‘It’s All True,’ Presented by Co-Lab Projects
Obsessed with the ineffable frisson of live performances, the group Object Collection combed through recordings of more than 1000 hours of Fugazi performances, effectively keystroking through the songs to find moments of shock and surprise.
The House and Universe of Ashley Thomas at Las Cruxes
The hyper-detail, size, and symbolism of the show's centerpiece are overwhelming. It is simply the most beautiful and impressive piece I’ve seen this year.
Tía Chuck: A Portrait of Chuck Ramirez
Ramirez’s work, and now this film, are sort of Dia De Los Muertos altar to Ramirez, which is by extension, a kind of altar for those of us who love Ramirez's work.
Michael Menchaca: Vignettes from San Antonio
The show carries on the lineage of Menchaca’s ancestors; with his wit, imagination, and intimacy with San Antonio, he's making a new "map" that despite its playful surrealism makes perfect sense.
Marfa Myths Diary 2018, Part Two
“Eat, sleep, dub, repeat,” Marie sang, and the crowd sang back. This is Part Two of a two-part dispatch on this year's Marfa Myths.
Marfa Myths Diary 2018, Part One
One of the best things about any music festival is seeing a show by someone you know nothing about who blows you away. This is Myths' strength.
Temple Tour: Sugar Land
A few decades of drab and rapacious suburban planning cannot suppress beauty forever. Let’s take a tour of three of the gems of Sugar Land.
Sarah Fox: “Kitty Fisher & the Arañitas”
Sarah Fox’s multi-media works are simultaneously unsettling, tactile and elusive, suggesting a childlike fairytale ambience and dark sexual symbolism.
Hair
A poem written by Neil Fauerso in 2003, when he was 21. It was recently included in the two-person show 'Joey Fauerso & Neil Fauerso: Dig Three Tunnels' at Testsite in Austin.
“Reclaimed” at SPACE, Linda Pace Foundation
The works throughout this show are often devastating, but also resolutely hopeful.
Stuart Hyatt and Heather Scott Peterson Turn on the Lights
These two shows do not feel 'contemporary' but rather timeless, pondering old things that answer through existing.
Robert Jackson Harrington: “All on the Line” at Dirty Dark Place
It’s exciting to see the conventions of exhibiting and selling art messed with with such a confident swagger.
Find your Emerald Vision
Late capitalism has forced many of us to live in a continuous desperation, ever reacting and improvising. You must look to the sky and see which stars beguile you.
M12: Center Pivot at Sala Diaz
In the sparseness of rural living, the vacancy can be a refuge for one’s eccentricities. There are portals everywhere.
Studio Sounds, Best of 2017
One of the main coping mechanisms I’ve had for this year of rage and despair is listening to this music in my studio. I hope you can find some time to give these a spin in your studios wherever and whatever they may be.
Richard Armendariz at Ruiz-Healy
The way culture engraves itself on you is the haunting core of Richard Armendariz’s show.
Tierra. Sangre. Oro. at Ballroom Marfa
The central themes of the show are shimmering and elusive, like sunlight on a river.
Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Martha Wilson, and Heyd Fontenot at Artpace
Taken together, the three solo shows are concerned with performance. You may never stop acting, but sometimes you can see the stage.
The World of Zhang
Zhang has an effortless fluency with surrealism; his humor and creativity collide into a frisson of dark wonder.
