Internationally acclaimed artists, architect, and weirdo Vito Acconci will be lecturing at the MFA tonight. Over the course of his almost fifty year career in the art world Vito has stuffed marbles in his face, bitten himself, and whispered lewd remarks to strangers while inappropriately touching himself in public for the sake of his art. In the 1990's Vito turned his artistic talents to the fields of architecture and landscape design. And has developed a significant body of experimental architectural projects. He has lectured around the world, has taught at many institutions, including the Cooper Union; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Yale University; and the Parsons School of Design. He currently teaches at Brooklyn College.
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Some pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty cool stuff opening this weekend, kids. Check it out: Jeanne Cassanova / Reginald Rachuba The Joanna Gallery "Those in attendance can be assured a multi sensory onslaught of 'image spillage'." Oh, really. We have to admit, the term "spillage" sort of scares us, but the image at right is so cool, we're willing to risk it. Both Cassanova and Rachuba pull from contemporary images and create narratives woven between each other...
Cara Barer—The Book Project DeSantos Gallery Beginning with just a found soiled copy of the Yellow Pages, Cara Barer created The Book Project, and eventually had volumes of new sculptures resulting from old books. As book lovers, our first inclination was to scoff at the idea of destroying old books for the sake of art. But then we saw the sculptures. This is one of the Houstonist's favoritist things we've seen in a long time....
With so many fun and interesting gallery openings this evening, we thought we would briefly give you a few options and let you, dear readers, decide which one to attend...or maybe gallery hopping is your thing! Eating, drinking, being merry, viewing art and what-not. Either way, there is much interesting work on view this beautiful fall evening in Houston. First up is the opening of Jack Zajac A Survey: 1967-2007 at Gremillion & Co. Gallery....
Art Institute of Houston Poetry Forum Kickoff Borders Books and The Art Institute of Houston offer a monthly Poetry Reading Series at Borders River Oaks, hosted by Ken Jones, instructor at The Art Institute of Houston. The readings are the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Borders River Oaks at 3025 Kirby Drive at the corner of West Alabama. These monthly poetry events are free, open to the public, and part of...
The Houston Dynamo unleashed their new mascot this morning at the Houston Zoo - meet Diesel, an orange and white fox. The mascot was chosen from entries by students at the Art Institute of Houston. Eric Hulsey and Leslie Lopez, the winning artists, will receive a $500 scholarship for their winning entry. The Dynamo marketing team says the name Diesel “plays off Houston's famous petroleum industry. Diesel is a fuel needed to run an engine...
Bistro Toulouse, located at 5750 Woodway, will be hosting a St. Arnold's Beer Dinner on Tuesday, January 23rd. The dinner/beer costs $65/per person plus gratuity and taxes. The meal will consist of five courses, paired with a seasonal beer, which is used in the preparation of the course (beer with dessert - fabulous - and it's Winter Stout!). This is a first for Bistro Toulouse - we hope it's not the last! If you are...
This is a busy week for Houstonian and Project Runway winner Chloe Dao. The DVD of her season of the hit Bravo show hit stores on Tuesday, and if she wants a copy, she’ll be buying it herself. (Chloe is apparently even paying for her flight to the premiere party for season three. At least she got a new car and $100,000 when she won the show.) Lucky for us, Chloe says on the DVD that she has no plans to leave Houston. Instead, she’s hoping she can create “a little fashion capitol” here.