FotoFest 2012 wraps up this weekend and it’s the last chance to see its offerings as well as those at participating spaces. Definitely make time to see Jawshing Arthur Liou’s…
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Ron Berry is the founder and director of the annual Austin performance festival Fusebox. Katie Geha (who with Sterling Allen and Travis Kent organized Files Desks Chairs for the Fusebox…
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At least one person in the crowd at the opening of John Waters’ exhibition “Neurotic” at McClain Gallery appeared to be angling to be the next Divine. Waters was in…
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…and motion matched with motion, song with song– a song that, sung by those sweet instruments, surpasses so our Muses and our Sirens as firstlight does the light that is…
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The Dallas Art Fair is back and seemed way better than last year. Here are some highlights: Conduit Gallery Dallas’ Conduit brought an interesting range of work. Charlie James…
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I’ve been meaning to write something here about film scores for a while. You know, some kind of analysis of the role of music in movies, with interesting, specific examples…
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First off, let me just say that El Rincón Social is where it’s at. It’s my answer when people talk about the glory days of Lawndale, or how underwhelming the…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part II
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischContinued from Part I… V. Reynosa, Narcolandia and sad, sad data It’s important to point out that Rigoberto Gonzalez is not a Chicano artist, though he shares a lot of…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part I
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischRigoberto Gonzalez applies Baroque technique to scenes of narcoviolence. The result isn't journalism, but epic poetry.
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In honor of the FotoFest 2012 Biennial, we’re republishing this 2008 classic from the inimitable Clint Willour… Just in in time for FotoFest‘s Meeting Place, veteran portfolio reviewer, curator and…
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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 seemingly had nothing in common…
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When Richard Serra’s drawing retrospective opened at the Menil Collection, it was SERRAPALOOZA. Throngs of people congregated at the Menil, many of us on the outside lawn in festival fashion,…
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The Chupacabrona Tour, Part 2: On South Texas Identity, or The Wild Nudes of McAllen
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischSouth Texas: vast, under appreciated, and misunderstood, Also: naked. Check it out.
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Last December, before my visit to Crystal Bridges, I wrote about the challenges of being a museum funded by Wal-Mart money and located in Bentonville, Arkansas. I had interviewed the…
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Some say that Black History month no longer needs to be celebrated. The belief is that these marginalized histories can be framed beyond the margins and understood within larger conversations…
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I have followed Glenn Ligon’s work over the past twenty years. He’s not known for his subtlety. In fact, he deliberately provokes his viewers. Given that his work examines race,…
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Vital film document, Come Back, Africa screens at the MFAH. “This film was made secretly in order to portray the true conditions of life in South Africa today. There are…
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The exhibition In the Interest of Time presents three projects by the Brooklyn collaborative Smudge Studio, comprised of artists Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse. Their primary subject is the landscape,…
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The Chupacabrona Tour, Part 1: Eisenstein in Corpus Christi, or A Fresh Eye
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischOf Soviet film theory and experimentation in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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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 in Austin (the show closes…