Like many of his fellow countrymen, the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier thought highly of baroque art.
May 2, 2005
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Technical mastery in art, much like beauty, tends to take second fiddle to more popular postmodern issues such as innovation and the grotesque.
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In March of 1955 the Public Affairs Luncheon Club, a local women’s group, charged the Dallas Museum of Art with exhibiting the work of artists with Communist affiliations and neglecting…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is hosting contemporary films from Mexico June 3 – June 5. Look for a wide range of themes, from a documentary about the Mexican…
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Congratulations to the winners of this year’s DeGolyer, Kimbrough and Dozier family grants to individual artists: Mark Babcock, Jahje Bath Ives, Joey Fauerso, Baseera Khan, Chad Sager, Raychael Stine and…
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Lance Letscher’s recent work at Howard Scott Gallery in New York city is a testament to the fact that art needn”t be rich in concept to be visually pleasing. With…
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GlassTire Video Interview 3: David McGee
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Baudrillard stated that photos were different from paintings in that they were read as being true.
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Is it enough just to be invited? We have been trying to get inside for so long, we may have lost sight of why we wanted in. Wait, let me…
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If group shows are only as strong as their curatorial concept, group shows of one person’s collection succeed or fail as expressions of that collector’s knowledge and taste.
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Few museums maintain as strong a commitment to a single artist as the Menil Collection does to Cy Twombly.
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This is the second of a two-part series about the commercial building craze in San Antonio’s art community.