Glasstire Art Pick of the Week

Inbound Houston: Nothing but blue skies

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By Glasstire Staff

11.12.09 | 09:26 am

Are you seeing blue skies where there should be a big, ugly advertisement for booze or cheap furniture?

Artist Karyn Olivier is tackling one of Houston's worst urban blights: She's plastering 13 billboards around town with photographs of what would be there if the billboards didn't exist.

Track the Inbound Houston project here. It's up through Nov. 22.

A project of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center at the University of Houston.

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