CounterCurrent: The Invisible City
The inaugural CounterCurrent had its hiccups, but it wasn't just people getting naked and smearing things on themselves.
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Twice Ruins in Reverse: Melanie Smith at CAMH and Sicardi Gallery
Why the phenomenal success of Mexico-City-based English expat Melanie Smith? Because her work approximates perfection. -
Looking at Art
Bise looks at looking in his new weekly comic for Glasstire. -
Mulling over Magritte
The mystery is how Magritte became so ordinary. -
Charles Long at The Contemporary Austin
Long’s installations are about watching others experience them: amongst the barrage of sensorial stimulations, we can see ourselves as a part of the crowd—the insatiable consumers of cultural experiences.
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Looking at Art
The elbows of time.
Miguel Aragón’s New Works at Tiny Park
As with a whole sub-genre of Mexico-violence art, Aragón's hand-drilled portraits shove the violence straight into your face.
SIGHTS UNSCENE: Signs Of Spring
In the light of the spring sun, Houston's landscape of textured surfaces and hand-painted signs is open for viewing.
Rebecca Carter: Sleep Architecture and the Dream House
Formal fragility becomes the ethereal content of conversations past, places lived, and phenomena alternatively remembered or read.
Looking at Art
Bise looks at looking in his Wednesday comic.
Sound/Speed/Marker: Hubbard/Birchler at Ballroom Marfa
History is built from stories; Hubbard and Birchler ask us to pay attention to the role that filmmaking plays in its construction.
Twice Ruins in Reverse: Melanie Smith at CAMH and Sicardi Gallery
Why the phenomenal success of Mexico-City-based English expat Melanie Smith? Because her work approximates perfection.
Persistent Schlock Deficit Haunts 2014 Dallas Art Fair
If this trend continues, next year there will be nothing left to ridicule.
The Voice’s Folds: Morehshin Allahyari, Michael A. Morris, Jenny Vogel
These filmmakers prefer visual noise to clear pictures. The effect is like traveling across interesting landscape with a dusty windshield.
Dinh Q Lê: Crossing the Farther Shore
We can enter Lê's semi-permeable walls of the past only with our eyes, much in the way we construct a memory: lacy bits of fact forming a vague half-truth in our minds.
Artists Anonymous
What emerges from the uncensored, anonymous collective conscious? It’s a whole lot of love, sex, violence, monsters, animals, and fantastical, childlike absurdity.
Looking at Art
Bise looks at looking in his new weekly comic for Glasstire.
Machine Vision
This upcoming Austin screening dives inside the mechanisms of the moving image with rarely-seen film/video works by Hollis Frampton, Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad, and Steina Vasulka.
Your A-Game Guide to the Dallas Art Fair
I enjoy seeing my art scene wearing its Sunday best.
Nicolas G. Miller: Common Sense
About a year ago, I was introduced to the work of Nicolas G. Miller during the jurying of the Dallas Museum of Art’s annual Awards […]
Steam: Hills Snyder’s Virtual Reality Ride
The sound drifting in from the headphones creates a virtual reality that is as unsettling and seductive as peyote.
