The Land Heritage Institute is a fascinating organization, if difficult to pin down. Beginning in 1979, the City of San Antonio began to explore the idea of building a reservoir…
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DISCLAIMER: Not a review. Not the Truth. Not a word of it. There is an exhibition of videos at DiverseWorks , entitled something like “Now that I am by myself,”…
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Say what you will about it, but let me tell you: I freaking love Twitter. Never before has social media allowed for such easy stalking following of so many people…
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Joe Fig interviews 24 contemporary artists (from the usual to the young) and askes them each the same questions. From "what kinds of paints do you use and special devices"…
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With dreams of a Millermatic 180 welder dancing in her head, Houston-based, Prague-born artist Hana Hillerova is pushing her signature use of mirror in a new direction; she’s learning to…
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The Venice Film Festival is still under way as I write this article. This is not the Oscars, folks! It isn’t an award ceremony but an eleven-day long fest of…
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Oh, public art. You know it, you love it. Well, that’s probably not true…you probably hate it sometimes. I’ve been thinking about the topic a lot as I prepare to…
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Many artists today rely on their computers as part of their studio practice. Whether this be Photoshop, video-editing or some other practice, there is a heavy reliance (and trust) of…
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DISCLAIMER: This has been carefully edited by Sean. This weekend I went to the Kathy Womack Gallery, located in the River Oaks Shopping Center. There is a Kathy Womack Gallery…
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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…