Surface Tension, the current show at MASS Gallery, is a quiet and considered study of the work of three artists. The photography and paper works on display relate to concerns…
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Interview with contemporary artist Matthew Metzger
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Cocksucker Blues: Robert Frank’s Infamous Rolling Stones Doc Hits the Screen 40 Years Later
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasI cannot overstate the rarity of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s upcoming screenings of Cocksucker Blues (1972), nor my excitement about it. This is the Halley’s Comet of…
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As Instagram portfolios overflow with images taken with ever-improving iPhone cameras, Austin-based artist David Johndrow continues to make platinum-palladium, cyanotype and gum bichromate prints, observing minute details that most of…
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Recently I had a chance to talk with Nina Hassele, director of Contemporary Art Month (CAM), and CAM Board Member Leigh Baldwin; both told me all about CAM past and…
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Picasso Black and White has all the ingredients of a blockbuster exhibition. The featured artworks are historically significant examples from the best known periods of the artist’s work installed chronologically.…
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I’d rather not point fingers at specific artists, but I am concerned that there is a lack in much of contemporary art of what I perceive as… Passion. A couple…
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Interview with contemporary artist Alan Reid
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On Tuesday, February 26, beginning at 7 a.m., The Art Guys walked the 29.6 miles of Little York Road, the longest street in Houston. Otis Ike, director of the upcoming…
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Passing by The Breakfast Klub last week, I did a double take at Reginald Adams’ newest mural of President Obama. As a community art project, a target of vandalism and…
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I recently had the chance to get into the studio of artist and friend Michael Anthony García. Our conversation about his most recent work for People’s Gallery at the City…
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Currently on exhibit at the Fort Worth Modern is a focus exhibition on the work of Nigerian/British artist Yinka Shonibare. Shonibare’s work is usually categorized by themes of colonialism/power and…
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The Progress of Love at the Menil Collection is an ambitious group exhibition that takes on the broad topics of love and African contemporary art with simultaneous exhibitions at the…
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Interview: Stephanie Barron, Curator of “Ken Price Sculpture” at the Nasher
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisAs senior curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Stephanie Barron catalyzed the Nasher Sculpture Center’s current exhibition, Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective.…
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Over the weekend I had the amazing pleasure of visiting Dallas. Yes, that’s right, pleasure! Aside from the major Dallas institutions, I was fairly ignorant of the existing arts scene…
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Carl Hammoud’s current exhibition of paintings and drawings at Lora Reynolds Gallery feels cool and empty. The works are also nearly impeccably installed. I recently told a friend that the…
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“Latin American countries are at a disadvantage in terms of research funds in technological fields. As a result, all sorts of equipment and devices are adapted and updated in a…
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Art is often at its best when it’s out of the ordinary. That’s what makes Marfa so alluring, or Amarillo’s Cadillac Ranch. And while the Beeville Art Museum may not…
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Last week’s episode of “GIRLS” showed Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah Horvath, engaging in a topless round of ping pong with Joshua, a recently separated 42-year-old handsome stranger performed by Patrick…
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This is officially the season of painters’ painters. Three major exhibitions curated by Houston-based painters have opened in the last five months– “In Plain Sight” curated by Aaron Parazette at…