British artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are known as much for their beautiful tessellated abstract paintings as their staunch defense of them. Their current show, Suspicious Utopias, at Fort…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part II
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischContinued from Part I… V. Reynosa, Narcolandia and sad, sad data It’s important to point out that Rigoberto Gonzalez is not a Chicano artist, though he shares a lot of…
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Rigoberto Gonzalez Alonso in Harlingen and Houston: Corridos Baroccos, Part I
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischRigoberto Gonzalez applies Baroque technique to scenes of narcoviolence. The result isn't journalism, but epic poetry.
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Fort Worth Contemporary Art’s exhibit of Angus Fairhurst’s bronze gorilla sculpture entitled A Couple of Differences Between Thinking and Feeling pays homage to the YBA artist who tragically died in…
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All Together Now: Collaborators Confabulate in Fort Worth Tonight On The Usefulness of Creative Teamwork
This evening, a group of artists and curators known for their participation in prominent collaborative projects old and new, in Texas and elsewhere will meet to discuss their experiences at…
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This last April I attended a curators’ symposium in Austin during the Texas Biennial. It was a day-long series of panel discussions and presentations hosted by Arthouse, right around the…
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The wordless rewards at the end of Over, Under and Through: Margaret Meehan at Women and Their Work
Look. We have a problem here that creative people are learning to circumvent. The economy is awful, and while auction-house prices are staying weirdly 1%-er high, the rest of the…
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Thomas Feulmer and Christina Rees are at it again with Modern Ruin: Quick and Dirty, a second edition of their popular bank-intervention show last year, minus the economic crisis tie-in,…
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This wasn’t meant to be a column about art fairs—it was meant to be about wealth and conservatism—but art fairs are something I know and wealth and conservatism are major…
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Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 –…
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On Saturday, May 7th, 2011, Glasstire and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presented a panel in celebration of our 10th anniversary. “Regionalism in the 21st Century” featured Robert…
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I just returned from attending Modern Ruin, a great experiment organized by Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer. The two-day exhibition takes advantage of the never-used 1 million dollar WaMu…