The Menil Collection is marking its 20th anniversary with A Modern Patronage: de Menil Gifts to American and European Museums, an exhibit that mixes works from the Menil’s holdings with…
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This year the Creative Research Laboratory (CRL) mounted the traditional summer grad show, except it shifted the structure around: Where typically a two-part exhibition splits the students into two groups,…
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Compiling a "best of" piece in advance of a season is always challenging and fraught. There will always be shows that exceed expectations or disappoint surprisingly. In addition, many smaller…
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If you’ve ever taken a nineteenth or twentieth-century art history class, you probably felt a little bit inundated by the parade of “-isms,” movements, and schools that generally shape how…
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Texas Gallery, arguably the bluest-chip gallery in Houston, harvesting talents such as Tony Oursler, Chuck Close and Elizabeth Murray among many others over the years, presentes the blandly titled Lines,…
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Welcome to Earth Two. (Isn't that where Superman ended up sometimes, a place where things seemed earthlike but somehow different.) In this case its located at the Cafe Rakkyo, an…
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It is two days into the 6th Annual Dallas Asian Film Festival Three if you count the VIP Preview receptions at Nobu, where, as you might suspect, the food was…
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The dog days of August are here. Galleries are either on vacation or operating with reduced hours. Gerald Peters has announced a delay to their move to the Design District,…
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“The earth will be a heaven in the 21st century in comparison with what it is now.” – Madame Blavatsky
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Merv Griffin’s death last week has set me thinking. I was never much of a Merv Griffin fan. His most distinguishing characteristic for me — and remember this was when…
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Airs de Paris, a rangy exhibition on the top floor of the Centre Pompidou, marks the 30-year anniversary of the Marcel Duchamp retrospective that inaugurated the museum in 1977.
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The vast holdings of Texas art, both historic and contemporary, that Dallas collectors Nona and Richard Barrett have put together over the last 20 years are legendary among Texas art…
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The argument can be made that the tools of postmodern technology, like digital imaging and video, have removed “the artist’s hand,” so to speak, from the final product.
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The 20th Annual Dallas Video Festival has come to an end. As usual I did not make it to as much as I intended, and the thought that I would…
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The new Melissa Miller monograph is out from the University of Texas Press, and it is quite the impressive tome – 11 x 12 inches, 177 pages, over 100 color…
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A noticeable shift in this year’s New American Talent (NAT) exhibition, at Arthouse in Austin through August, is the curator’s exacting attention to photography. Digital technology is increasing the amount…
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There is no doubt that Ron Mueck is very good at what he does. This native Australian, now London-based artist, whose work is currently on view at the Modern Art…
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Margo Handwerker interviews curator Valerie Cassel Oliver about Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art, on view at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston.
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Meredith Goldsmith, a current Critical Studies Core Fellow at the Glassell School of Art, examines two recent sculpture exhibitions in Houston: Margarita Cabrera at Finesilver Gallery, and Louise Nevelson at…
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In dreaming, faraway, Kerry Inman and Patrick Reynolds showcase five emerging Japanese artists who favor a more pensive approach to art making than their contemporaries, many of whom will be…