I suppose Elaine Wolff should be forgiven for proclaiming in a recent review that Daniel Saldaña’s scultpures are "post-contemporary in another key way: They’re unmistakably narrative." And also for pitting…
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DISCLAIMER: You know the drill, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Last week I went to the Station Museum of Contemporary Art where I met the clumsiest man alive, Carlos Runcie-Tanaka. …
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Tonight was the opening of the Arthouse charity auction at Dunn and Brown Gallery . The walls were peppered with hundreds of tiny 5×7 artworks, all lined up in three…
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When I finished my undergraduate degree in art, I was flying high with excitement. After Graduate school, I was torn apart, dejected … but still highly motivated. There has been…
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I started painting late in the game — it was my fifth and last year at the University of Houston and I already had a job at the new Penzoil…
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As I was driving to The Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum yesterday in my 1997 Subaru (restored, for all intents and purposes, faithfully and lovingly by mis amigos at Go…
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I studied film at Northwestern University in the early ‘90s, and my first screenwriting teacher was a semi-embittersweetened morsel of a countercultural retiree who encouraged all of us to create…
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DISCLAIMER! This is not a review, this is one part truth, two parts lie. I live in the Heights. Redbud, G Gallery and Nauhaus Gallery are within walking distance, or…
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Around Christmas time of 1988, in the middle of my white, clean and neat senior year at Westlake High School, I discovered the first Fugazi EP at The Sound Exchange…
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DISCLAIMER! This is not a review, really, I swear it isn’t, o.k., I lied Skydive, and Lawndale Art Center. Last week, as five of you may have noticed, I did…
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Just recently, Domy Books – Lower East Austin (?)’s newest and most entertaining playground to us grown-up kids that revel in fanzines, dirty pictures, in-depth chronicles of what starched shirts…
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Jerry Saltz has been using Facebook for a while now, and gaining some well-deserved press. His posts range from simple comments/questions to more recently his major commentary on the…
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Fluent-Collaborative’s Testsite 09.3 – Common Sense Sheila Pepe & Elizabeth Dunbar May 31st – July 5th Question: Is there anything that a lifelong lover of rock and…
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Recently, a young Dallas reporter was interviewing me in my gallery and asked, “Is there anything you’d like to say to the collectors in the face of this recession?” At…
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Part 2 of 2: Chris Jagers interviews Dean Terry in regard to new mobile technologies. Art making is usually thought of as Intimate. Mobile devices are usually thought of…
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Ethan Azarian – Paintings On the walls of The Blue Dahlia Bistro Through June Excuse the brief detour into the culinary arts, dear reader, as it must…
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Christopher Knight is an idiot. I recently read his blog post on the LA Times website in which he criticizes Michelle Obama and the White House Office of Media Affairs…
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It is the eve of the public opening of La Biennale di Venezia, I am making my way to San Marco from party to party through the aqua alta (high…
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Workers are managing to unload large art-type crates from barges at the Giardini in Venezia. The Biennale is still two weeks away so I am heading to the Murano Museum…
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A few days ago, an acquaintance walked up to me at an art event and asked, “Are you enjoying all your new leisure time?” I blinked, took a deep breath…