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Clifford Owens at CAMH: If performance art isn't live, is it still art?

By Joseph Campana

02.05.11 | 1:30 pm

You can take a picture of a symphony, but you won’t hear the music. If you take a picture of performance art, what do you get? I found myself asking just this as I wandered into the Conte ...

The Year In Culture

Less blockbuster, more indie surprises: A call for fewer Texas-sized art exhibits in 2011

By Joseph Campana

12.27.10 | 2:56 pm

What I want most from art is surprise. I want something that delights or shocks and makes the whole world seem new. As I looked back on a heady year of art in 2010, I thought about what has kept me ...

CAMH mind bender

In Fluxus: Benjamin Patterson wants to lick whipped cream off your naked body

By Joseph Campana

11.17.10 | 11:45 am

Benjamin Patterson wants you. To make music with your tongue, to cover a shapely body with whipped cream and lick it off, to scrub your face with preserved lemon, and to donate your subconscious to ...

Artists/Scholars Talk: George E. Lewis: In Search of Benjamin Patterson: An Improvised Journey

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

01.22.11

Head to the CAMH for a talk by George E. Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Columbia University, and catalogue essayist, Department of Music, Columbia University. Lewis will discuss

Artists/Scholars Talk: Valerie Cassel Oliver

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

01.15.11

Learn more about the current exhibition, Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us, with Valerie Cassel Oliver, organizing curator and CAMH senior curator. The exhibition charts the work of

Concert: Texas Noise and Ambient Environment

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

01.13.11 - 01.20.11

For this concert, Texas musicians will perform works inspired by the exhibition, Benjamin Patterson: Born in the Statue of FLUX/us. The exhibition charts the work of Benjamin Patterson, a groundbre

Concert: Pamela Z

12.04.10

Internationally renowned musician and performance artist Pamela Z will perform an evening of her own compositions. This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Benjamin Patterson: Born in

Musiqa Loft Concert with Benjamin Patterson

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

11.07.10

Benjamin Patterson, founding member of the avant-garde group Fluxus currently featured in an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, teams with Musiqa to perform an evening of compositi

Artists/Scholars Talk: Benjamin Patterson

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

11.06.10

Join artist Benjamin Patterson and learn more about his 50-year career as he leads a gallery walk-through of the exhibition, Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us. This retrospective of

Opening reception for Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

11.05.10

This exhibit is a retrospective of the Benamin Patterson's oeuvre that spans forty years and includes collage, drawing, sculpture, and music. A founding member of Fluxus, a loose and internatio