Last night I attended the 360 Speaker Series at the Nasher Sculpture Center featuring SMU Art Chair Michael Corris in conversation with famed art critic and author Dore Ashton. I…
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The new permanent installation at Montrose’s busiest intersection, Montrose and Westheimer, is a laudable example of public art that truly reflects the ethos of its surroundings as well as trends…
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Glasstire has lots of fun opportunities to vomit voice your opinions about art. It’s set up to be interactive. However, for a number of reasons, it’s not often that I…
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Howard Sherman’s in-your-face aesthetic and cartoon-like drawing pays homage to Keith Haring and especially Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose street-art inspired paintings ran counter to the Minimalist establishment. Their art challenged…
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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,…
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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…
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Searching for the sublime in Miami: and I don’t mean mojitos… …although they were delicious at the MFAH/Cruz Diez foundation party at the Raleigh Hotel on Thursday night, where several…
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In many ways Mexico City seems as comfortable and familiar as the proverbial old shoe. With over 20 million people, it’s Big City personified and as soon as I arrived,…
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There’s nothing like the outbreak of swine flu and a scale 6 earthquake to heighten the senses, and there is something equally inspiring watching a city of over 20 million…
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Being here in D.F., as it is known, I feel like I’m being bathed in an atmosphere filled with internationally focused artists concentrating on exploring boundaries, pushing limits and feeling…
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Like anything else, very good or great exhibitions are far and few between. Like everything else, you have to sift through the crap for the jewels. So to have two…
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The Empty Box July 12, 2008 BOX 13 Artspace 6700 Harrisburg Houston, Texas the view the party the box Cody Ledvina, Katie Haragh and Michael Bise,Adrian Page,…
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From time to time, readers send us unsolicited bits of writing that are funny or opinionated or generally worth passing along, but not right for the message boards. We’ve decided…
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