So the show is a push and pull between what is inherent to a space, and what the individual inhabiting the space constructs for himself.
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I would be embarrassed to ask a young writer who is just starting out to give us their content for free, on the argument that our larger audience would “give them exposure.” Hey, artists: does that sound familiar?
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This week: creepy Internet addiction, ye goode olde dayes of buffalo slaughter, and–finally being screened for the first time–a Christian Marclay video about a terrible event in Texas’ past:…
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Bill has set before me a last terrifying example and challenge: to overcome my rage and fear and to someday die with as much grace and dignity as he did.
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Maybe something fabulous and unexpected can occur here, something vaguely ‘illegal,’ something wild, something heinous, something bad.
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Out here, you could believe that any artwork could grow to unholy proportions, in a sort of 'Food of the Gods' mutation.
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By the early 2000s, the artist had become interested in new digital technologies and, making his own contribution to the field, began using a camera of his own invention.
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Even in Bryan, TX, where everything is maroon—even here, it's here.
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"I think some people are concerned about Diverseworks becoming too much of an institution and I don’t want that to happen."
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"Just keep pushing the boundaries of the discipline of art."
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GOURDS!! And punk's not dead. And despite appearances to the contrary, Christina and Rainey are not on safari.
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The cities and neighborhoods within these drawings seem to have sprung full grown from House’s larger-than-life cranium, like Athena from the head of Zeus.
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I feel for anyone who wants to write for a living and won’t get to do so in an office with other editors and writers.
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Like the name suggests, 'America Sneezes' brings together two themes: America and abjection.
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A more careful curator’s hand might have helped define the transition between these very different kinds of photos Scheidemann presents; it’s a wonder that they’re coming from the same head space.
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The wunderkammers we experience in museums today are less about the objects they contain, and are more exhibits about exhibiting, displays about display.
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Christina and Rainey are relieved it's not all about luxury goods this week.
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"Well, I decided to have really nice cars rather than children."
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For Eric Zimmerman's solo show at Art Palace in Houston, the artist's choices reverberate with and contemplate the relentless course of history.
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In 1988, and an art-appreciation class introduced me to Chris Burden along with the idea that a person would have himself shot or crucified or potentially electrocuted to death for the sake of art.