This week: mixed-media lens-based works in Austin, silhouetted figures in Dallas, a group show featuring female artists and scholars in McAllen, and more.
Michael Bise
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: Michael Bise at Moody Gallery, Houston
by Glasstireby GlasstireA video tour of works by Houston-based artist Michael Bise, on view in the artist's show at Moody Gallery.
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I took my first art class, and now it’s almost as if long-dead artists were making their works before my eyes.
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Brandon Zech, Christina Rees, and Christopher Blay walk you through the Texas shows they’re most excited about seeing, in person, this fall art season.
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on a new outdoor venue in Dallas, the history of conflict through sound in Austin, and an undeniable solo show in Houston.
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The class warfare rhetoric among activist art types is hard to take seriously because it’s so often hypocritical.
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"If you are dumb and without talent going in you'll still be that way coming out. "
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"It's hard to feel bad when I still get to live in my home, but at the same time this work feels more real and a part of me than the home we live in."
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Christina Rees and Michael Bise discuss why drawing is (still) so crucial for artists.
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Look, if you don’t get it, Bell basically tells us, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid. It just means you have no aesthetic sensibility.
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What happens when, as a critic or artist, you believe the culture and the tradition from which a practice emerges is criminal, or even evil?
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Op Ed
An Incomplete Guide to Critiquing Painting in Tumultuous Times
by Michael Biseby Michael BisePeople who don’t know anything about painting should sit down, shut up, and listen to the the artists and critics who have given their lives to understanding painting.
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Op Ed
Watch Out for Painting: Supports/Surfaces with Raphael Rubinstein
by Michael Biseby Michael BiseIf painting's “very definition is in crisis,” I wanted to get to the bottom of it.
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There are better and worse ways to stage a revolution. Somehow this all feels so… familiar.
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In this historical moment in which democratic institutions around the world are are under attack, programs like the Teen Council and its exhibition feel necessary and urgent.
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The artist-critic can become a reviled creature to himself and the artists he writes about.
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When the worst of the Trump right finally join the worst of the Bernie Sanders left, I'll be in a bunker having a sardonic conversation over a glass of wine and a fancy sandwich with Bill Willis and Sarah Fisher.
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"Our jobs as artists are to paint what we come in touch with and help other people diagnose the ills of society. Once we diagnose them we can cure them."
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Artists have been blurring the lines between art and life for quite some time now, often causing viewers to make connections between the socio-political world around us and everyday reality…
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Whatever you may say about the work itself, Otero is hustling the art game for all it’s worth.