“All Power to the People!” Emory Douglas created the Black Panthers‘ newspaper illustrations and posters in the 60s and 70s. Grenade carrying, afro-ed guerillas, women holding machetes and babies, raised…
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Honestly? My first thought when I saw Mark Fox Mark Fox installing Dust as this year’s Summer Window Series at the Rice University Art Gallery? Too bad the Pradafication (you…
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A lifetime: what does it amount to? The body moves here, the body moves there, it encounters other bodies, perhaps even producing a couple more. Years scroll by and fin,…
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Please Never Say That Again or I Am Going to Have to Kill You Every one of us who has ever entered a juried show or had an exhibition or…
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What appears to be an incongruous two-person exhibition at Lora Reynolds Gallery is really the product of one mentally ambidextrous artist. The hyper-realist portraiture and the cartoon about the good…
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A few years back a heavy package arrived at my door, addressed to my then-husband. Inside was a bronze statue of a realistically rendered cowboy riding a bucking bronco. Perfectly…
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Arriving at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, I walked in behind a couple hundred hootin’ and hollerin’ high school students, let loose on the town. Their minders barked…
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For the Fuse Box Collaboration Project, curators Ron Berry and Jade Walker set up artists on what amounted to a ten-day blind date. They paired five Austin-based artists with five…
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I moved to Houston from Denton for graduate school with a copy of Baudrillard’s Symbolic Exchange and Death under one arm, The Routledge Cultural Studies Reader under the other, and…
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Ali Fitzgerald – Swan School; The Matriculation Art Palace April 18 – June 7, 2008 Depictions of adolescent angst can be powerful—think The Catcher in the Rye. But in the…
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Some might think the J.M.W. Turner retrospective is too much of a good thing. Organized by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the…
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Judging by how often you hear museum guards order visitors to “step away from the art,” it’s easy to see how art can be irresistible. The fact that there’s a…
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“New Photo?” I overheard somebody say about the FotoFest show of the same name. “A lot of those pieces were, like, 10 years old.” The uninformed indignation of this charge…
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Readers: after years of hankering, I’m trying my hand at a blog. Editor Kelly Klaasmeyer will be contributing from time to time as well. It’s the GT staff blog. Here…
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Martin Puryear exhibited a group of his wall-mounted wooden circles at Delahunty Gallery here in Dallas back in 1981. I can’t imagine that anyone among the twenty- to thirty-year-old art…
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Given the art world’s general indifference to documentary photography, FotoFest‘s devotion of the gigantic exhibition space at Winter Street Studios to just three Chinese documentary photographers seemed like a dubious…
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This year’s official FotoFestivus theme is Chinese photography, but I’m a gonna talk a little bit about the unofficial shows as well. Since I am the People’s Critic, it’s my…
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Ethnography, Photojournalism and Propaganda, 1934-1975 This is the first of three essays devoted to FotoFest’s current biennial program, Photography from China, 1934-2008. Next week’s article will examine the Independent Documentary…
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My favorite class in undergrad was a Northern Renaissance art class. It was taught by Dr. Scott Montgomery. Scott had long grey hair and wore Birkenstocks, which he would kick…
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New Art in Austin – 20 to Watch is the third in a series of triennial art exhibits at the Austin Museum of Art showcasing contemporary art from Austin, Texas.…