Our best guesses for Fall 2009… AUSTIN Levi Dugat & Leah DeVun: Your Heart is not a Museum Domy Books September 12th – October 22, 2009 Domy has found its…
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Hiya, Reader. Here’s how I imagine you— you are sitting in a comfortable spot in the sweet cool of your centrally air-conditioned home, drinking a mint julep Lone Star and…
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Dean Ruck and Dan Havel, two Houston-based artists, recently completed a two-part sculptural intervention called Give and Take. For the first part, the artists tackled a soon-to-be demolished house in…
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Though a plane crash ended his life prematurely at age 46, San Antonio businessman and philanthropist Tom Slick Jr. had enough adventures for several lifetimes. He founded the Southwest Foundation…
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While I like to think that popular opinion has never really held sway over my generally rabble-rousing sense of perspective, what functions as my peanut gallery – a group of…
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DISCLAIMER!!!: This is not a review, and in fact I did not know I wrote it. In 1993, shortly after Rick Lowe and some other people, who nobody seems to…
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My legion of die-hard readers – hey now, save your snickering and allow a vociferous blogger at least one fantasy, all right? – may very well remember my premiere red…
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Every Semester, Meadows School of the Arts hosts a series of talks by artists which are free to attend. These world class visitors are organized by Noah Simblist, who works…
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Fifteen days ago I saw two beautiful exhibitions at Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery: School’s Out, with photographs by Dallas-base photographer Allison V. Smith , and New Works on Paper. featuring…
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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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I’m always fascinated by how often an artist’s space resembles their art, from the space itself to the objects lying around the studio to the way its organized – or…
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The subjective mind is a slippery, squirrelly critter, y’know? Let me put it this-a-way: when broken down the barest of essence, everythang can be explained in terms of mathematics. However,…
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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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Curator Hills Snyder provides a poignant end to an era with Lonely Are the Brave at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center. Inspired by the 1962 film starring Kirk Douglas…
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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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Stepping into the gaping jaws of a jaguar, you walk downstairs into a magical grotto with dripping stalactites and a splashing waterfall. This $3 million fairytale creation by San Antonio…
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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…