The City of Georgetown is hosting arts events in April for our visitors and resident art lovers.
Spring Art Stroll 2024
Mark your calendars for the Georgetown Spring Art Stroll in downtown from 4-8 pm April 18. The Art Stroll is an opportunity for patrons to engage in interactive arts experiences including artist demonstrations, performances, live music, and art shopping at Grace Plaza and at arts and culture facilities and arts-based businesses throughout the Downtown Georgetown Cultural District.
Start your stroll at any of the three check-in locations to pick up your Art Stroll badge. Then continue across the Downtown…
Art Car Museum
Houston’s Art Car Museum, a beloved tribute to both local and national car artists, is slated to close after 25 years in business.
Recently announced on the museum’s website, officials said the famous museum on Heights Boulevard will be opened to the public until April 28, and plans to commemorate its legacy are currently up in the air.
“Discussions are in progress with local and regional arts organizations to continue and evolve the Art Car Museum’s presence, legacy and the mission in the future,” according to a statement on the museum’s website. “The details of those discussions…
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DIETATING NARRATIVE DEBATE. The estate and family of Ana Mendieta are concerned about the portrayal of the Cuban artist’s story in recent projects, including an Amazon MGM Studios film in development, starring and produced by America Ferrera. The problem for the family, according to the New York Times, is the excessive focus on the artist’s tragic death by falling from her apartment window in 1985, rather than on her work, and their inability to change that. “Not only are we forced…
The Los Altos City Council’s rejection of public art last week left the city, well, heartless.
Council members say no thanks Feb. 27 to a $55,000 allocation for purchase and installation of a “Low Poly Open Heart” sculpture. The 5-by-5-2.5-foot artwork by artist Matt Duffy was recommended for approval by members of the Parks, Arts and Recreation and Cultural Commission. The council was charged with choosing among three recommended locations in south Los Altos.
The location, however, became a moot point when the sculpture met with disapproval and overall indifference from council members. When last discussed in September, councilmembers discussed…
Some 32,000 people attended Frieze Los Angeles from 29 February to 3 March. While the number of exhibitors fell to 95 from 124, sales and celebrity sightings were strong.
Will Ferrell in front of Sean Kelly’s booth at Frieze Los Angeles 2024. Courtesy Casey Kelbaugh and Frieze. Photo: Casey Kelbaugh.
Among the top sales at this year’s Frieze Los Angeles were Richard Serra’s paint stick on paper work Pamuk (2009), which Gladstone Gallery sold for US $2 million and a charcoal drawing by Robert Longo that Thaddaeus Ropac sold for $1.6 million.
Richard Serra, Pamuk, (2009). Paintstick on handmade paper.…
Activists poured porridge and jam on a marble bust of Queen Victoria and sprayed fire extinguishers filled with soup at a large bronze statue of the monarch during two recent protests in Glasgow, Scotland.
The group, called This Is Rigged, claimed responsibility for the two protests, which took place inside the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum at noon on March 3, and at George Square at 10:45 am local time on March 4.
During the protest at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, one of the activists spray-painted the word “cunt” in pink on the plinth, while the other poured…
Conjure an object in your head, and there’s a good chance you can purchase a version of it that is embossed with Keith Haring’s motifs.
You can buy a Uniqlo baseball hat with his “radiant baby” image ($29.90), a chess set from the MoMA Design Store whose pieces are all barking dogs and breakdancing figures ($55), high-top sneakers from Zara covered in Haring’s thick black lines ($25.99; on sale at the time of writing), and lounge pants from Urban Outfitters adorned with people with flowering heads ($45).
You can buy skateboards, stickers, and pins, all dotted with the same images…
MILWAUKEE — There are a lot of hotel rooms in Milwaukee. However, not all hotel rooms are created equally. Sure, there are luxury suites and penthouse rooms. However, the four rooms in Milwaukee are vastly different from the rest.
Introducing the canvas rooms at Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel. These four rooms are decorated by local artists. For a hotel that already specializes in showcasing art, these four rooms are exceptionally creative and artistic. Each room has a different theme: photography, spatial design, music, and the leopard room.
James Groh
Inside the Leopard Room at the Saint Kate –…
