In Hannibal, the terrible Ridley Scott-directed sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, Gary Oldman plays an antagonist named Mason Verger. Verger is a wealthy pedophile who was once a…
Neil Fauerso
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An exhortation to the world of immersive art: please take me to hell. After all, we already live there.
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Drive By
Francis & Anthony Almendárez: Navigating The Archives Within
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoThe project is the navigation of the perilous and labyrinthine archives of one’s identity and history.
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Review
New Name, New Directions: The Latin American Popular Art Gallery at San Antonio Museum of Art
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoThe phrase “Popular Art” is a small but important redefinition of the broad and nebulous category of folk art.
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We are now in the phase of Grandpa Lynch.
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One of the pleasures of the show is that you don’t have to be knowledgeable or really even have any interest in Theatre Arts or Robert Tobin’s life or collection.
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I don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s a new feeling — fear with some glimmer of the unknown, actual change like light diffusing off the bend of a mountain tunnel.
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The three shows use the tactility, dimension, and heft of their objects for narrative immersion.
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Review
Oh, Solitude: Gabriel García Márquez at the Harry Ransom Center, Austin
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoIt is fascinating to see the skeleton of such an awe-inspiring work in the form of drafts, notes, and marginalia.
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While we think we are the hero of our own movie, we're actually merely one villain of many in a rogue’s gallery that just drifts on and on, like a steadicam tracking shot.
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Alain Resnais' melancholic, rapturous depiction of a brief encounter between two married people in the scarred city of Hiroshima is a jewel of the French New Wave movement.
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Many of us think this is finally the time we will complete our Major Project. I suggest a more modest goal: watch art films you were too tired or busy to watch in the past.
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Phewwwww. This was a recommendation by a friend (thanks?) and is one of the scariest and most unsettling things I’ve ever seen.
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In this highly meta play-within-a-play, Juliette Binoche plays a famed actress returning to her breakthrough work, this time playing the older woman instead of the ingénue.
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New series: Glasstire's Neil Fauerso brings you interesting (perhaps unexpected) movie recommendations that you can stream at home.
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This show is bracingly unsparing and unsentimental.
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Preview
The Magic of Sátántangó (And It Screens This Saturday at Rice Cinema)
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoI made sure prior to the Austin screening to post on social media jokes about no one wanting to go with me, to secure that I couldn’t bail the day of, like a poser. What is the purpose of depicting such misery, especially in almost real time (sometimes in a surreal, slower than real time)?
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Review
Alchemically Linked: Cauleen Smith, Emre Hüner, and Jessica Halonen at Artpace
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoThe three shows form a remarkably detailed and cogent meditation on power, spaces, and relationships.
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One of the revelations of this exhibit is how various visual artistic movements throughout the 20th century are physically manifested and demonstrated through theater and performance.
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Reviews of current shows by Jorge Alegría, Mario Ybarra Jr., and Jennifer Ling Datchuk.