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Ex-Presidents in Pearland: Heads Above the Muck
A reader sent in a larger version of the above photo to the Brazosport News. It shows the first giant presidential heads in place at Pearland’s new Presidential Park. Eventually, the remaining...
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Big-Head Sculptor Sells Studio on Summer St.
A reader who doesn’t sound too happy about the situation sends word that David Adickes has sold his artist-studio building at 2500 Summer St.: Artists who lease space there have been told they need to...
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Pictures Plus Telephone Picture
Having once graced a hotel owned by a legendary real-estate swindler, David Adickes’s telephone sculpture has quite the Houston pedigree: Adickes first placed it on a friend’s property off SH 4 and FM...
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Ike’s Revenge: Paul Is Dead
Discovered in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike: David Adickes’s giant Beatles sculpture on Summer St. is now one member short. That’s 7,000 pounds of McCartney-ish concrete rubble under that black tarp....
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Pearland Heads Cut Off: The WaterLight District’s Giant Presidential Bust
The property intended to be home to the Waterlights District — the proposed mixed-use shopping and eating extravaganzorama in Pearland — has been posted for foreclosure by its main creditor, Amegy...
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Alamo Banana House: Who Says You Can’t Lease It All?
The orange Spanish Colonial-style house that famously fronts the I-10 west onramp from I-45 south is now available for lease. The address is 1215 Wrightwood, adjacent to Woodland Park. Reports our...
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David Adickes’s Big-Headed Summer Street Studio Getting a Redo
The launching pad for I-45′s Mount Rush Hour, that presidential muck circle in Pearland, and more outsize sculpture projects has a buyer. David Adickes — creator of the giant Sam Houston of Huntsville...
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Here’s Your Next Big Freeway Sign, Houston
Sculptor David Adickes is almost ready to plant this giant concrete-on-steel sign on property he owns along Chester St. on the south side of I-10, just east of Patterson. You’ll be able to get your...
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An Alamo Drafthouse at SculpturWorx? Not So Fast
According to an unattributed report published today on Culturemap, beer-and-movie pioneer Alamo Drafthouse plans to open its second third Houston-area location at 2500 Summer St. off Sawyer in the...
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Event Space Almost Ready To Rent at Summer Street Studios
Since many of the big-headed attendees here at David Adickes’s former SculpturWorx compound are already dressed in formal wear — well, except for the Beatles — it shouldn’t be too much of a stretch...
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