Two futuristic paintings by Ron Davis I saw at New Gallery last month, but didn't write about. As usual, Thom Andreola has a knack for dredging up once well respected…
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Just came back from the Rauschenberg Cardboards, brimming with enthusiasm. You can forget what really good art is if you haven't seen any in a while, and this show has…
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Rainey alerted me to Tyler Green's blog challenge: choose five paintings that would make good movies. Pretty dumb, huh? Well, you'd think different if you had to fill up blog…
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I saw two tedious shows on Saturday- the first was Anthony Thomas Shumate's "The Pump That Jack Used" at the new Art League. Actually, it's the old Art League, as…
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The best of Demetrius Oliver's photos, Seminole (in which he drapes bacon over his head) is growing on me, it's so tactile. The pencil studded Afro, and the toy boxcars…
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Saw the Artadia Reprise show at Diverseworks. Last night, when Francesca got home from the opening, she said that Katy Heinlein said that the show actually made her proud to…
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Arturo Palacios was in town and stopped by my construction project (the OPTICAL building near 11th & Studewood) to chat up the Texas Biennial in Austin. When he called, I…
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Alan Ebnother's green paintings at Wade Wilson gallery are nice enough; roughly square pieces of stretched linen with monochrome green paint toweled onto them with the decorative wooliness of cake…
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A couple days ago I clipped a newspaper story about the world's largest giant squid, just caught off Antarctica. I put it next to the story I clipped a few…
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Somebody in the back of the car asked me what I thought of the Sam Gilliam retrospective at the CAM. Eyes never leaving the road, I said, "resolutely second-rate." That…
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Dee Mitchell just called From Dallas; after 23 years he's cashed out the dusty stock option Half Price Books gave him in in the early 80's, before anyone knew it…
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At $85 the catalog for the Jan van Huysum show at the MFAH seemed out of reach, but why buy the catalog when you can abuse your press credentials and…
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Complex and pretentious as its title, The Possibility of Men and the River Shallows delivers on a lot of its ambitious promises. Wood, clothes, clay, carpet, Plex, plants, tar and…
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At luchtime last Saturday I found my way to went to the second floor lobby of the HCC administration building for the public viewing of the proposals for the new…
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Andrea Bianconi's show at Barbara Davis Gallery was originally intended for a venue in Germany. Plans fell through, and it ended up here, instead. Bringing western imagery to Texas is…
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Crossover marketing works. Here I am in the Montrose Art Monolith, visiting Barbara Davis Gallery, Anya Tish, and Joan Wich, because I’m hungry, and they’ve got a cafe. TART. Places…
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On my way to the MFAH I stopped, as I often do, at the Jung Center. Their lobby hosts art shows in tune with their cosmic mission that are almost…
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The drawings themselves are as fascinating as big drawings on old nautical charts can be. Maybe better, for Schnabel's offhand addition of oily strokes and blots makes me more curious…
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I spent last weekend getting together my art proposal for the new Metro rail/bus stops. I've got to admit Sara Kellner, former Director of Diverseworks and now Public Art Manager…
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I spent last weekend getting together my art proposal for the new Metro rail/bus stops. I've got to admit Sara Kellner, former Director of Diverseworks and now Public Art Manager…