Like a good dose of The Twilight Zone, Celia Eberle’s latest show, Sweat, shakes up prescribed notions of happily ever after.
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Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art opened June 27th at the University Museum of Texas Southern University as part of a two year, seven…
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In 2002, when Crate & Barrel began selling framed Rothko prints for $499, one could safely say that color-field painting had saturated the market, as it were.
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Imagine the history of modernism without Jackson Pollock, Clifford Still, Mark Rothko, or the New York School.
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Olafur Eliasson seems to have been everywhere of late, using elemental forces and state changes (light to heat, wet to dry, water to vapor) to create boisterous installations that turn…
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As one of the final exhibitions at Inman Gallery’s Travis space before the gallery’s move to its new location in the Isabella Court building on Main Street, Bill Davenport has…
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Words like Totally, Suckey, Beach Bunnie, and Surf God represent the muse behind Aaron Parazette’s recent Minimalist compositions in high-keyed color variations.
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Okay, so maybe he deserved that $20,000 Artadia Grant.
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Recently I had the opportunity to visit three artists’ studios in Monterrey, Mexico.
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Mel Ziegler has put balloons in the gallery. Warhol did it. Koons did it too.
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Heyd Fontenot’s latest series of drawings and oils on panel have been on display this spring at North Cottage, a private residence in downtown Austin.
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ArtPace’s Hudson Showroom is featuring works by New York-based painter Peter Rostovsky. While questioning contemporary attitudes towards spiritualism, nature, and the sublime, Rostovsky references classical, modern, and post-modern painting through…
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A black jagged vinyl-cut drawing launches the Proposition Player exhibition with an expressionist tagging of the sleek metal Contemporary Arts Museum (CAM) building.
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Tenacity is a necessary condition for opening a gallery in any mid-sized urban environment.
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Americans generate a lot of trash. It is estimated that we each create about four pounds of garbage a day, which results in over 210 million tons of waste destined…
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Viewing A Spirited Vision: Highlights of the Bequest of Caroline Wiess Law to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the thought occurred to me: it’s always nice to see how…
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The screen door just inside the entrance to Barry Whistler Gallery makes you want to peer in with your hands cupped around your eyes. At the far end of the…
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In essence, every finished work of art is a proverbial fly trapped in amber.
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To over-determine a work of art, finding meaning where there is none, might well be the bane of good art and a healthy art culture, not to mention a would-be…
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The title of this show initially alarmed me, but Going West doesn’t shove the Western Myth down your throat in obvious ways. Unexpected materials, variable scales, changing light, humor, and…