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…
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I am not a devotee of haute couture, but I will always cross the street to see anything designed by Cristóbal Balenciaga. Mostly this means going to Paris, where fashion…
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At a recent lecture about his work at Southern Methodist University, the artist Tony Matelli made a crack declaring all public art to be corporate jewelry. He was arguing that…
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Without motors, computer-controlled video or sound, Judy Pfaff’s . . .all of the above packs more frenetic energy into the Rice Art Gallery’s suddenly small seeming space than many more…
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A wonderfully eclectic gallery sits on West Franklin Street in Waxahachie, Texas. Bringing in a variety of artists, the Webb Gallery rotates shows approximately every eight to 14 weeks. The…
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Prominently displayed at the entrance of Women and Their Work is Elaine Bradford’s name and the exhibition title, Freaks of Nurture. The words sit atop a turquoise wall covered with…
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For many Americans living north of the Rio Grande, visions of their neighbors to the south have a way of sustaining a worldview that defines the other as wild, oppressive,…
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Northpark Mall is the best mall in Dallas: the penultimate mall in the land of malls. Maybe it’s the best mall anywhere, except for, say, those gold-plated marble ones in…
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A show decidedly about Asian American art thus makes me apprehensive, so I had mixed feelings about whether to anticipate or dread the exhibition One Way or Another: Asian American…
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In the age of biennials, what makes the Texas Biennial different or necessary? I wondered how we got in this mess of biennials in the first place. All roads lead…
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Rita Gonzalez sits down with Adrian Esparza to interview him about his work. Esparza will be included in an upcoming exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art entitled…
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If we tell stories to help us make sense of the world, then right now the world must not make much sense because we seem to need a lot of…
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The TX landscape, its inhabitants and its geographical location have inspired two widely disparate artistic endeavors in the newest offering at The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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San Antonio artist Bettie Ward collaborated with a family of artisans in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, to create many of the works from the narrative embroidery series entitled The…