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Drive
One of the worst and best things to happen at this year’s Texas Contemporary Art Fair was a car crash. -
The Kingdom of the Sick
Michael Bise’s adversity has produced a suite of drawings that offer us an alternative and unblinking view of the experience of death, illness, and our medical system. Luckily for us, he is brave and skillful enough to share it. -
New York Now: The Ten Second Tour
I spent the week of May 1-7 in New York to see galleries/museums and attend a curator conference. As an obsessive photo taker, I thought [...]
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Chatting with Sally Glass of Dallas’ semigloss. Magazine
A few months back I took a weekend trip to Dallas, and was impressed by the young, vibrant art scene emerging there. Grassroots arts ventures [...]
Latest Posts
Wols: A Misinterpretation
What was it about Wols and this brief, vague period in art history that gave me the impression I was looking at religious icons?
Surface Tiki: Everything Is OK: Justin Hunter Allen
It's a serious show, but it's not a dick about being serious; I think that's something everyone in the art world needs to learn.
STARRING RENZO PIANO AS MICK JAGGER
After the lecture was a tightly coiled media hour. A star was in the building. The star that built the building was in the building. I was stunned by the amount of poetry and humor that emerged inside a handful of minutes.
The Pleasant Contemporary: Liam Gillick / Marianne Vitale at The Contemporary Austin
Pairing of Gillick and Vitale is a strategic curatorial pick for the rebranded institution. This choice is as smart as it is risk-free.
The Nearest Air: Waltercio Caldas at the Blanton
Swank: saturated style, confidence, nostalgia, sex, gloss, perfection to the point of sleaze. The works reach out to you and say, “Why don't you relax and sit on the leather sofa while I mix you a drink?”
Los Angeles Now: California-Pacific Triennial, Joel Shapiro, a Mystery Cavern, and more…
In contrast to my recent NY posts, here is a leaner wrap-up of my trip to Los Angeles for bi-coastal balance.
The Courtier Class and the Romantic Landscape
When Prada Marfa was inaugurated it seemed self-evident that this would lead to a situation like we find today: johnny-come-lately corporate giant seizes upon the precedent and employs it to culturally legitimize advertising.
HOMECOMING! Committee: MacGuffin at and x
The hot tub installed in the gallery for the opening night was just the beginning.
East Austin Studio Tour 2013
After spending almost four hours at Canopy, I needed a break from talking to awesome artists and eating crickets.
Still Life: Nocturne by Nick Brown at Tiny Park
The two big c's are warranted here: crepuscular and chiaroscuro. The miasma of not-quite-blacks encroaching upon vulnerable fauna resembles sludgy crude oil — a reminder of the 2010 BP spill and too many others in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.
Walead Beshty at The Power Station
Placed in a post-apocalyptic setting created with wallpaper, video and audio, Beshty's works read as a naive understanding of what it is to live in Mexico's landscape of violence.
Eli Walker at RE Gallery
The work of casualists and provisionalists like Walker is not Jerry Salz's “Neo-Mannerism.” These artists are, if anything, neo-modernist. This crop of new, young work in Dallas is a throwback to Giacometti, Guston, and Rothko.
