REVIEW: ‘Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System’ at the CAMH
Art can be radical. There’s nothing new about this statement because art has always been radical in some form or function.
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You Didn’t Have to Be There, But It Helps: Stage Environment at CAMH
“It is not an acropolis we want there. It is not Culture on a corner. I think of the new museum building as a stage environment to house the multimedia in which artists of today are working.”
It Happened in Texas: Antoni Miralda, the Kilgore Rangerettes and Flying Bread at the CAMH
Jim Harithas was the maverick director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston from 1974 to 1978.
Telepathic Improvisation at the CAMH
The animating conceit of Telepathic Improvisation, a film by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz and the centerpiece of their first U.S. solo museum exhibition of the same title at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Muscle Memory: CAMH Surveys Annabeth Rosen’s Process-Pushing Ceramics
Even as an undergrad, ceramic sculptor Annabeth Rosen was known as a “rabble rouser” for constantly testing the limits of clay.
Old and Improved: Art as Wish Fulfillment in CAMH’s A Better Yesterday
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s latest exhibition A Better Yesterday, on view May 20-Sept. 3, brings together work by Jack Early, JooYoung Choi, and Lily van der Stokker. Devon Britt-Darby caught up with director Bill Arning, who organized the show.
Dean’s Show: Is Paul Ramírez Jonas’s CAMH Survey Really His?
Mid-career retrospectives have a way of messing with their subjects’ heads. When you’re used to always thinking about the next project, looking back on decades’ worth of work can produce as much anxiety as nostalgia.
Balance in the Fog of Memory: Angel Otero at CAMH
Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing, on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through March 19, 2017, is the artist’s first survey exhibition, covering just under a decade of his work.
flow: Jae Ko at CAMH
Downstairs at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Zilkha Gallery is a cold space. When it’s empty, the bare white walls and concrete floor can make it feel like an icy cavern buried deep in the Tundra. It’s a suitable place for flow, the latest in a series of site-specific installations by Jae Ko called Force of Nature, on view through September 18, 2016.
Weaving Narratives of Music and Art: Jennie C. Jones at the CAMH
Music, much like visual art, has long been a tool used to comment and reflect on sociopolitical and socioeconomic issues.
Review: Jane Alexander at CAMH
Jane Alexander’s motley cast of characters alternately attracts and repels. Her figurative sculptures of near life-size human-animal hybrids are simultaneously grotesque and sympathetic, quietly aggressive and compellingly beautiful. They are also altogether human in their interactions. Throughout the main gallery of the Contemporary Arts Museum [...]
Sculpture + Sanctuary: ‘Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege’
Change always comes at a cost, and more often than people realize, it is a human cost.