So much has been written about the US-Mexican border, and so many stereotypes and assumptions, artistic and otherwise, have been made by people who have never been here, that the…
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Gallery owner, art collector and pop-icon partner (he is George Michael’s lover), Kenny Goss is a Nietzschean Yes-Sayer. Goss says “yes” to tomorrow and “arrivederci” to yesterday. In a recent…
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I’ve known Linda Pace since I was a little girl. I remember standing just outside her kitchen with her daughter. We were taste-testing hot sauce, and I shamelessly told Linda…
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We don’t often think of art as something that’s transplanted, yet its occasional roaming nature makes it just that. Assessing the work on the wall for what it is, for…
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Exploitation of the female body is the shared theme of work by Joy Christiansen and E-J Major recently shown at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery in Dallas.
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Sterling Allen, an Austin artist and co-founder of the gallery Okay Mountain, first came to Glasstire's attention in the Austin Museum of Art's 2005 triennial, 22 to Watch. The following…
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Piotr (pronounced “Peter”) Chizinski’s show Jerry-Rigged Co-Op, at Redbud Gallery successfully combines a microscopic view of white-trash culture with a lovingly crafted display of quirky commentary.
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GORDON MATTA CLARK: YOU ARE THE MEASURE, edited by Eve Sussman. Yale University Press. Catalogs can never replace the experience of seeing the exhibition, but there are some catalogs that…
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Poetry is maybe the only literary form whose intended structure (or the lack thereof) provides for an exponential increase in freedom, disorder and independence. Poetry places an emphasis on physical…
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Rebecca Holland’s new work at Barry Whistler Gallery is precious and ironic at once. The pastel colors — pink, yellow and chartreuse — of the translucent planks, square sheets, brick-o-blocks…
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Now that the dust has fully settled around this year’s Hunting Prize, it seems appropriate to have a second look at this notable art event.
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A couple of weeks ago Manhattan was thick with Texans, both touring and transplanted. On a single Thursday, I ran into Noah Simblist at Guild and Greyshkull Gallery in Soho.…
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Basim Magdy: Mud Pools and how we got ourselves to look for Bigfoot Heaven
by Rachel Cookby Rachel CookCairo-based Basim Magdy has created two giant installations both inside and outside of Okay Mountain in the most ambitious show to date for this one-year-old artists space.
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GUANTÁNAMO: Pictures from Home, Questions of Justice, conceived by Brooklyn-based photographer and installation artist Margot Herster, was inspired by her husband’s experience as a lawyer for suspected terrorists detained at…
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John Hartley makes photo-realist paintings of rusted old toys from photographs of these prettily worn objects, which the artist collects.
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A relatively new Spring tradition in Houston is the annual Media Archeology Festival presented by the Aurora Picture Show. Now in its fourth year, this festival of live electronic and…
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When I saw Michael Velliquette’s show in Chelsea, minus-one-degree chill factor winds blew outside. Inside, the collages surrounded me like hothouse flowers, as if I had entered a steamy greenhouse.
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Review
A Little Indecision: Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces
by Sean Carrollby Sean CarrollTo the average visitor to The Menil Collection, the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces must seem like an irritating joke. Wandering through what seems to be a bunch…
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The future is now in Dallas…and elsewhere on the globe. Fast Forward. Two other exhibitions in the last five years have used the same terminology as the current two-part extravaganza…
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Austin has a reputation. In his book The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida used Austin as proof that a “creative city” will attract a substantial community of artists…