Happy Birthday CAMH

Robert Boyd 

The Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston turns 65 today.



They celebrated in the traditional manner:  abstract painting and cosplay.

No Zoning Facebook Comments

The CAMH posted the following on Facebook:

Thanks to everyone who came out for the closing of "No Zoning." It was a great evening. The 88 piece prize-winning Ortiz Middle School marching band acted as honor guard as part of Mel Chin’s "Fundred Dollar Bill Project" (2008-20...10).

Sea shanties were sung to celebrate the hull turning of Zach Moser and Benjy Mason’s Yacht Shop project, which the artists have been constructing inside the Museum over the course of the exhibition.

Ritchie Hubscher performed a (impressive!) dance with the house beam from his home on Mary Ellen Carroll's table stage while Jim Pirtle sung “Our House,” accompanied by Loreta Kovacic on piano.

Artists were on hand to sign copies of the newly released catalogue, "No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston," which includes comprehensive information on the featured artists and works.

And so ends an exhibition inspired by the city itself. 

And Dan Havel (half of the team Havel Ruck Projects who did "Give and Take", the giant ovoid carved out of a condemned house) replied: "Sorry I missed it. We should have carried our piece out the back door with the help of the crowd, so everyone could throw it in the dumpster."

 

So much for ars longa vita brevis! 

The Art History of Houston

Robert Boyd

There is apparently a catalog of the CAMH No Zoning show coming out (note to self: must get), and included in it is a chronology of Houston's art history since 1930. But, as the Chron tells us:

It includes an invaluable chronology of the Houston art scene's history since 1930 by Caroline Huber and the Art Guys. The chronology's meant to be updatable, too, since memories can be rusty and subject to revision. So the authors created a Wikipedia page "for participants to make additions and corrections or insert new information.
But when you go to the page, at least as this writing, here's what you find:

This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference. 17:06, 26 August 2009 RHaworth (talk | contribs) deleted "Houston Alternative Art" ‎ (A7: Article about an eligible subject, which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject) (Peep, Douglas Britt, 9-29-2009)

 I don't know what's up with Wikipedia, but I will make an offer--The Great God Pan Is Dead will create a page for this chronology and update it as comments come in, if CAMH is interested! I would love to see a chronological history of Houston art and artists. (I wouldn't mind seeing the same for music and literature, too!)

Update: The Wikipedia page is now up, but with lots of caveats:

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