The vast holdings of Texas art, both historic and contemporary, that Dallas collectors Nona and Richard Barrett have put together over the last 20 years are legendary among Texas art…
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The argument can be made that the tools of postmodern technology, like digital imaging and video, have removed “the artist’s hand,” so to speak, from the final product.
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The 20th Annual Dallas Video Festival has come to an end. As usual I did not make it to as much as I intended, and the thought that I would…
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The new Melissa Miller monograph is out from the University of Texas Press, and it is quite the impressive tome – 11 x 12 inches, 177 pages, over 100 color…
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A noticeable shift in this year’s New American Talent (NAT) exhibition, at Arthouse in Austin through August, is the curator’s exacting attention to photography. Digital technology is increasing the amount…
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There is no doubt that Ron Mueck is very good at what he does. This native Australian, now London-based artist, whose work is currently on view at the Modern Art…
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Margo Handwerker interviews curator Valerie Cassel Oliver about Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art, on view at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston.
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Meredith Goldsmith, a current Critical Studies Core Fellow at the Glassell School of Art, examines two recent sculpture exhibitions in Houston: Margarita Cabrera at Finesilver Gallery, and Louise Nevelson at…
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In dreaming, faraway, Kerry Inman and Patrick Reynolds showcase five emerging Japanese artists who favor a more pensive approach to art making than their contemporaries, many of whom will be…
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Collecting is a family affair for Houston collectors Robert, Jereann and Holland Chaney, who began assembling their diverse collection of cutting-edge art over 15 years ago. Early on they developed…
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I get a fair number of invitations to previews and openings, but this is the best in sometime. I got an invitation from Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and the…
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So much has been written about the US-Mexican border, and so many stereotypes and assumptions, artistic and otherwise, have been made by people who have never been here, that the…
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Gallery owner, art collector and pop-icon partner (he is George Michael’s lover), Kenny Goss is a Nietzschean Yes-Sayer. Goss says “yes” to tomorrow and “arrivederci” to yesterday. In a recent…
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I’ve known Linda Pace since I was a little girl. I remember standing just outside her kitchen with her daughter. We were taste-testing hot sauce, and I shamelessly told Linda…
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We don’t often think of art as something that’s transplanted, yet its occasional roaming nature makes it just that. Assessing the work on the wall for what it is, for…
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Exploitation of the female body is the shared theme of work by Joy Christiansen and E-J Major recently shown at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery in Dallas.
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Sterling Allen, an Austin artist and co-founder of the gallery Okay Mountain, first came to Glasstire's attention in the Austin Museum of Art's 2005 triennial, 22 to Watch. The following…
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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…