Simplon Pass is the narrow Alps passage between Italy and Switzerland. William Wordsworth called it “gloomy,” seeing in its depressing weather patterns and bombastic topography, the “workings of one mind,…
September 2, 2006
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If, as Heraclitus pronounced centuries ago, 'you can't step into the same river twice,' then the Austin Museum of Art's recent joint exhibitions entitled Over + Over and Again +…
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Food is the essential underpinning to looking at art, not only for the nutritional requirements it satisfies, but also for the time it allows for discussion and digestion of what…
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When Terrie received a joint invitation from the governmental arts agencies of Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark to make a research trip, I quickly cashed in my frequent flier account…
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Darryl Lauster would seem to have his finger on the pulse of the Houston zeitgeist right about now.
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Houston got the big old shaft in a recent New York Times article on Texas art style. Did it deserve it?
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If there was ever a show you need to see in person, it's Courbet: Birth of the Modern Landscape at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gustave Courbet's landscapes and…
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For the record, I was 12 years old and I had no respect for life.
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"The sooner every spark of human vitality is snuffed out, the easier our job will be."
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To call upon “animal spirits” is to invoke the irrational and uncontained. John Maynard Keynes, economist and philosophical forebear of the welfare state, renewed the term in the 20th century…
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Every bored divorcee or dreamy retiree who opens an art gallery to satisfy a vague spiritual longing is automatically, magically in league with the ruthless power brokers of Manhattan's art world.
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Daniel Bozhkov's survey exhibition at Arthouse, Cantata for Twelve Choirs and Several Salamanders, made me feel as if I'd escaped down Alice's rabbit hole for the afternoon. I heard his…
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Is there an avant-garde? I think I saw one last week. As the gallery machine churned to life in the first holiday-free weekend of September, Houston galleries bloomed with downtown…
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Last night, I had fun vandalizing the Museum of Certified Art's mission statement.
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Sometimes it is worth it to over-interpret a work of art. Finding meaning where there is little to none not only feels good, but is what art critics do well…
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They could be sister cities, Shanghai and Houston. Steamy weather provides a languid backdrop for a Jetson-esque cityscape punctuated with noisy knots of traffic. People from elsewhere move here in…