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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“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…
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The San Antonio art scene has always intrigued me. As a longtime denizen of Houston, I realize that Houston has a lot to offer in the way of art: a…
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After recently noticing a listing on Glasstire for the exhibition Samuel Colt: Arms, Art, and Invention at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, I half-jokingly suggested to the editors of…
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When you first walk through Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within, curated by Sarah L. Eckhardt and currently on view at the Menil Collection, it may not be obvious why…
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In his poem Neo-HooDoo Manifesto, published in 1969, poet, novelist and essayist Ishmael Reed described Neo-HooDoo as “a ‘Lost American Church’ updated.” It can be useful to consider the institution…
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Robert Wilhite’s current show at Barry Whistler Gallery is comprised of a single sculpture: The Bomb (2008), a true to scale representation of the Fat Man, the plutonium bomb which…
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“All Power to the People!” Emory Douglas created the Black Panthers‘ newspaper illustrations and posters in the 60s and 70s. Grenade carrying, afro-ed guerillas, women holding machetes and babies, raised…
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Honestly? My first thought when I saw Mark Fox Mark Fox installing Dust as this year’s Summer Window Series at the Rice University Art Gallery? Too bad the Pradafication (you…
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A lifetime: what does it amount to? The body moves here, the body moves there, it encounters other bodies, perhaps even producing a couple more. Years scroll by and fin,…
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Please Never Say That Again or I Am Going to Have to Kill You Every one of us who has ever entered a juried show or had an exhibition or…
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What appears to be an incongruous two-person exhibition at Lora Reynolds Gallery is really the product of one mentally ambidextrous artist. The hyper-realist portraiture and the cartoon about the good…
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A few years back a heavy package arrived at my door, addressed to my then-husband. Inside was a bronze statue of a realistically rendered cowboy riding a bucking bronco. Perfectly…
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Arriving at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, I walked in behind a couple hundred hootin’ and hollerin’ high school students, let loose on the town. Their minders barked…
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For the Fuse Box Collaboration Project, curators Ron Berry and Jade Walker set up artists on what amounted to a ten-day blind date. They paired five Austin-based artists with five…
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I moved to Houston from Denton for graduate school with a copy of Baudrillard’s Symbolic Exchange and Death under one arm, The Routledge Cultural Studies Reader under the other, and…
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Ali Fitzgerald – Swan School; The Matriculation Art Palace April 18 – June 7, 2008 Depictions of adolescent angst can be powerful—think The Catcher in the Rye. But in the…
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Some might think the J.M.W. Turner retrospective is too much of a good thing. Organized by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the…