Piotr (pronounced “Peter”) Chizinski’s show Jerry-Rigged Co-Op, at Redbud Gallery successfully combines a microscopic view of white-trash culture with a lovingly crafted display of quirky commentary.
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GORDON MATTA CLARK: YOU ARE THE MEASURE, edited by Eve Sussman. Yale University Press. Catalogs can never replace the experience of seeing the exhibition, but there are some catalogs that…
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Poetry is maybe the only literary form whose intended structure (or the lack thereof) provides for an exponential increase in freedom, disorder and independence. Poetry places an emphasis on physical…
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Rebecca Holland’s new work at Barry Whistler Gallery is precious and ironic at once. The pastel colors — pink, yellow and chartreuse — of the translucent planks, square sheets, brick-o-blocks…
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Now that the dust has fully settled around this year’s Hunting Prize, it seems appropriate to have a second look at this notable art event.
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A couple of weeks ago Manhattan was thick with Texans, both touring and transplanted. On a single Thursday, I ran into Noah Simblist at Guild and Greyshkull Gallery in Soho.…
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Basim Magdy: Mud Pools and how we got ourselves to look for Bigfoot Heaven
by Rachel Cookby Rachel CookCairo-based Basim Magdy has created two giant installations both inside and outside of Okay Mountain in the most ambitious show to date for this one-year-old artists space.
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GUANTÁNAMO: Pictures from Home, Questions of Justice, conceived by Brooklyn-based photographer and installation artist Margot Herster, was inspired by her husband’s experience as a lawyer for suspected terrorists detained at…
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John Hartley makes photo-realist paintings of rusted old toys from photographs of these prettily worn objects, which the artist collects.
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A relatively new Spring tradition in Houston is the annual Media Archeology Festival presented by the Aurora Picture Show. Now in its fourth year, this festival of live electronic and…
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When I saw Michael Velliquette’s show in Chelsea, minus-one-degree chill factor winds blew outside. Inside, the collages surrounded me like hothouse flowers, as if I had entered a steamy greenhouse.
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Review
A Little Indecision: Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces
by Sean Carrollby Sean CarrollTo the average visitor to The Menil Collection, the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces must seem like an irritating joke. Wandering through what seems to be a bunch…
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The future is now in Dallas…and elsewhere on the globe. Fast Forward. Two other exhibitions in the last five years have used the same terminology as the current two-part extravaganza…
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Austin has a reputation. In his book The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida used Austin as proof that a “creative city” will attract a substantial community of artists…
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There is a lot going on in Smile Forever, your current show at Art Palace: paintings, drawings and one giant sculpture. Across the board, your subject seems to be, for…
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Michael Kimmelman commented in a recent article that we go to museums to find truth in pictures. He was referring to a group of photographs by Thomas Struth. His remark,…
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As the next guest curator to make a mark on Artpace’s residency program, I wonder if you could help me introduce you as a curator to your first Texan audience.
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Domestic bliss comes in many forms. For some, it means the ordered array of the banal elements that define our immediate surroundings. For others, it encompasses the timeless household chores…
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“Nothing escapes eventual absorption.” — Hans Haacke¹ Hans Haacke called it absorption. Others have described it in terms of recuperation or complicity.² By “it” I mean the way in which…
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Norman Bluhm, a second-generation abstract expressionist whose name is seldom bandied about, painted some of the most remarkably direct paintings of that genre at the end of his life, when…