Part 1 was about the sheer supersized blue chip hype of Frieze. Pulse was less Six Flags and more neighborhood pizza parlor. Here’s some of the work for your pleasure and critique.
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Dallas Can Sleep Well Tonight Under the Bright Lights of the Flying Horse
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentIt was iffy for a while because of a neon glass shortage, but a few hours ago, Dallas city officials were told that the Pegasus sign atop the Magnolia Hotel…
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Summertime is officially here, which means it’s high season for seaweed at Galveston beaches. While most beachgoers and tourists aren’t so fond of the stinky, crunchy vegetation that can take…
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The exhilaration of a Turrell installation can be addictive, and the retrospective promises the ultimate fix, but seeing many of the artist's works together has the surprising effect of diminishing rather than enhancing their force.
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MFAH Acquires Über-Collection of Photo Books: The Heiting Collection
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWhen Anne Wilkes Tucker was named “America’s Best Curator” by Time Magazine in 2001, that was before she helped the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2002 and 2004 to…
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Senator Wendy Davis, Marina Abramovic, and the Art of the Filibuster
by Joy Harrisby Joy Harris 3 commentsBut aside from a ridiculous ability to avoid peeing on themselves, how are Senator Davis and Marina Abramovic connected and what can we learn from their inspiring stubbornness?
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MASS gallery is starting a new summer residency program called Hotbox, turning over its gallery space to three artists to use as a working studio for five weeks. Each…
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Nothing But Blue Skies From Now On: Upcoming Light Piece in Austin Completes James Turrell Road Trip Plans
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentWhen James Turrell: The Light Inside closes at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in late September, Houstonians won’t have to go into withdrawal because they know (or will learn…
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Lucy Kirkman: Library of Babel at That That
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 1 commentClose to thirty dexterous, expertly rendered book pages painted on shimmery linen or transparent silk are a puzzling compendium of little known facts.
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Historic Modernist Home Demolished in Ft. Worth, Fingers Start Pointing
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 1 commentLast Friday, demolition began on the Ruth Carter Stevenson home, an award-winning house of mid-century design at 1200 Broad Avenue in Fort Worth. The demolition began just as preservationists started…
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Jenny Moore, associate curator at the New Museum, has been appointed the new executive director of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, replacing the previous director, Thomas Kellein, who stepped down…
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West Texas Teen Fatally Impaled by Sculpture
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentA 14-year old boy died early Saturday morning after becoming impaled on the horn of a bull statue outside of Texas Tech’s National Ranching Heritage Museum. According to the Lubbock…
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Drawn on mail between Brooklyn-based Iurato and DTFU Co-directors Justin Hunter Allen and Lucy Kirkman, the devil seems brightly pleased to be dominating even this minor bit of chaos.
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Newfangled Notions #52: Jeffrey Wheeler at G Gallery
by Emily Nicholby Emily Nichol 0 commentA West Texan stage where bemused cowboys and old yearbook photos intermingle with a robed prophet and the ghost of Pablo Picasso.
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My first impression was of beanbag chairs waiting on a factory floor, but when I walked between the pieces, they began to gyrate and hum, resembling eggs or breasts underneath padded silk bras.
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It Ain’t Heavy, It’s My Artwork: Deadline to Bring Art to Lawndale This Week
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentOne of the few open-call exhibitions of its size still juried from actual work, The Big Show at Lawndale Art Center will be accepting entries this Wednesday (11AM – 7PM)…
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The Mission, a Chicago gallery that features contemporary Latin American art, will open a new Houston location in the 4411 Montrose complex. In October, The Mission will join the…
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How to Cure World Blindness: An Interview with Joel Ross and Jason Creps
by Caroline Koebel 0 commentCaroline Koebel talks with the duo whose recent show provoked a cinderblock through an Austin gallery's window.
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Both artists are consciously flippant in their grandiosity—despite an interest in simulacra, photorealism, and op-art, the crux of Elrod's work is its archaic presentation as grand painting.
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Bunny Update: Artist and Future Plans for Playboy Marfa Revealed
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 4 commentsWhen the intended installation of a giant, neon Playboy bunny sculpture outside of Marfa was first discovered and revealed by the Big Bend Sentinel, it caused much curiosity. The sketches…