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If you've ever contemplated a piece by Damien Hirst and found yourself saying "I don't get it", then the Museum of Fine Arts has just the workshop for you. This week and next the MFAH will host How to Look at Contemporary Art, a workshop aimed at those of us who have really tried to understand the likes of Hirst and Marcel Duchamp but just can't seem to make the connections. The first session tonight focuses on tips and tools to engage and interpret contemporary art. Next week's session will provide some historical context for interpreting contemporary art.

::Sonja Roesch Gallery Talk: Jac Leirner::

Perspectives 159: Superconscious, Automatisms Now December 14, 2007 – March 9, 2008 Opening reception December 13, 2007, 6:30-9:00 p.m. Sigh. This is Houston's last hurrah with Senior CAMH Curator Paola Morsiani, and we are sad. Having been with the CAMH for over eight years, Morsiani is heading north to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, an internationally renowned encyclopedic museum in the midst of a $258 million renovation and expansion....

Week's not over yet! Here's your chance to catch some ongoing events standing on their last leg today. Out the door, now. Or you'll miss 'em. Events Closing Today: Black Light /White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art [Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | 'til 5pm] Lunch Films [Aurora Picture Show | 3pm] Houston International Jazz Festival [Jones Plaza | 5pm] Gallery Talk The Artist's Eye: On Robert Rauschenberg [Menil today @ 3pm] --- Photo:...

While running along Montrose Ave this morning, discovering the sidewalks (and subsequent ankle-twisting cracks) of a neighborhood we have often admired, but of recent become a resident, we got an upclose look at many of the establishment we have visited many a time, yet on foot were allowed to explore a bit more. In the effort of being visionaries, we've decided to name this strip of road SoMo (or South Montrose, for you slow pokes.)...

Only a few times (a week) does Houstonist gets so excited about an event that we forget about this summer's deluge for a few moments. Weather was the last thing on our minds when our mother told us we found out about this event. More like, "weather" or not we should just go camp out now and wait for the opening. (Please don't let our contrived puns keep you from reading.) Perspectives 157: Xaviera Simmons,...

Lawndale Art Center: The Big Show! Houstonist hearts Lawndale. And we have a really big heart for their really big show, appropriately-titled The Big Show. The Big Show is Lawndale Art Center’s annual open-call, juried exhibition. It has been an important venue through which emerging and under-represented Houston area artists gain exposure since the show’s conception in 1984. The Big Show was formerly the East End Show, sponsored by the East End Progress Association, at...

Tonight, the group of galleries on Colquitt near Lake St. (known as Gallery Row) will hold openings for several exciting new art exhibits. That means art, drinks, and hor d'oeuvres - and lots of them. Here's a preview of just a few of the exhibits that open tonight (receptions from 6-8). >> Hooks-Epstein Galleries - Teresa Dunn's debut exhibition of paintings and drawings titled In Dreams opens today. Dunn uses oils and graphite to create...

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