Currently in Houston there are two exhibitions featuring some rather obscure European artists. Interestingly enough, gallery owners Sonja Roesch and Anya Tish are showcasing artists from their respective home turfs:…
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It is somewhat difficult to walk into a show entitled Artists & Cowboys Should be Friends entirely objectively. Unfortunately, this show at the University of North Texas’ Artspace gallery in…
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Black holes, the paranormal and the cosmic ether all dwell alongside the elusive and sometimes unfathomable stuff called dark matter. It’s a perfect leitmotif for a group of obscurant Japanese…
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Although the majority of the paintings in Jill Moser’s first solo show at Wade Wilson Art (for that matter, in Houston) are from a series she’s titled stills (2005), they…
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The events of 9-11 made Americans aware of their alien status in the world. We are foreigners in a world of foreigners and we are strangers to ourselves. In keeping…
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LONDON, England — Super-ultra-mega-collector-and-a-half Charles Ponzi has launched a porn site for art students to display not only their tentative and unresolved juvenile work, but also their tender, naked, more…
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Christian Pitt's art fits somewhere between the seventh-grade world of Dawn Wiener in the 1996 film Welcome to the Dollhouse and the parlor life of Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's…
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A photo is not a painting. And Brian Fridge's minimal photos are anything but minimalist. His exhibition Photography will be on display at Dunn and Brown Contemporary through February 10.
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Every summer as a kid I rode with my whole family crammed in a station wagon to New Mexico.
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December 6 — San Antonio The next two weeks will be a study in cultural dichotomies. I am set to travel from Art Basel Miami Beach directly to the 2006…
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Gilbert Vicario is assistant curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He was chosen to curate the United States entry in the 10th Cairo International…
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"Affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other." Charles Dickens, 1844 Uncovering a bright new talent isn't always as gratifying as revisiting an established discoverer. The…
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I own three art dictionaries, references published in the late 1980s by such reputable houses as Thames and Hudson, Penguin and Random House. Each has been rendered largely useless by…
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In talking to people about the show at The Contemporary Arts Museum, I find that everyone seems to have a similar response: I like it but I just can’t figure…
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Currently at the Fort Worth Modern is a retrospective of Japanese-born American photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, a sampling of his photographic images from the past 30 years. Unique to this particular…
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Context matters. Given the art world, the non-art world looks rather inviting.
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This is Part Two of the adventures of Los Angeles photographers Grant Munford and Darrin Little, as they drive through the highways of TX.
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The end of a year is marked with lists galore. What were the best ______ you saw all year? Top ten favorite________. What are your resolutions for this year? I…
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No longer mere housewifery, sewing is the work of smart, cutting-edge artists. Stitching, knitting, embroidering, crocheting, weaving, suturing: these are the acts of those who make the powerfully splayed, the…