In this show, Jabari imagines that various persons from African-American history have become mythologized and associated with constellations.
Robert Boyd
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The Media Center at Rice University has shown thousands of movies to generations. On June 4, it screened its last movie ever. I was there.
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Renner, like Tinguely, not only makes use of cast-off materials; he loves them.
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"I have always loved fantasy. I create images of things I want to see — or do not want to see."
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Heinlein’s sculptural objects are like Ellsworth Kellys in space.
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About halfway through every painting class with Sullivan, we’d stop for a hot chocolate. They were some of the most enjoyable hours of my life.
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While nothing is happening — a group of people are waiting for something — time is passing. A narrative is therefore implied.
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When confronted by an artist like Newsum, whose work is filled with deep, personal magic, it seems miraculous that this nice, mild-mannered professor has produced it all.
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"To me, artists would play a central role in helping to create a new kind of aspirational society."
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They were exceptional artists and were a community of friends, and that seems like reason enough to put together this show.
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'Trigger Town' is a series of huge eyeball kicks.
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The whole show is a good inside joke about what painting and sculpture are.
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Review
Sharp by Havel+Ruck in Houston (and the specter of gentrification)
by Robert Boydby Robert BoydWhat is the burden of doing art installations in the suburbs?
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Honestly, we have no idea what any of this means.
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When I heard about this show, I thought it strange that an important American artist is having her retrospective at such an out-of-the-way location. But UHCL once played unexpected part in the history of feminist art.
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It’s reasonable to ask if ILYB wasn’t just a bunch of fun-loving party animals jamming together.
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Given the drop in the price of oil, 2017 and 2018 may be key years for the survival of Houston’s art institutions.
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Matagorda Bay was like a giant, naturally formed James Turrell. It doesn't seem all that strange that someone living here would start to see things.
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A lot of prints I see these days are quite genteel and pleasant. Printmaking has evolved into a rather polite art form. But this wasn’t always the case—look at Minotauromachy, on…
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Forrest Bess (1911-1977) lived a hermit’s life in a cabin in Chinquapin, Texas. In the catalog for the exhibit Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible, Robert Gober writes, “Forrest Bess lived a life…