In my defense, most overtly political art stinks.
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Nina Hartman is the kind of thinker who fits right into the world of Farewell Books, and her aesthetic is easily connected to her experience as a zine maker.
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Spring is here! Watch Christina, Bill and Rainey count the mushrooming student shows and catch the buzz on the art-science connection.
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The iconic 1966 image Standard Station by Ed Ruscha sets the compass at Regarding Ruscha at the McNay Art Museum.
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Maybe this is not such a strange place to look at art after all.
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Imagine replacing the giant sculpture of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, but leaving the outline of the original piece on the floor.
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Engelstein’s drawings can come off as stubborn and rigid, but give them time: soon they will warm up and start telling some pretty odd and particular stories.
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State of Museums: The Pop-In and Trip-To of The Contemporary Austin
by Allyn Westby Allyn WestI pointed my Instagram-primed iPhone up at the blocks, tilting back until the espresso I forgot I was holding dumped all over my face and collar. I blame you, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis!
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A telling image of a young Doug sitting on the bumper of a 1941 Buick Roadmaster holding his Gibson ES175: he’s already brimming with confidence and charisma — He knew he had it.
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The week's best art events in Texas, some amateur climate modeling, and a pratfall.
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Best known for his distinguished body of portraits and self-portraits, Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz has also established himself as an accomplished printmaker and public artist.
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Austin-based multimedia artist Luke Saviski's Ht/X event opens Houston's CounterCurrent 15 festival.
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Nowhere else can you make as pointed a statement about commodification, while still being so wretchedly complicit!
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This is a truly international fair. I don’t mind the low ceilings at all anymore.
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Christina Rees can't help but crow over Dallas' total art ascendancy this week; Bill Davenport, despairing in Houston, can only agree.
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French Street Artists have changed the face of urban art for everyone, giving the genre credibility and the sort of elegance that only the French can achieve.
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Together, SOFA Gallery, Ruggiero, Wick, and this exhibition embody the hope and the drawbacks of contemporary art in Austin.
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Photocollages in the ancient tradition. I wouldn't have believed there was another rabbit to be pulled out of that old hat!
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The Art World has undergone a second pop invasion—this time it’s authentic pop, and The Museum of Modern Art has slipped into a warm bath with its razor to kill itself like a Roman Senator.
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The Galveston Artist Residency made an interesting curatorial choice in pairing works with actual plants. The plants made more sense with some work than with others.