building\, 5601 Main Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Museum of Fine Arts%2C Houston":MAILTO:visitorservices@mfah.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240526T035124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T223621Z
UID:219376-1716726600-1716746400@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-26/
LOCATION:Museum of Fine Arts – Caroline Wiess Law Building\, 1001 Bissonnet Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Museum of Fine Arts%2C Houston":MAILTO:visitorservices@mfah.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240527T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240527T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240526T202211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240527T212121Z
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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-12/
LOCATION:Sabine Street Studios\, 1907 Sabine Street Studios\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sawyer Yards Houston":MAILTO:events@sawyeryards.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240527T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240527T100000
DTSTAMP:20260405T203618
CREATED:20240526T223635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240527T142146Z
UID:219406-1716804000-1716804000@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-70/
LOCATION:Asia Society Texas Center\, 1370 Southmore Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asia Society Texas Center":MAILTO:txcenter@asiasociety.org
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