Austin’s Farewell Film Club presents a variety of unreal celluloid realities—not only great, rarely-seen films, but an interesting mix of stuff not normally seen together.
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One of the worst and best things to happen at this year’s Texas Contemporary Art Fair was a car crash.
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Ugh, but it's a fine thing when art moves you. Individual experiences may vary, but that's the beauty of subjectivity. Just let it happen. I mean that sincerely.
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Michael Bise’s adversity has produced a suite of drawings that offer us an alternative and unblinking view of the experience of death, illness, and our medical system. Luckily for us, he is brave and skillful enough to share it.
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Why Things are Falling Apart is a book I bought, then put off reading because, not having done my homework about the author, I feared it was written by some Tea Party wingnut.
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Part 1 was about the sheer supersized blue chip hype of Frieze. Pulse was less Six Flags and more neighborhood pizza parlor. Here’s some of the work for your pleasure and critique.
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Mocking the grief of adorers of John Lennon, Princess Diana, and John Kennedy seems blasphemous.
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Frieze New York, or How I Learned What You Can Get Away With
by John Aaspby John AaspFrieze is the fair with all the hype—and three cafes, wood-paneled porta-potty complexes, a VIP room and air-conditioned tents out on Randall’s Island. Highlights shall now ensue.
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This Weekend: Morris Engel’s “The Little Fugitive” at MFAH
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasThis Friday through Monday, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is presenting daily screenings of the rarely seen classic, The Little Fugitive, via a beautiful new 35mm print made by…
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I spent the week of May 1-7 in New York to see galleries/museums and attend a curator conference. As an obsessive photo taker, I thought it might be fun to…
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A few months back I took a weekend trip to Dallas, and was impressed by the young, vibrant art scene emerging there. Grassroots arts ventures have always been interesting to…
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Let me introduce to you Karen Weiner, Director, founder and driving force behind The Reading Room at 3715 Parry Ave. in Dallas. Swing the Book Swap on Saturday, May 11…
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1. What’s your favorite merit badge? My favorite merit badge was the “Fingerprinting” badge, which I’m sure they don’t even have anymore. My father was a detective and gave me…
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I’m not sure what I expected from “Triple Treat,” the CAMx exhibition at Unit B. I had really high hopes for the exhibition and can honestly say that I’m extremely…
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At the entrance to Last Resort, a shelf holds a handful of empty wasp nests for our inspection. That is, the nests are empty of wasps. Instead, brightly colored paint…
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I had never seen Kelly O’Connor’s work together in one place, one show, one space all at one time until I saw Last Resort at Women and their Work in Austin. O’Connor’s…
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Forrest Bess (1911-1977) lived a hermit’s life in a cabin in Chinquapin, Texas. In the catalog for the exhibit Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible, Robert Gober writes, “Forrest Bess lived a life…
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Current CORE Resident Madsen Minax hails from Chicago and recently received an Andy Warhol Foundation Idea Fund grant. His film, Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, will be screened…
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Squirrel fetus stew anyone? Homemade pipe bombs to destroy the “technical class?” Smashing windows as an initiation into homicidal mania? Pus-filled gums resulting from porcupine meat lodged at the base…
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The exhibition lies in two explorations which converge in the space itself. The physical space acts as a metaphor for the process that an artist goes through while projecting themselves…