“If picante sauce commercials have taught us anything, and they have, it’s that Texans know the real spice when they taste it, and won’t hesitate to string up effete East…
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I spent several hours with David Aylsworth over the course of a couple weeks, trying to figure out how to best photograph his studio. It’s a wide-open and sun-filled 1,500-square-foot…
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Photography’s treated pretty indifferently in the gallery scene around here. With a few exceptions (Amy Blakemore and Dana Harper are the only ones with longtime representation I can think of…
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Recently, the critic, theorist and sometime curator David Hickey wrote in his essay Orphans, "…three decades of art theory and art history have destroyed our understanding of art practice." The…
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Okay, for those of you poor, pathetic types who just aren’t in step, I’m With Stupid* is presently the avatar for the nearly universally beloved Whinybabyland. I’m hoping that I’m…
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House of Mind, Pat Graney‘s work in multiple media (installation, sculpture, video and choreographed performances), is probably the most ambitious project ever taken on at DiverseWorks. It’s an exhaustive tribute…
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Jill Pangallo, performance artist and cat lover, lives in Austin with her cat Vinny and a headful of witty characters. Quickly after meeting “Jill” she and I began discussing a…
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A few weeks ago I asked Francesca Fuchs if she would be willing to sit down with me for an interview about her work. In spite of the fact that…
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Among the great myths of our time, like the Great Pumpkin, Santa Claus and Evolution is the myth that galas exist to altruistically raise money for the organization they support.…
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In a move that offers welcome relief from standard American museum practice, there are no didactic labels cluttering the walls of the Olafur Eliasson show at the Dallas Museum of…
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Our best guesses for Spring 2009… Austin Heyd Fontenot: Office in the Front, Party in the Back Art Palace January 31 – March 7, 2009 Heyd Fontenot‘s gorgeous paintings and…
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The Top Ten Ghosts in My Studio This Christmas I’ve been thinking about ghosts and what it means to be haunted. I don’t know much about spirituality but I’d probably…
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Terrell James is a highly productive local painter who has been traversing the contemporary art scene here in Houston and abroad for many years. I was able to do an…
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Just across the River Seine from the Eiffel Tower, and separated from the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris by a stately stone terrace, Palais de Tokyo (established…
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Dan Perfect’s Paintings and Drawings at Road Agent Gallery does not so much revitalize high modernism as cast it in an awfully hip light. The doodles, squiggles and jig-dancing zoography…
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To our non-Houston readers: recently, a local investigative reporter has been doing a series of "exposes" about arts funding in Houston. Last night Mr. Dolcefino claimed that Houston residents "help…
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Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum currently feels more like a mini Times Square than a museum. With nearly fifty video artists represented in Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and…
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Two exhibitions by well-known Texas-based artists, Annette Lawrence and Joseph Havel, are on view at Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas. While the works of both artists are presented in…
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Perhaps in response to the never-ending story that is summer in Austin, two venues took on excessive electric bills late this season, promising escapes not only from the heat, but…
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An interesting work of art can do many things. First and foremost, it can reveal a secret about the world in a way that is both fresh and stimulating, creating…