The show avoids a decisive position on the role of narrative by offering a selection of works with the potential to tell a story—or to tell a potential story. That potential is elusive.
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on why you don’t even need to leave your house to see some art across the state.
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A recent resurgence of interest in Carpenter's minimal electronic soundtrack music has led to a victory lap around the globe this year that’s perfect for the veteran filmmaker.
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'Lawndale Live' is a live show shot weekly this fall in front of a studio audience at Lawndale Art Center, Houston.
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: We Can Do It The iconic spread featuring Lynda Benglis from the 1974 issue of Artforum has…
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The Beat artists, in their time, were something the establishment really didn’t know what to do with.
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I just spent the last week in both Los Angeles and New York, and saw a lot of art.
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The work is always about Texas, even when it isn’t.
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Scott Gilbert’s noir comic series about the alleged theft of a Julian Schnabel painting by the legendary curator Walter Hopps.
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on buying art for Christmas, a look back on the Houston art scene, and a young BFA with a lot of hustle.
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We don’t value what is good—we value (and are more enthralled by) what seems ‘real.’
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Ariane Roesch interviews artists living and working in Marfa, Texas.
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Heads or Tails. Scholars generally agree that Caravaggio’s “David with the head of Goliath” is a…
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Review
Rachelle Vasquez at Box 13: Those That Feel the Influence of the Stars
by Michael Biseby Michael BiseIt’s a relief to know that artists like Vasquez are carving out time to contemplate a world of beings that are too often invisible and insignificant in our daily political decisions.
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For more than a decade, El Paso-based artist Margarita Cabrera has dedicated her art making to venerating the lives of Mexican immigrants
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The Houston artist Scott Gilbert created the comic strip True Artist Tales for the Public News, and later the Houston Press, from 1988 to 2003. This fall a selection of…
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Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on which shows to take which relatives to over the long holiday weekend. “What do we do at Thanksgiving? We get out of the house,…
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The unseen possibility lies like a snake that has swallowed a yard stick, pointing due north as would a prophecy, or the lost needle of a compass.
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What is a committed, black activist artist to do about sharing a name with the Pollyanna blonde girl who was in the movie Singin’ In The Rain?
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The foundational images that are at the heart of Malone’s work carry a sense of the eternal forces that made them.