Joshua Fischer

Charles Ray’s recent talk at the Menil was one of the most exciting talks I’ve heard in years.

For Eric Zimmerman's solo show at Art Palace in Houston, the artist's choices reverberate with and contemplate the relentless course of history.

The painting range from loose and funky, almost alien-looking collages of lawns and hedges to photorealistic snapshots that capture a particular sunny California day.

Live is mixed with staged to explore rehearsal, mimicry, and self-representation in an immersive, theatrical ambience.

Steyerl and Henrot layer and expose the internal machinery of how we produce and access visual knowledge: the green screen, computer monitor, and browser window.

The mystery is how Magritte became so ordinary.

My collection is not a commentary on or criticism of performance art itself. I do not know anything more about these performances than the single image.

Tanner's incredibly skilled oil on panel paintings at Moody Gallery each tell one of Aesop's Fables, while the Brandon hosts a fascinating look at the "Lizard Cult" of Lee Baxter Davis, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Robyn O'Neil, Georganne Deen and Gary Panter.

Magee's quirky paintings on found wood explore a personal cosmology of signs and symbols like an updated, more polished Forrest Bess.

Secor uses objects and artifacts that connote her mother's presence. Huckaby sketches more than a hundred portraits of people in his neighborhood in Fort Worth.

Entrenched in the world of pattern, Thorne's paintings mix faux bois, window shades, bricks and tiles. Vidal's tent evokes a dream of an arctic "world saturated in blue."

Wegman's hilarious slapstick conceptualism and Stine's tight, focused paintings talk about the life in the artist's studio and the simple act of inventing something.

There are thirteen major painting exhibitions currently on view in Houston. A humorous but meaningful event at The Art Guys studio cast them all in a different light.

In contrast to my recent NY posts, here is a leaner wrap-up of my trip to Los Angeles for bi-coastal balance.

Fischer makes his way though the massive Kelly retrospective and ends on a transcendent note. No more New York until spring, we promise!

Part three of Fischer's art-crammed tour of New York.

From uptown to midtown ....my art odyssey continues with visits to El Museo del Barrio, the Whitney, and the MoMA.

Halloween was a fitting time to see exhibitions with a slightly creepy, psychological edge. I squeezed as much as I possibly could into just over three days.

The Houston Cinema Arts festival has become something I look forward to every year. Combing through the upcoming schedule, I have put together a preview of my exhausting (but not…

Rios' oddly beautiful, enigmatic videos feel like a personal reckoning with an immensely complex, globalized world.