We enjoyed this piece in the New Yorker about all their covers that have poked fun over the years at the socializing and art-ignoring that goes on at gallery openings.…
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"One dealer said it was a cry for help that they were exhibiting at NADA."
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Dallas artist Thor Johnson shares a surprising tale about a brazen attempted art theft of the Ritchie collection, circa 1980s, involving Belgian criminals, a helicopter, Uzis, and (VERY) armed ranch hands.
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Christina Rees and guest host Reid Robinson on artists who are Odd Fellows, a magical pairing of two Texas artists, and a San Antonio homecoming show.
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Most recently, Allen was the lead artist and project manager of the Yanaguana Garden in San Antonio's Hemisfair Park.
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Review
‘Friendly Fire’ at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteEven though this show opened three days before the election, it’s as if it anticipated the outcome—and it quietly poses questions about how to exist in this new dystopian paradigm.
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These sculptures act like still frames in a larger story that stars, finally, all of the people milling about them in the museum.
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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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With International Discoveries VI, FotoFest in Houston draws together thirteen emerging artists, many exhibiting in the U.S. for the first time, who grapple with the conceptual and material particularities of photography.
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a rattlesnake roundup, a surprise rural art collection, and the trickiness of performance art.
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The MFAH screens early films by father of African cinema, Ousmane Sembène.
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It really is an indictment of our culture that this seems perfectly natural and incredibly entertaining. And it is entertaining.
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How is being an artist in Germany? "It's a little bit like a game; you can have good luck or bad luck, and it's difficult to push your luck."
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The show is almost like a pro athlete going back over all his game tapes to better understand his own evolution.
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Harjo believes that the best method for engaging viewers—with the goal of effecting social change—is to use humor.
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Rainey Knudson and guest host Ana Fernandez on the art of the snow cone, documenting the Underground Railroad, and a faculty show that defies all expectation.
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Dyson subverts the taxonomy of inhabited spaces, and in this way, the act of occupying space is a political act, and it's powerful.
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It is through these staged recreations that we confront our own bodies as agents of death, pain, and healing.
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There are better and worse ways to stage a revolution. Somehow this all feels so… familiar.
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In advance of her show, Jeanine Michna-Bales talks to Glasstire about her acclaimed and haunting photographs of the vestiges of the Underground Railroad.