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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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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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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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…
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Walking into the Hudson (Show) Room of ArtPace one sees 36 somewhat randomly hung 15 x 13 inch panels of handmade paper.
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I once heard a segment on the NPR radio program This American Life, in which a guy asked his friends which superpower they would want given two choices: invisibility, or…
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Last Friday night a friend and I ventured out into the single digits for Boston’s unusually depressing “First Friday” gallery night. Only a few days earlier, I had been lounging…
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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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Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Most collection shows chart a succession of iconic masterpieces. Selected by dint of size or reputation, they enforce a sort of cultural Stations of the Cross, with individual acts of…
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Anna Gaskell: half life is best experienced alone no one else in the room, no guards chatting amongst themselves in the hall, nothing to interrupt the mysterious air of…
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In this most recent installment of the ArtPace residency program, curator Francesco Bonami has chosen three emerging artists whose works explore the relation between sensory perception and material reality.
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There’s the “abstract painting” of the art world, and then there’s the “abstract painting” of the American popular imagination. Although critical attention focuses on the former, it’s the latter that…
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H. C. Westermann’s life was a flamboyant bundle of contradictions, and his art is full of his life. “Every drawing I make is a portrait,” he said, and his imagination…
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Satyrs and Martyrs on Hallowed Ground, (or, How Many Babydolls can Mr. Biscuit Nail to a Cross?)
by Alana Keresby Alana KeresWalking through Hallowed Ground, Gallery Lombardi‘s latest group show, is a little like running your radio up the dial as you cruise through a big city. Between static and blips…