Other than the time I was stabbed in the face with a spear by my brother, or the other time when he threw me head first into the TV set…
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It’s always a risky proposition to recommend shows before they open, but what the hell… Austin New Art in Austin Austin Museum of Art February 15 – May 11, 2008…
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In art, there are all kinds of things you should read, like that dusty copy of Baudrillard sitting on your nightstand. Unfortunately there are no French philosophers on Glasstire’s staff,…
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The air surrounding Maccarone Gallery booth at Art Basel Miami Beach is heavy with the smell of chocolate. Look! Chocolate holiday Santas…clasping…butt plugs? Paul McCarthy’s Santa with Butt Plug by…
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One’s first impression of Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone, organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, is that there are too many paintings. The…
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How shocking! I once made a piece of art that was so bad that when it was first exhibited, all the cows mooed, all the children ran wild in the…
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Could an entire generation be psychically altered by media images of violence and war? By computer technology and its virtual capabilities? What about the unsparing assault of advertising? Last Riot…
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Carole Ann Klonarides and Michael Smith have been friends since collaborating on his videotape and installation, It Starts At Home. Klonarides interviewed Mike over barbecue at Meyer’s Elgin Smokehouse while…
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This is getting written a week or so after the event rather than being the sort of on-the-spot reporting it probably should be, but I want to submit some thoughts…
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Devendra Banhart‘s creative aesthetic pervades his entire existence. It blankets every note from his guitar, every warble and billowing vibrato of his voice, every mark of his pen, every inch…
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I recently sat down with Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, to discuss (among other things) Declaring Space, his revelatory exhibition of four artists…
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Balloons may not be the first things that come to mind when planning décor for a tony event, but they were an obvious choice for art collector Jeanne Klein. Klein…
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The worst piece of art I’ve ever made is also one of the most important pieces of art I’ve ever made. It sits at the very top of an eight-foot…
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There are two places in Houston where you can find public images of Tom of Finland, the irreverent patriarch of homoerotic illustrations (although ‘daddy’ may be more apropos). His work…
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I don’t know Bruce Nauman, but I have spent long and productive hours getting to know him in absentia via the many poses he strikes in his sculptures, videos, drawings,…
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Margo Handwerker: "El Soñador Elegante" derives from Miguel de Cervantes’s character Don Quixote of Don Quixote de la Mancha. How many people do you think have read Don Quixote? David…
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Stuart Allen ’s eponymous show this summer at Finesilver in San Antonio featured eight kites made from simple materials. Allen creates his kites’ frameworks from fine woods, stainless steel and…
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Shortly after "Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art" opened at the Austin Museum of Art (AMOA), I kept hearing about a taxidermic dog with wooden legs. Intrigue led to…
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Crafting the Anti-Biennial: Curator Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro’s “Third Bank of the River”
by Miranda Lashby Miranda LashIn 2006 Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, curator of Latin American art at the Blanton Museum of Art, was selected to be chief curator for the sixth Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil.…
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Former San Antonio based, now Houston based Augusto Di Stefano uses deliberate marks on canvas and paper to create images that evoke emotional and physical boundaries. He sprays each painting…