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Exclusive: Houston’s Orange Show Gets Juicy New Funding and an “Art Guy” Executive Director
The wacko outdoor rooms of the Orange Show Monument usually dare a visitor not to grin from ear to ear, so I was dismayed this week to see its stucco walls crumbling in some places, with ceramic tiles missing, paint peeling, and a door splintered and disintegrating. Weeds poked up through cracks in the base.Jack Massing was pointing out how subsidence and a few years of extreme weather have done a number on the exuberant structure, which is Texas’s most iconic visionary environment. Still, he lost himself in a mosh pit of happy memories. His head was back in the freewheeling 1980s, when Houston’s art happenings could make wildcatting sound like prim business. No stage was better suited for shenanigans than the multilevel Orange Show…The post Exclusive: Houston’s Orange Show Gets Juicy New Funding and an “Art Guy” Executive Director appeared first on Texas Monthly.