For the Fuse Box Collaboration Project, curators Ron Berry and Jade Walker set up artists on what amounted to a ten-day blind date. They paired five Austin-based artists with five…
Amanda Douberley
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If you’ve ever taken a nineteenth or twentieth-century art history class, you probably felt a little bit inundated by the parade of “-isms,” movements, and schools that generally shape how…
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There is a lot going on in Smile Forever, your current show at Art Palace: paintings, drawings and one giant sculpture. Across the board, your subject seems to be, for…
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If we tell stories to help us make sense of the world, then right now the world must not make much sense because we seem to need a lot of…
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The black box model is an apt characterization of WorkSpace, an ongoing series of exhibitions at the Blanton Museum of Art inaugurated along with its new building in April 2006.
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Peat Duggins is making drawings that read like storyboards, sculptures that seem like film props, and a video that animates part of one installation and projects it, drive-in movie style,…
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A dead-end hallway, papered with burgundy floral wallpaper, is the first thing one confronts upon entering The Gospel of Lead . Although not quite long enough to deceive viewers into…
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This year’s Chinati Foundation Open House was its eleventh since Donald Judd’s death in 1994, but you still felt like no one would bat an eye if Judd walked in,…
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Few museums maintain as strong a commitment to a single artist as the Menil Collection does to Cy Twombly.
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Druecke’s work springs from the forlorn and forgotten: photographs relegated to that shoe box under your bed; the seldom occupied picnic table in a grassy lot not quite big enough…
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“Space now is not just where things happen; things make space happen.” —Brian O’Doherty, Inside the White Cube “The icebox is full of love metered out over time. Metering is…