‘William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY’ at Menil “My life is a quest for the ridiculous image. The visual pun is the golden nugget that we seek.” — William N. Copley A little boy is standing in a room – a typical bourgeois interior, with checkered blue and brown carpeting, cushy furniture and large
BEAUMONT — Hollywood-based acting coach and author Chambers Stevens will return to Beaumont at the end of April for small-group intensive acting workshops, April 25-27, for adults and older teens. He will also teach a Disney 101 workshop for children and pre-teens and a 21st-Century Acting workshop for adults and teens on April 30. The
TASI’s Band Nite has history of fostering local talent The 33 years of TASI history is like that of many 30-year-olds: Time spent in the trenches building your brand from the ground up and reaching a point where it’s ready to take the step up to the next level. For the last nine years or
Of all the qualities that are important to succeeding as an artist (or an arts administrator), perseverance stands out as the mortar that holds together the bricks of administrative skills — diplomacy, financial skills, good reasoning skills and empathy, to name a few — that build the walls of a successful organization. No skill is
Ad Hoc Beaumont will bring the first mobile pop-up art show to Beaumont. Inspired by the success of food trucks, Ad Hoc Beaumont is taking art out of the galleries and into the streets on April 7 with Beaumont’s first mobile pop-up show. “We want to help people think about art in different ways and
An exhibition of Luxury Cars from the Art-Deco Era at MFAH “Father made the most popular cars in the world; I just wanted to make the best.” — Edsel Ford At the dawn of civilization, a scantily clad Sumerian put the wheels on a cart. Five and a half thousands years later, humankind came up with
A look at Shakespeare’s coining skills 400 years after his death “What’s in a word?” When it comes to William Shakespeare, quite a lot, it seems. Scholars estimate that 10,000 to 12,000 new words were coined between 1500 and 1650, of which half are still in use. And no one person is credited with coining
Kessler’s collection covers high & low This is the latest in an ongoing series about Southeast Texas art collectors. Some people focus on collecting high-brow contemporary art works, while others collect banal items such as baseball cards and Coca-Cola products. Jamie Paul Kessler, however, accumulates it all. He is a collector of collections. “I’m not a snob,
Art Studio membership show opens with reception 7-10 p.m., April 2 The Art Studio, Inc. Member Jurored Art Exhibition (TASIMJAE) will be on display in April, opening with a free reception 7-10 p.m. April 2. This year’s juror is Houston-based artist Michael Meazells. Last year’s winner was Avril Falgout and she will be the exhibiting
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