Blobby dented cylinders like melting marshamllows or candy-coated teeth. I can almost feel the dentist's drill.
Houston Artletter
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Lisa Ludwig's "From Switches and Pine" at Moody Gallery is, at first glance, a roomful of birds' nests. Did you know that it's easy to take any burnable object (i.e.…
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Lawndale! It's almost too much. With not one, not two, or three or four shows on, I practically never have to go anywhere else to get my fill of iffy,…
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Brian Piana's Lawndale Has Many Friends transforms Lawndale's smaller gallery into a cool, colorful library of hundreds of colored plywood rectangles, hung in severe ranks on a grid of little…
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I was curious to see what Jerry Kearns is up to. Almost twenty years ago, he was one of my professors at University of Massachusetts. He was the hip one,…
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As I walked the warehouses with the feeling that it was the end of the low-budget era, I asked myself if that would be so bad. Hundreds of poorly climate-controlled…
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Went to the art crawl yesterday afternoon. It was clear from the 2 o'clock early crowd that this year was going to be the most popular ever, but I couldn't…
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OK, it's time to put up or shut up. I've been railing against bland, least-common denominator public art for years. Sara Kellner seduced me into making a proposal for the…
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The picture on the front page of yesterday's NY Times had, of all things, high-school football. It appears there's a tiny town in northern Kansas that has a really good…
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One character in Jonathan Marshall's video is dressed in an elaborate muppet-like bear suit that is on display in the show. The bear character crawls awkwardly on all fours thorough…
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When I look at Jonathan Marshall's Book of Lenny at Art Palace the first thing I see is it's similarity to a lot of other art I've seen recently, but…
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Dear Blog: Didn't win. Still too depressed to blog, although I've got a lot of nice pictures from Austin. It could have been worse. If I were going to admit…
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Sunday, October 31, 2007 I actually saw Wayne Gilbert's show at the Art League last week, but Halloween seemed an appropriate time to discuss it. There's a lot to discuss;…
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Compare and contrast: two bus stops. The one at the top is on Post Oak, near the Galleria, and is part of their futuristic "space city" themed street…
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The other bright spot of my Saturday afternoon was Michael Bise at Moody Gallery. The big question after his 2005 Widow show (also at Moody) was, "This is great, but…
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I just came back from Artstorm, a new artist-run space in a garage apartment in Brookesmith. I arrived a couple hours before the big opening, naturally everything was chaos. The…
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Last week, on Saturday, I spent a few hours at the Westheimer Block Party, lured there by email from Sean Carroll bearing promises of an alternative guerilla art fair. Instead,…
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I feel a little shy about liking this piece – it's so stereotypically feminine that I feel I need a woman to give me her perspective. I can imagine…
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A few weeks ago I did a talk about art criticism at no tsu oH. I haven’t written about it until now because I’ve had to mull over the difficult…
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I didn't know you could inflate metal like that. William Cannings has invented a way of puffing up hollow steel shapes so that they resemble vinyl. Eighteen new pieces at…