Saakred is a 26-year-old queer/trans artist, musician, filmmaker, and community activist living in San Antonio.
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Art + Wine + Nosh + Good Conversation + Brisk Sales = Successful Opening Night
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I want to keep them excited about art! I look forward to helping them develop their skills and opening them up to new possibilities.
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"Houston party scene, 2015... you guys are fucking up his tuxedo!"
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This week, veteran Houston gallerist Barbara Davis chimes in: "It's my magical world."
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Autumn Knight encouraged us to literally “break the ice” using heavy sledgehammers and big bags of cubed ice.
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"Really interesting institutional critique - just the fact that he is destroying the gallery."
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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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Some works have such a finessed touch that it’s hard not to love them.
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The Houston art writer has paused writing and is publishing a new magazine of artists' works: "I’m not in love with my own voice. I’m in love with seeing things."
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"Here's the deal: I'm hopeful that this will be awesome, but it could very well be a couple of people showing up in suits and doing a half-baked performance that's a social critique that doesn't really work.... Yes?"
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These are all, for me, very listenable songs, and perhaps ideal for a car trip or flight on your way to a museum show or art-friendly city, or a wander through a museum or gallery.
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The exhibition contains 120 artifacts made by detainees during the four years of their confinement. Nearly every person interviewed who had been interned said that the only way they could bear their time of detention was by being creative.
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Baker and Hillock are omniscient surveyors of sorts: trolling, culling and recovering pieces of cultural memory.
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A belated FYI to the Habsburgs, if one were trying to diminish the freakishly large chin of one’s family line: marrying one’s niece would not be the way to do it.
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This week we are back with a video and are introducing our new Assistant Editor, Brandon Zech!
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In Spheeris’ documentary you can see that the kids are our doomed canaries, as you realize that things are not only no better now, but actually worse.
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The rapid loss of a thousand years of collectively acquired manual dexterity causes the drawing student to experience existential panic when he picks up a piece of charred wood and stands before a skeleton and a sheet of paper.
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Whether wrapped, stacked, hung, or scattered, Barlow’s works have utilized an impressive array of sculptural approaches that celebrate the asymmetrical, the unbalanced, and the unglamorous.
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Sauter undertakes the majority of his explorations using installation formats; it allows him to present his discourses with a physical immediacy on a very human scale.