Although I already considered myself the greatest painter of the age, I never really felt confident in my ability to assemble a Whopper.
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My art is just sharing the beauty I see while I frolic through my life. I hope it makes you happy because my art is about feeling, not just seeing.
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Last week I went on safari in Grapeland, Texas. In true Texan style, I didn't get out of my car. I paid $5 and was turned loose to chase gazelles,…
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I'm sorry you were born without a sense of humor.
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Run For Your Lives!, as you might expect, is a mixture of colorful duds and time bombs. Of course, it’s difficult at this point, five years after 9/11 ushered in…
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When I lived in New York City, I heard a lot about Texas pride, but now that I'm in Houston, I keep wondering: Where is the pride in the Houston…
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And/Or Gallery is on an unbroken run of good shows this year, with since their opening in January having been, at the very least, interesting. Other spaces may be sharper…
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GT set out to uncover what is going on around the state.
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Bill Davenport: So let’s get going on this “conversation” that Rachel Cook wants us to have. You do all the work, and we’ll split the money down the middle, OK?…
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Big Gurl is the centerpiece of the exhibition Lauren Kelley: Collect Them All! Soft Brown Narratives. This 12-minute video projection features African-American Barbie-style dolls filmed in a combination of claymation…
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Daniel Bozhkov's survey exhibition at Arthouse, Cantata for Twelve Choirs and Several Salamanders, made me feel as if I'd escaped down Alice's rabbit hole for the afternoon. I heard his…
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When Terrie received a joint invitation from the governmental arts agencies of Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark to make a research trip, I quickly cashed in my frequent flier account…
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To call upon “animal spirits” is to invoke the irrational and uncontained. John Maynard Keynes, economist and philosophical forebear of the welfare state, renewed the term in the 20th century…
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Food is the essential underpinning to looking at art, not only for the nutritional requirements it satisfies, but also for the time it allows for discussion and digestion of what…
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If there was ever a show you need to see in person, it's Courbet: Birth of the Modern Landscape at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gustave Courbet's landscapes and…
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They could be sister cities, Shanghai and Houston. Steamy weather provides a languid backdrop for a Jetson-esque cityscape punctuated with noisy knots of traffic. People from elsewhere move here in…
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If, as Heraclitus pronounced centuries ago, 'you can't step into the same river twice,' then the Austin Museum of Art's recent joint exhibitions entitled Over + Over and Again +…
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Every bored divorcee or dreamy retiree who opens an art gallery to satisfy a vague spiritual longing is automatically, magically in league with the ruthless power brokers of Manhattan's art world.
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"The sooner every spark of human vitality is snuffed out, the easier our job will be."
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Simplon Pass is the narrow Alps passage between Italy and Switzerland. William Wordsworth called it “gloomy,” seeing in its depressing weather patterns and bombastic topography, the “workings of one mind,…