31st Annual Houston Art Car Parade, TX2017 Houston Art Car Parade Grand Marshal Cheech Marin April 12–15, 2018 The 2018 Houston Art Car Parade, organised by the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, will take place April 12–15, with the Parade day being Saturday, April 14. The Parade will feature more than 250 cars, bikes, skaters and motorised creatures rolling along Allen Parkway and into Downtown Houston, making it the largest gathering of its kind in the world, and one of the biggest annual events in Houston. Click here for the Parade route map. The Legendary Art Car Ball will take place on Friday, April 13 from 6pm, and the Houston Art Car Parade Awards Ceremony & Brunch will take place on Sunday, April 15 from 12pm. Highlights from the 30th Annual Houston Art Car Parade Weekend in 2017 Eddie Arning at Ricco/Maresca, NYApril 19 – June 9, 2018 "Eddie Arning (1898-1993): Under the Influence" features works by the self-taught artist from Germania, Texas. Arning was a troubled youth, ultimately diagnosed with what would now be called schizophrenia. An occupational therapist at a hospital asylum gave Arning some art materials and he began creating art. Since its debut at the Dupree Gallery in 1965 in Irving, Texas, Arning’s work has been the subject of a number of exhibitions, and illustrations of his paintings and articles about his life and work have appeared in many books, catalogues and magazines. Ricco/Maresca Gallery Bill Traylor receives headstone in Montgomery ALJeffrey Wolf Internationally renowned self taught artist Bill Traylor, who died in 1949, received a headstone at the graveyard where he lies in Montgomery AL on March 27. The long process of honouring Traylor with a headstone was started by his family in 1992 and the campaign grew with help of key supporters including Marcia Weber, Jeffrey Wolf and Leslie Umberger. Six great grand children were present at the ceremony along with almost 80 other guests where proclamations by both the mayor’s and governor’s offices were read and given to the family... MIAM in Sète, FranceHafiz Adem until September 23, 2018 In “Evasions: l’art dans liberté”, Musée International des Arts Modestes brings together artworks produced in prisons, camps and places of refuge for exiles, and concentration camps. Works include pieces created in Calais Jungle workshops; drawings by Haz el Sudani made on the sidewalks of Paris; artworks from the Paños – Mexican prisoners in American jails; and plastic creations produced by inmates in French prisons. Musée International des Arts Modestes Galerie Art Cru BerlinApril 12 – May 31, 2018 Norman Seibold’s (b. 1968, Stuttgart) heavy oil paintings are like a force of nature. He works several layers of thick paint with his hands to establish creations in large formats. They depict recurrent leitmotifs like “woman with flower” or explore the structure of paint itself in abstract pieces with relief-like textures. Galerie Art Cru Berlin Out this month and available to pre-order now, Raw Vision 97 features the below, plus much more! Raw Vision 97 Article Preview:
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