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Surface Tension, the current show at MASS Gallery, is a quiet and considered study of the work of three artists. The photography and paper works [...]

Carl Hammoud’s current exhibition of paintings and drawings at Lora Reynolds Gallery feels cool and empty. The works are also nearly impeccably installed. I recently [...]

Last week’s episode of “GIRLS” showed Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah Horvath, engaging in a topless round of ping pong with Joshua, a recently separated 42-year-old [...]

Last Saturday night I went to a private residence in Travis Heights to see the New Music Co-op‘s performance of Brent Fariss‘ Unitard, a piece [...]

Who doesn’t love to receive art books around the holidays? Full of inspiration and far more special than your average paperback, the following books will [...]

If not completely exhausting, the end of each semester can be pretty gratifying. The students are relieved to be finished, turning in their last papers [...]

By the time this is published the new curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum may have been announced. I was told [...]

I’ve long thought of clay as a very specific medium. By “medium specific” I’m recalling the critic Clement Greenberg’s term as he defined it in [...]

I ran around E.A.S.T. Sunday afternoon, the last day of the annual Austin arts festival. It was a sunny and beautiful day–perfect for wandering about [...]

I ended my weekend by going to see the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie The Master. The film is broadly about a Scientology-like group in [...]

  1. New York in the fall is ridiculously seductive. I visited this past weekend and the weather was perfect–blue skies, cool breezes. I walked all [...]

There’s been a lot of writing on John Cage in the last week in preparation for today, what would have been his 100th birthday. You [...]

With the changing of the seasons comes too the changing of the art climate. In the past year in Austin we’ve seen a flourishing of [...]

Mikaylah Bowman‘s recent series of photographs reminds me of the 17th century Dutch still-life tradition, paintings that depict neatly arranged flowers, their edges crisp with [...]

Manscape: Man as Subject and Object opened last night at Lora Reynolds Gallery. The group photography and video show is curated by Christopher Eamon and [...]

The surfaces of Ben Brandt‘s sculptures are covered in gray. The objects look like they’re a thousand years old, as if they’d just been pulled [...]

A friend and I used to have an ongoing joke about writing a blog titled Double Feature. In this fantasy blog we’d review films that [...]

Disambiguation/Red Space Gallery/Closes February 12th   Happened There are a lot of great images in Disambiguation, an exhibition currently on display at Red Space Gallery [...]

End of year lists allow a critic to consider the past year and tally up the most exciting cultural moments. I decided to take a [...]

When we were driving to Marfa there was a shift in the landscape. We entered the desert. “It’s like we’re on Mars,” I said and [...]