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.
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Mulling over Magritte
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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. -
Whites Only: Diversity and the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas
I decided to look at the exhibition history of CADD galleries to see how diverse this prestigious group is when it comes to the artists they choose to exhibit.
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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.
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.
Tom Molloy at Lora Reynolds Gallery
Molloy, like author Emile Zola, quietly weaves narratives that reflect society’s image back on itself.
Monopoly: Mike Osborne and Haden Garrett
The leather padded seats welcomed my presence, but their sharp angles did not exactly promote lounging.
Jet Set, Go! The Goss-Michael Foundation’s Turnaround
Dallas' Goss-Michael shows how an institution can shift gears and broaden its impact.
CORE Fellows 2014
Cohesion isn't the main issue here; it's that not one of those voices is distinct enough to give the show form. I found myself checking and re-checking labels to try to understand who was who.
Mulling over Magritte
The mystery is how Magritte became so ordinary.
