I don’t know Bruce Nauman, but I have spent long and productive hours getting to know him in absentia via the many poses he strikes in his sculptures, videos, drawings,…
Christopher French
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Columbian artist Luis Fernando Roldán’s title for his latest suite of drawings at Sicardi Gallery is Sueños [Sleep], which suggests a correspondence between the insistent materiality of paper and more…
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Collecting is a family affair for Houston collectors Robert, Jereann and Holland Chaney, who began assembling their diverse collection of cutting-edge art over 15 years ago. Early on they developed…
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I am not a devotee of haute couture, but I will always cross the street to see anything designed by Cristóbal Balenciaga. Mostly this means going to Paris, where fashion…
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I own three art dictionaries, references published in the late 1980s by such reputable houses as Thames and Hudson, Penguin and Random House. Each has been rendered largely useless by…
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Over the course of a career spanning 30 years, James Drake has worked on and off the wall in mediums as diverse as welded steel, video and photography, always relying…
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Big Gurl is the centerpiece of the exhibition Lauren Kelley: Collect Them All! Soft Brown Narratives. This 12-minute video projection features African-American Barbie-style dolls filmed in a combination of claymation…
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A central part of the Chinati Foundation is the permanent installation of 23 John Chamberlain welded assemblages of smashed automobile parts. Created from 1972 to 1982 and housed like a…
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Representation is a process of enumeration, a series of descriptions of people and things that seeks to establish a coherent narrative or a sense of place. The centeredness or compositional…
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One of the most provocative works in the current Fotofest biennial uses the medium of photography — light — to sculpt a scenario detailing the impact, for good and ill,…
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Perhaps I pay too much attention to the news. Somewhere between the NSA eavesdropping revelations and the bombing of the Al-Askari Mosque I began to think that an alternate ending…
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The mouth is an orifice that features prominently in Mel Chin’s work. Viewers to the exhibition are greeted by an open mouth, tongue outstretched.
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Robyn O'Neil's second solo show at Inman Gallery features one very large multi-panel drawing, several medium sized works on paper, and a half-dozen works that are smallerthan a sheet of…
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If group shows are only as strong as their curatorial concept, group shows of one person’s collection succeed or fail as expressions of that collector’s knowledge and taste.
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“Madame Bovary, c’est moi,” Flaubert famously remarked.
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David McGee opens Deep Wells and Reflecting Pools, his exhibition of 27 artworks and artifacts selected from the Menil Collection’s large holdings of works of art depicting black identity, with…
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Sometimes the best test of an artist’s work is how well it translates into a foreign setting. Visiting Paris recently, I had the opportunity to see how well works by…
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When performers leave the stage artistry ends and memory commences.
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Imagine the history of modernism without Jackson Pollock, Clifford Still, Mark Rothko, or the New York School.
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was no great fan of Ronald Reagan, but the recent wall-to-wall memorials and testimonials got me thinking about what had been omitted from the weeklong farewell choreography.