Results tagged “streetart”

If you've driven past the Museum of Fine Arts this week, you probably noticed the multi-colored stripes being applied to the crosswalks surrounding the museum campus. No, it's not an embattled graffiti artist taking a stand, but a commissioned street art piece by Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. Cruz-Diez is renowned for his kinetic and optical art, in which he uses the composition of colored lines to create the illusion of movement and the occasional dizzy spell. The crosswalks are being adorned bit by bit this week in time for the Latin American Experience Gala and Auction at the MFAH this Saturday and the opening of North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection. The MFAH has several of Cruz-Diez's pieces in their permanent collection, and Houston is the first American city to install one of his crosswalk pieces. If you don't have the cash to attend the gala, you can check out the exhibit for free this Sunday. We just love Target Free First Sundays, don't you?

We all have that one friend who is just 100% too cool to shop at just any boring Land O' Retail - and that's where hip little spots like Sucker Punch Clothing (2609 Dunlavy) come into play.

What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week. Being the nation's capital, DCist felt especially proud to let freedom ring this week by exposing the really important issues, like how sad they...

From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes' exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest skyscraper was finally completed, found a cheaper way to get to Gothamist, invented a tasty new dessert, and brought back their Craigslist Round-Up feature with a bang. Bostonist watches...

As the world holds its breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans...

As 2006 ends and 2007 begins, the -ists look back not at the past week, but at the past year. So here it is, your Best of 2006 Spectacular. And from all of us at the -ists, happy New Year! Austinist was all about controversy as new construction to increase urban density ran rampant in 2006, as did threats to the city's image from gigantic corporations looking to set up shop in town, leading...

If you've seen Waldo in the Montrose area lately, it's not a fluke. This is one guy's personal project. Mr. Waldo is responsible for about a dozen works of street art in Houston as well as Austin. He had this to say about his very first Houston Waldo: My girlfriend is the one who inspired me to embark on this Waldo project. Not too sure how it will evolve but I'm really excited and already...

It's time to clear your mind of all the problems you think the city has and focus on the real public menace: downtown newspaper racks in various colors and materials. What's that? They're not a public hazard? Well, don't tell that to City Council, which has a revised proposal to clamp down on dilapidated, poorly constructed, abandoned and non-green news racks in the central business district. According to KHOU, downtown boosters have complained about...

Just as Houstonist was thinking we'd seen it all in the realm of street art came the Houston Press's report on Knitta, a pair of Montrose moms who are tagging the 'hood one stitch at a time. No, you're not dreaming: It's knit graffiti. The moms — who go by AKrilik and PolyCotN — are working mothers who never had the attention span to finish a normal-scale knitting project, so they've turned to tagging door...