What is more disquieting: fear of the known, or fear of the unknown? Unfortunately, the people who can answer such a question with any authority are rarely amongst the living.
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“I don’t really care that much about ‘Beauties.’ What I really like are Talkers…. Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something.” Thus wrote Andy Warhol in THE Philosophy of…
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Lo feo de este mundo: Images of the Grotesque presents work from the extensive Latin American collection at the Blanton Museum at UT Austin.
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In Son of Sampson, Hills Snyder has taken up the gauntlet of making revolutionary art with a loaded installation of subtlety and grace.
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Nobody wants to look at serious, turgid art in the summertime. Names of exhibitions echo the breeziness of the artwork shown, and Summer Light at dBerman Gallery is no exception.
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Midnight Freedom, the title of the latest show at the Fresh-Up Club, had me thinking of a teenage boy’s ideal moment: a keg party in the woods, guys wearing baseball…
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For all their physicality, Ken Little’s newest sculptures project a fragile monumentality.
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A few years ago, a friend and I were coaxed off a Hong Kong street into a Hong Kong alley by the silhouette of a ’66 fastback: a familiar shape…
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Here’s what’s on view right now in San Antonio:
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Livefeed, an installation by the artists Jeff Shore and John Fisher on view at Houston’s Mixture Gallery, is a fairly complicated installation that combines narrative storytelling, abstract three-dimensional objects, and…
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James Rosenquist, as portrayed in the retrospective exhibited jointly at the Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is a remarkably uneven artist.
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Brad Tucker’s new work in Long Distance Lovers at Inman Gallery might be first cousin to clothes by Winona Ryder-endorsed fashion designer Marc Jacobs.
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The UBS PaineWebber collection numbers well over 800 works, and features some of the best-known artists active from the 1950s to the present.
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Jessica Halonen’s show of recent work at the UTSA Satellite Space comes from within the long tradition of art about the body (think Chris Burden’s early 70s performances or Wim…
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Monica Pierce builds a lot of history into her small abstract paintings on wood panels. You can sense if not actually see the evidence of one or two other paintings…
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Matthew Barney’s Cremaster series finale is a three-hour epic that will make you grit your teeth and drop your jaw — often in quick succession.
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Monica Pierce builds a lot of history into her small abstract paintings on wood panels.
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I saw Matthew Barney’s Guggenheim survey before I was able to take in the "A" and "B" sides of Dario Robleto’s current show at Inman Gallery.
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In her current video installation at Sala Diaz in San Antonio, Melissa Longenecker’s consumerist performance is both jarring and cathartic. The Great Wide Flourescence takes its title from the expanse…
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Harold Bloom’s landmark work The Anxiety of Influence discusses the pressure on writers to originate, rather than copy, the styles of their predecessors. Bloom argues that ‘strong” poets and writers…