Nobody cares about an artist’s personal troubles unless the artist makes them care. With Trenton Doyle Hancock’s work, I begin to care in late 1999, and care a lot by…
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As someone who builds a lot of stuff, poorly, I have a technical interest in Jeff Shore’s works.
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Introducing Orilage by Monica Vidal rings Lawndale’s mezzanine gallery with a row of 6 cut paper swatches in gay floral colors. The unbroken line of similar pieces, all at eye…
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Ironically, I ran into Mark Flood at the SUITS show, like the ghost of Banquo turning up at supper to remind the Art Guys where the body’s buried. In 1991…
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Note from the eds: This was the first “thread” of discussion on Glasstire responding to something we published, and inspired us to launch the longstanding Message Boards. – January 2007…
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It’s a good-looking show.
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Moody’s glass-walled back room is perfect for Hilary Harnischfeger’s kooky, glitter-laden installation, Ni Chomei. Named after a street in Japan where she lived as a child, the show mixes the…
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Ludwig Schwarz is an unabashedly phenomenal painter working in his strongest voice to date for Rentown at Angstrom Gallery in Dallas. Rentown pairs nine of Schwarz’s new paintings with furniture,…
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As usual, I spent last Saturday looking at art. First, I went to the MFAH to see the Cos Cob Art Colony show, because my great-grandfather ran a boatyard there…
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Review
Episodes: Claire Ankenman, Lily Hanson, Kirk Hayes, Jeremy Red and Juvenal Reis
by Bret McCabeby Bret McCabeSummer is most often a down time for galleries in Texas, shirking the usual solo shows of their roster in favor of group shows of new talent. Expectedly, these shows…
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Spirited, energetic, and well executed, The Sweet Girls: Idleness and Mischief at Lawing Gallery isn’t great art, but it is great fun.
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Even the title is too good to be true. Like a sweaty, over-hearty handshake, Miller’s show has a faked exuberance covering desperation. Each painting is captioned with an effusive compliment…
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As the first paragraph of the Menil’s brochure mentions, Tanguy’s paintings have been criticized for their uniformity.
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Brad Tucker’s Drum Solos show at Inman Gallery is part kindergarten playroom, part bandstand.
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Usually it’s easy to see where an artist is coming from; good work states the artist’s viewpoint clearly, bad work mostly falls into some recognizable category. Parody is the exception.…
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Make love, not war: Even as young Americans proudly advertised that mantra on their person more than 30 years ago, some of their peers knew that equally as many people…
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Dave Hickey is right: beauty counts. No matter how important a statement art makes, first and foremost, it has to be visually compelling. Only then do you need to decide…
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Spring is in the air; DiverseWorks” Big as Texas show mixes new work from new artists and some peppy contributions from the usual suspects. Refreshing. Despite the inevitable peaks and…
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Uta Barth’s simultaneous shows at the CAM and Lawing Gallery present a comprehensive retrospective of her work for the past ten years. The two shows are complementary; the five painting/photo…
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Last Saturday I was in San Antonio, and here’s what I saw: