It’s easy to overlook people being killed in state-sanctioned executions when they are just numbers on a page. It’s much harder to ignore the system when you humanize an inmate and grasp him or her as an individual.
Brandon Zech
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In Starwars’ work, you get exactly what you’d expect from a Laurel, Mississippi-based artist: melting ice cream cones, gators, wood-paneled interiors, and banjo playing goats.
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The artists in 'Daydreams and Other Monsters' turn their social critique back onto us to expose the demons lurking within our society.
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Review
Why this Year’s Galveston Artist Residency Exhibition is Different
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechFor three artists so deeply tapped into the cultural consciousness to collectively experience an event as monumental as the election of Donald Trump, bonding and the sharing of a common sense of urgency seems inevitable.
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Review
Andres Serrano at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechWhile Serrano’s photos didn’t have the impact I expected, in the end, they forced me to rethink torture overall—by looking at the fake, I had to confront the real.
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You can only resist something worthy of resisting.
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Garth Weiser’s show at The Contemporary Austin made me angry.
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Livestreaming can be inherently political in this day and age because our bodies are the most political subject of all.
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This is the first post in a series of zine roundups where I pull some zines from my library—some old, some new, some from Texas and some from abroad—and give you the lowdown on who made them and what they’re about.
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Louise Hopkins Underwood, the namesake and co-founder of Lubbock’s Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA), passed away yesterday, March 7th, at the age of 97. In addition to being a…
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While March 8th is celebrated annually as International Women’s Day, this year’s observance is markedly different. The organizers of January’s Women’s March have declared March 8th “A Day Without a Woman”…
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Review
Not Just Naked People: Experimental Action Performance Art Festival in Houston
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechExA filled a niche that Houston has a long history of but has recently lacked: a strong presentation of young and subversive performance art.
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Some thoughts on a few current shows.
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Some Inauguration Day Wisdom from Pussy Riot, from their recent Texas Visit
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech"If Trump will be the next president of the United States, which I hope will not happen, the situation in your country will be pretty much close to ours, I think."
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Lubbock-based artist Andrew Martin has found a way to lean in to our society’s obsession with personalized viewing experiences. His exhibition, observer effect, on view at Redbud Gallery in Houston,…
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Review
Capitalist Consumption: the Institute for New Feeling at Ballroom Marfa
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechIt’s hard to replicate a personalized online shopping experience in a white-walled gallery.
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With large-scale immersive experiences, the devil is in the details—you don’t want to be jarred out of your festival bliss by the myriad things that either don’t work or are victims of organizational neglect.
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I was more exhausted after one day of art viewing in Miami than I was after a full five days at Disney.
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Art can only compete so much with the space it occupies, which is why galleries are clean white cubes without distraction and ornamentation.
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Art-world press releases are their own special hell. Let's explore.