"After you’ve seen enough of my selfies, I become redundant and blurry, like telephone poles by the highway."
Gene Fowler
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Curtis may have achieved the impossible, but the project broke him physically, mentally, and romantically.
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This current show in Austin gathers wisps and glimmers of the songster’s fugitive saga and summarizes recent discoveries, and loving gestures of homage.
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"Far from being the idle doodling of ancient peoples, the rock art of the Lower Pecos was part of a living landscape that provided food, shelter, and a connection with the spirit world.”
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The Amon Carter's exhibition of the ongoing collaboration between Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo is designed to represent a journey.
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The show is actually a sprawling four-parter, and it expands our own outer-space references with its DIY explorations of stepping away from terra firma and venturing into the atmosphere and beyond.
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As Above So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930
by Gene Fowlerby Gene FowlerWhat makes these fellows odd? And why are they proclaiming it so publicly? Why are they organizing like this? Exactly how odd are they?
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At some point in his long, productive life the artist Frank Reaugh (1860-1945) appraised his youthful self as “the most awkward fellow you ever saw.” A 1924 photograph of Reaugh…
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When I left the Blaffer, I felt I could have watched each piece another 17 times, especially the last two, and still felt enlivened and refreshed.
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Functionating on Time Station Earth with Esther Pearl Watson
by Gene Fowlerby Gene FowlerDespite the instability caused by her father's obsession with space travel, most of the narratives in Watson's paintings are imbued with a sweetness of memory
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The origins of Houston performance art: Oofty Goofty and Jim Pirtle
by Gene Fowlerby Gene FowlerIn 1897, Oofty wolfed down an entire quail in one sitting each night for 30 days, finishing off each bird by downing eight glasses of beer using a spoon and smoking a cigar in less than six minutes.
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Evett had his first solo exhibition at Laguna Gloria in Austin in 1956. His current show, at Hunt Gallery in San Antonio, runs through April 30.