Celebrating the legendary de Menil years of the Rice Museum and Rice Media Center. The Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this year has had me thinking a lot about its importance…
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Take a moment to chuckle. You’re welcome. Issa Benítez Dueñas Art Sickness Bag, 2005 Printed paper bag Collection of Proyecto Changarrito
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Well y’all, we made it. While the episodes were sometimes painful to watch, I have thoroughly enjoyed recapping them for you! So let’s talk about the SEASON FINALE. The Gallery…
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The Program Will Begin Shortly… Silence is Toby Kamps’ first major exhibition at The Menil Collection since becoming curator of modern and contemporary art two years ago. You should not…
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Glasstire Virtual Studio Visit: Chad Maydwell
by Glasstireby GlasstireChad Maydwell‘s “music visualization” video Rêverie – Claude Debussy was one of the standouts in the 2012 Lawndale Big Show. Here’s his newest stop motion animation, Stardust – Fats Waller. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLhXLEV34Tw…
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Chupacabrona, California (Two: Grad school confidential)
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischAm I a washout as a modern American thinker if I have trouble learning Photoshop? ...Yes, right? Shit.
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Just a heads up: this week I may end up skipping a pretty large portion of “happenings” on the show in order to vent a little bit on a different…
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In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery, organized by Aaron Parazette, is an exhibition of 40 paintings by 40 Houston artists. Its essential premise, apart from a group photo-op, is…
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Three things: 1. Amid the brouhaha following Paul Schimmel’s departure from MoCA this summer, Eli Broad was quoted in the LA Times as estimating the value of MoCA’s exhibits by…
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1988 was a rotten time to be a teenager. During the Reagan-Bush era, you had to put in a lot of work to hear something other than Bon…
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“Mimi Kato: One Ordinary Day of an Ordinary Town” at Conduit Gallery
by Garry Reeceby Garry ReeceOne Ordinary Day of an Ordinary Town, Mimi Kato’s current exhibition on view at Conduit Gallery, is a continuation of the hybrid digital landscapes she first presented at ArtPace…
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A Study in Contrasts: Paul Thomas Anderson and Laurie Anderson
by Katie Gehaby Katie GehaI ended my weekend by going to see the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie The Master. The film is broadly about a Scientology-like group in post-war America who believe, through…
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This week I had the pleasure of watching ‘Gallery Girls’ with my parents. Any hope I had that they might find the show entertaining was dashed when the credits started…
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Claire Ruud Interviews New Artadia Director Carolyn Ramo
by Claire Ruudby Claire RuudCarolyn Ramo, Artadia’s new director, spent the last 12 years of her career in the New York gallery world, first at Nicole Klagsbrun, then as a production director at David…
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1. New York in the fall is ridiculously seductive. I visited this past weekend and the weather was perfect–blue skies, cool breezes. I walked all around, looking at art, meeting…
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Can I admit that I get a major kick out of this image? That I am thankful for it? Can I say this without losing a significant portion of the…
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Everyone was wondering how the Houston Fine Art Fair‘s move to Reliant Center would work out. From what I can tell it was a good idea. It’s a newer space…
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I have to admit that art fairs, in general, are not my thing. They seem exhausting for everyone involved from visitors to the gallery girls working the booths. With 80…
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It wasn’t ’til Sunday morning that I got the point of the Marfa Dialogues, an extended look at art, culture and climate change over Labor Day weekend. We were trooping…
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Galveston Arts Center‘s pop up show of work from Nick Barbee‘s Galveston Artist Residency is at 4411 Montrose through today, Saturday, September 15. It’s in the former Peel Gallery space…