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I generally try to be objective and somewhat professional when writing an art review. I probably don’t do a very good job of it, but I try. I decided to…

Patience, in the traditional sense, is a virtue I’m not fortunate enough to possess. So much so that as a child I was set down and made to build model…

In response to the record heat, I am trying to move as little as possible. Even body heat is the enemy. Therefore, engagement in anything cultural becomes problematic, so I…

There is a popular myth that Genius Is Born Of Suffering. The idea is so pervasive and pretentious it demands every word be capitalized when written. Yet the Kimbell Art Museum’s Picasso…

Before the era of car bombs and IEDs, Icelandic-born sculptor Gudjon Bjarnason began using high explosives to create unorthodox shapes and forms in his work. He was looking for unexpected…

I have to admit it’s been a hard year. Since last July Art and I have had a rocky relationship. After 2 decades of unconditional love I began to question…

The concept behind this group show (also called S/Twist or S…/Twist, depending on where you’re looking) derives from Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality. Curator Liliana Bloch had the idea swimming in her head for years—visual representations…

I am not going to rehash Lynda Benglis’ career, (for that see Roberta Smith’s NYT review of the New Museum Show), but she has been around for a long time,…

For half of my life I’ve lived in Oak Cliff — a now hip and cool, but once bad-repped and socially misunderstood place that I’ve long prized for its rogue-ish solitude…

Its time to pour yourself a cocktail, slather on some sunscreen, and break out that worn copy of Valley Of The Dolls. The art world, having lovingly adopted the academic…

In doing research for an upcoming exhibition I couldn’t believe the amount  of contemporary art based on chandeliers out in the world. For Similar but Different #20 let me illuminate…

I saw STATUESQUE for the second time on Saturday, July 23rd, from 11:15 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. The temperature was 90 degrees at arrival and 94 degrees at departure. The…

I wrote awhile back about the need for more unsanctioned, free-thinking, button-pushing art to take place in Dallas — things out in the public that recall, maybe, Dallas’ renegade spirit, or at…

An orchid is dying. Its brown bloom stalk leans over a stacked set of studio monitors resting on the gallery floor. Lionel Richie’s crooning ballad overtakes the quiet buzz of…

If great cities are measured by their cultural institutions, Fort Worth is extraordinary. Its Cultural District is compact, pedestrian-friendly and internationally famous for the five renowned museums lined up right…

Mirror Mirror #7 features artists Salvador Castillo, Michael Anthony García, and Hector Hernandez also known as the collective Los Outsiders. They met in 2006 and since meeting have come together…

After studying and practicing architecture in the 80s and 90s, working in the clothing industry and studying business management, Adam Silverman couldn’t ignore his deep leanings toward ceramics anymore, a…

The beauty of a gallery like Cris Worley Fine Arts is its invitation to view all of the art at once. The space itself requests your slow study over the…

  From the sea of summer group shows I trekked through the other night, two artists stood out: Benjamin Terry and Kerry Pacillio, both on view at Cohn Drennan in a…

Last week I wrote about Houston’s dueling art fairs coming up this fall.  Scheduled one month apart, each has a New York area organizer. It got me thinking about Dallas’s…