Texas-born artist Elvira Clayton lives and practices in Harlem, New York. Clayton’s work, multi-layered and multi-medium, might be reminiscent of elaborate Mexican or Haitian altars to the dead. The artist,…
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Jonathan Monk, a British-born artist who lives in Berlin, has created a shrine to fast cars and cheap gas in the Rew-Shay Hood Project Part II at Artpace in San…
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With the extension of the Riverwalk, San Antonio got some new high-visibility public artworks by people like Bill Fontana, Donald Lipski, and Stuart Allen. The city has also invested in…
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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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For those of you who are just starting out as artists, the opening night reception of your exhibition can be a bit daunting. What do you wear? How do you…
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At first glance, Rudolf de Crignis’ paintings at Lawrence Markey look like monochrome fields, shades of pure blue and gray applied with minimalist austerity. But of course minimalists by and…
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Lucas Johnson: Drawings 1971-1990 at Moody Gallery presents the artist’s mid-career works, lyrical renderings of the natural environment Johnson immersed himself in before his untimely passing in 2002. The pen-and-ink…
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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…
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Plants, plants and more plants surround Bert L. Long Jr.ʼs Houston studio and home. The artist’s edenic lot also boasts a thriving vegetable garden. Located in Houston’s historic Fifth Ward,…
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You don’t view a Marlene Dumas painting; you are confronted by it. Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave, her first North American mid-career survey (organized by MOCA LA in association…
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TEN THINGS ABOUT BEING A FRENCH ARTIST IN HOUSTON Best or worst, it all depends on the observer. And in no particular order: • If you mention Karl Marx during…
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I went to my cardiologist the other day and, like many times before, she put a small receiver over the raised square area above my heart and waited for a…
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Richard Patterson is a transplant to Dallas from Great Britain. Twenty years ago, he participated in the famous Freeze show, organized by Damian Hirst at London’s Surrey Docks – an…
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Six Years Later presents two separate shows by Matt Hanner and Stephen Lapthisophon. The artists had previously collaborated on a one-night-only installation at Unit B Gallery when it was still…
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Houston artist Virgil Grotfeldt died on February 23, 2009 after a sixteen-year battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. An exhibition of his last works, Virgil Grotfeldt, 274296, is…
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A gargantuan pink creature spews out of the mouth of a mounted deer head, filling the space of a country living room. A candy jar, lamp, chair and couch in…
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Austin-based artist Steve Brudniak is a renaissance wonder of creativity, charm and wit. Over the years, Brudniak has successfully had his hands in sculpture, design, performance, carpentry and radio announcing,…
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From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany at the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University honors the 15th anniversary of SMU professor P. Gregory Warden’s landmark archaeological…