In Spheeris’ documentary you can see that the kids are our doomed canaries, as you realize that things are not only no better now, but actually worse.
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The rapid loss of a thousand years of collectively acquired manual dexterity causes the drawing student to experience existential panic when he picks up a piece of charred wood and stands before a skeleton and a sheet of paper.
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Whether wrapped, stacked, hung, or scattered, Barlow’s works have utilized an impressive array of sculptural approaches that celebrate the asymmetrical, the unbalanced, and the unglamorous.
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Sauter undertakes the majority of his explorations using installation formats; it allows him to present his discourses with a physical immediacy on a very human scale.
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This only barely involves art, but hey: it’s the summer.
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Houston is pregnant with possibilities. Why aren’t our universities capitalizing on them?
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Five years ago, seven years ago, some of us were trying to persuade artists in other more expensive places to move to Texas because it was affordable. But I can’t say that to people in good faith anymore.
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We should all just relax, lie back, and enjoy our enrichmutainment.
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The work seems to describe the shortfall of the digital world to house or even understand our emotions, and the artist seems to be having fun with this shortfall.
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It's summertime! Cool beer. Hot art. Go see it all, and come by the Big Show opening at Lawndale Friday night, where we'll be shooting video and handing out koozies. (you know you want one)
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As a somewhat naïve American, I was operating under some false assumptions.
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ProfileReview
Functionating on Time Station Earth with Esther Pearl Watson
by Gene Fowlerby Gene FowlerDespite the instability caused by her father's obsession with space travel, most of the narratives in Watson's paintings are imbued with a sweetness of memory
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The origins of Houston performance art: Oofty Goofty and Jim Pirtle
by Gene Fowlerby Gene FowlerIn 1897, Oofty wolfed down an entire quail in one sitting each night for 30 days, finishing off each bird by downing eight glasses of beer using a spoon and smoking a cigar in less than six minutes.
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Krach’s show title comes from a place of romantic sadness over a popular painting’s potential disappearance.
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Michael Bise struggles to suspend his disbelief as we round up Themed Summer Group Shows. "It's a treasure hunt for bad art."
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COMIC RELIEF/ INQUISITIVE HELL: a response to Alejandro Diaz’s ‘It Takes a Village’
by Chad Dawkinsby Chad DawkinsThis exhibition makes an incongruent overview and will be answered in kind.
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The video is a nightmare. It will ruin your day, and you can count yourself lucky that that’s the worst it can do.
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Morris has turned to a kind of religious and artistic formalism, while cultivating a perhaps fanatical relationship with outdated technology, language and phenomenology.
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Notes on a remarkable week.
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Top Five: June 25, 2015 with Special Guest Star Heyd Fontenot!
by Glasstireby Glasstire"It's still art, even though it looks like playground equipment."