She looked at my proffered slide-sheet as if it was an illustrated menu of birth defects and snorted scornfully. We don't do slides, she sneered.
November 2, 2006
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River City Kids in NYC
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When I was asked by the Harry Abrams Publishing Company to put together a book of special TX homes, I began to think about architects, cities and the hinterlands where…
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I was introduced to Michael Phelan when he bought a sculpture made by a friend of mine. In the work, a tiny, handwritten message on a stick is propped on a concrete block resting on an old piece of linoleum. I considered it her best work to date and was glad to know that someone else appreciated it as well.
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The Hunting Prize deadline looms (Nov. 17), and Arthouse is accepting entries for the New American Talent show, deadline Jan. 12, ’07!! UPDATE: Also, Metro has an open call for…
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We have an embarrassment of lecture riches coming up: Nov. 4 is Matthew Bourbon at the Kimbell (11 am);Nov. 5 is Richard Stout on François de Nome at the Menil…
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The conversation felt so familiar, I knew I had heard it before.
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Nowadays, everyone intuitively understands that it's unfair to show artwork that's not mediocre, because it might bother somebody or cause a ruckus.
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Over the course of a career spanning 30 years, James Drake has worked on and off the wall in mediums as diverse as welded steel, video and photography, always relying…
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A bulbous, overstuffed body meets blinking eyes on flat screens in the work of Witness, where the artist Frances Bagley achieves a tour de force combining fuzzy, touchable matter and…
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It is with some admitted skepticism that I attended the recent “Texelectronica Symposium/Exhibition on Art, Music, Technology, Society, and Culture,” with its thematic focus on ‘sPIN: society, persona, interactivity, and…
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The profusion of talent in the proposals we received, comparable to the massive cloud of pollen generated by a field of ragweed, made the task of our selection committee as difficult as actually defecating a gold brick.
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Critical Art Ensemble offers readers a book so incendiary that the United States government confiscated the first draft under Section 175 of the US Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act. Here the…
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Gone are the days when art raised political consciousness, or are they? Is it true that we live in a collective miasma of what the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk calls…
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The black box model is an apt characterization of WorkSpace, an ongoing series of exhibitions at the Blanton Museum of Art inaugurated along with its new building in April 2006.