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…
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Complex and pretentious as its title, The Possibility of Men and the River Shallows delivers on a lot of its ambitious promises. It can’t be taken in all at once…
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Currently in Houston there are two exhibitions featuring some rather obscure European artists. Interestingly enough, gallery owners Sonja Roesch and Anya Tish are showcasing artists from their respective home turfs:…
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It is somewhat difficult to walk into a show entitled Artists & Cowboys Should be Friends entirely objectively. Unfortunately, this show at the University of North Texas’ Artspace gallery in…
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Black holes, the paranormal and the cosmic ether all dwell alongside the elusive and sometimes unfathomable stuff called dark matter. It’s a perfect leitmotif for a group of obscurant Japanese…
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Although the majority of the paintings in Jill Moser’s first solo show at Wade Wilson Art (for that matter, in Houston) are from a series she’s titled stills (2005), they…
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The events of 9-11 made Americans aware of their alien status in the world. We are foreigners in a world of foreigners and we are strangers to ourselves. In keeping…
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LONDON, England — Super-ultra-mega-collector-and-a-half Charles Ponzi has launched a porn site for art students to display not only their tentative and unresolved juvenile work, but also their tender, naked, more…
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Christian Pitt's art fits somewhere between the seventh-grade world of Dawn Wiener in the 1996 film Welcome to the Dollhouse and the parlor life of Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's…
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A photo is not a painting. And Brian Fridge's minimal photos are anything but minimalist. His exhibition Photography will be on display at Dunn and Brown Contemporary through February 10.
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Every summer as a kid I rode with my whole family crammed in a station wagon to New Mexico.
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December 6 — San Antonio The next two weeks will be a study in cultural dichotomies. I am set to travel from Art Basel Miami Beach directly to the 2006…