With only two or three inches between each work, the exhibition doesn't exactly lend itself to parsing, but it's a show about transition: from where the gallery has been to where it is going.
2014
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Forgive me, Father: I paid $20 to have my artwork in a juried exhibition with 30 other depraved artists. I did so with full free will and knowledge of my actions and know this is a mortal sin.
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Contemporary Austin Announces Finalists for Laguna Gloria Landscape Master Plan
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Contemporary Austin is wasting no time in getting its 12-acre lakeside estate ready for the future Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, for which it was…
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Social Practice Makes Perfect: PRH to Host Symposium on Artists and Community Engagement
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe term “social practice” has been getting more and more popular among artists in the past few years, although it still seems only slightly more defined (but definitely more user-friendly)…
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Houston Center for Photography Announces 2014 Fellowship Winners
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Houston Center for Photography (HCP) has announced the recipients of its 2014 fellowships. Winners will receive a $3,000 cash grant, a feature in Spot Magazine, a write-up in Fraction…
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Despite the randomness and repetitiveness, the body hair and the cheesecake, it looks like fun.
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Poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka died on Thursday at the age of 79. There are a number of in-depth obituaries chronicling Baraka’s long career, but the Gallerist’s Andrew Russeth…
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Houston Gallery May Be as Sleazy as is Rumored: Investigations Underway
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonFor the most part, good artists and good galleries have good relationships, but it is no surprise to most gallerists that there are a few disparaging rumors floating around about…
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MoMA Bought Time to Come to the Same Conclusion: Folk Art Museum Must Be Demolished
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced yesterday that its board has approved the initial details of its major building expansion project. In April, the MoMA made a similar announcement…
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San Antonio Student’s Artwork Goes Viral, Sparks Worldwide Nationalistic Bickering
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonTen days ago, 17-year-old high school senior Zak Ziebell posted an old art project on Reddit and now it’s gone viral—not just passed-around-Facebook-a-bunch-of-times viral, but picked up by newspapers and…
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After much anticipation, the Menil Collection announced the results of its café naming contest this morning. In October, the Menil threw down a challenge to name its future bungalow café…
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A tour of societal codes and cinematic translations with the outrageous philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek.
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Artpace Appoints New Nonprofit-Savvy Director of Development and Communications
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonSan Antonio’s Artpace announced that Francesca Rattray is joining its staff as the director of development and communications. The position will provide leadership, strategic direction, and management for all of…
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The vision of chaos that greets the viewer at the door strongly asserts Pruitt's unwillingness to supply more of his popular drawings without some conditions.
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Artist Don Snell died peacefully at his Georgetown home on Monday morning at the age of 91, reports his partner Ruth Roberts. “Don lived a rich life, full of fun and…
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Another Upcoming Art Trial: Trustees Ask for Big Chunk of Rauschenberg Estate
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArtist and Port Arthur native Robert Rauschenberg formed the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 1990 to promote awareness of the causes and groups close to his heart and, before he died…
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It’s not as crazy cold as it is up north, but most Texas cities will not get too far above freezing today. In the northeast China province of Harbin, though,…
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Glasstire first-responders fish valuables from the onrushing flood of Spring Art Activity across Texas!
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pant·i·soc·ra·cy (noun): a utopian community in which all rule equally On Saturday night, the Amarillo Museum of Art (AMoA) opened Open, an exhibition of absolutely every artist who wanted to…
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People look to all kinds of things to explain what and why things happen—some more methodical, others more Methodist. That’s precisely the area in which Chris Sauter’s work dwells.