Artists who work in this maximalist vein know when a work is finished. It’s finished when there’s no more room to breathe.
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What if artists acted more like athletes?
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The San Antonio Museum of Art opens today “Highest Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the collection of Roberta and Richard Huber”. At 116 works – ranging from painting and…
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The first issue of EXU, a full-color, tabloid-like magazine created by longtime Houston-based art writer Robert Boyd, is currently on sale for a measly $3! EXU is a tabloid. EXU is…
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It says something about the anxiety level of our national moment that Ross's soothing, hypnotizing presence is a phenomenon again.
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Yesterday Jalopnik’s Jason Torchinsky posted a perceptive and funny little breakdown of car headlight design; he coined the term “Late Cold War-Era Default Car Face,” and he made an entertaining graphic to go…
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The shows: Matthew Ronay & Hilary Lloyd The venue: Blaffer Art Museum The city: Houston The date: June 3, 2016 Photographs by Sidney Mori …
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I shot this week’s Top Five video with Houston Airport System Curator Tommy Gregory. Before the shoot, he took me on a tour of the airport’s art collection. See a few of…
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Brandon Zech and guest host Tommy Gregory on curating an airport, the future of public art, and how to get a leg up on the must-see summer show. 1. Kusama:…
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The Smithers amassed a collection of remarkable breadth and depth, so rather than present a compendium of the whole collection, the exhibition wisely focuses on twelve artists who have much to teach us about creativity and the universal desire to communicate through art.
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The Kazbrella is just what we need in Texas. A complete redesign of the traditional umbrella, the Kazbrella opens inside out to keep you and your valuables dry! Watch the…
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The event: The ArtSmarter Prize The venue: Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas The city: Dallas The date: June 3
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I hope you can find some time to give these tracks spin in your studios, wherever and whatever they may be.
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The Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) is currently exhibiting the work of its 2015-2016 residency artists – Zachary Moser, Diana Puntar and Michael Waugh. Zachary Moser‘s bell responds to #allswell. It…
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This story was too good to pass up: recently, a resin statue of a gnome was stolen from Florida’s Cornell Art Museum. “Please bring the Gnome home. He is missed dearly by…
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People who advocate for “reconceptualizing personhood” by eliminating property and ownership are dangerous.
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Oh, I love him so. Here’s the Guardian link. Enjoy! https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2016/may/23/martin-creed-new-single-understanding-video-premiere
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We're interested in, and dismayed by, this notion that elitism is a bad thing—that wanting to be elite and to associate with the elite is negative.