To our non-Houston readers: recently, a local investigative reporter has been doing a series of "exposes" about arts funding in Houston. Last night Mr. Dolcefino claimed that Houston residents "help…
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Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum currently feels more like a mini Times Square than a museum. With nearly fifty video artists represented in Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and…
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Two exhibitions by well-known Texas-based artists, Annette Lawrence and Joseph Havel, are on view at Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas. While the works of both artists are presented in…
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Perhaps in response to the never-ending story that is summer in Austin, two venues took on excessive electric bills late this season, promising escapes not only from the heat, but…
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An interesting work of art can do many things. First and foremost, it can reveal a secret about the world in a way that is both fresh and stimulating, creating…
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The newest contemporary exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art, Chocolate: A Photography Exhibition, features four artists working in two mediums: photography as the final object of display and…
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A young man in Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler’s docu-video Grand Paris Texas, part of No Room to Answer at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, explains the difference…
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Walking into FotoFest’s 1113 Vine Street building felt like entering a minimalist’s conception of a haunted house. There was an ominous drone coming from somewhere, briefly interrupted by a short,…
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Uncommon Sense at TCU’s relatively new Fort Worth Contemporary Arts joins works by three artists who all explore and/or challenge the accuracy of archiving and documenting historical events, information and…
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Even though the show’s title, Actions, is a clear reference to Joseph Beuys, John Cage came to mind when I visited William Lamson’s exhibit at Marty Walker Gallery. Lamson’s preference…
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I was born and raised in a radical, non-denominational church called The Message of the Hour Church. Its members believe that a man named William Branham was a latter-day prophet…
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As we become older, we begin to lose things. It’s common knowledge that most of us accept. We lose memories, loved ones, keys. Yet even amid the vast expanse of…
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As we become older, we begin to lose things. It’s common knowledge that most of us accept. We lose memories, loved ones, keys. Yet even amid the vast expanse of…
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First, a preview to the preview: Sam Taylor-Wood Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston through October 5, 2008 This show doesn’t technically count as a preview, as it’s been open since early…
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Nestor Topchy has lived in Houston for about 25 years. Since 2001, he has been living on the North side on an acre compound with his wife and daughter. Upon…
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Lubbock I rolled into town around dinner time. Texas Tech’s Joe Arredondo met me at Café J, which he deemed "the only decent restaurant in town." Due to his persistent…
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The juried "New American Talent: The Twenty-Third Exhibition" (or "NAT23") at Arthouse in Austin is something like a science fair for artists. Arthouse has conducted this competition/experiment 22 times before.…
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The work in Sehnsucht (Aspiration), currently showing at Light & Sie Gallery in Dallas, is at once challenging and accessible; vaguely inscrutable in its occasional abstraction and seemingly easy in…
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It was appropriate that George Michael played a live concert at the American Center in Dallas the day after Glasstire’s interview with Tim Noble and Sue Webster. Post-YBA Brit artists…
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Review
“Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy” at the DMA
by John Devineby John DevineIt is tempting to view the two lives celebrated in Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, organized by the Williams College Museum of Art…