The show turns the question of territory inward to “here,” to Smith's origins in Brownsville.
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Glasstire's staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for 2021.
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The exhibition's pieces feel like they’re whipping your retinas around at high speeds. The man’s running — from something, and toward something, too.
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Performa commissions new works by artists, and also restages seminal works from performance history.
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Our Fascination with Color: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes
by Lydia Pyneby Lydia Pyne'Color Scheme' is a brilliant, smart examination of how we think about color, how material medium informs color, and how these ideas have changed over time.
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Mao's site-specific installation at Co-Lab brings together an affinity for steel, ceramics, and leather, with a refined sense of melding materiality into a multivalent metaphor — in this case, the symbolic, dualistic nature of the serpent.
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This exhibition considers how the concept of home is expressed in works from the Stark Museum's Southwestern Art collections.
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The drawings featured, like the show’s curation, are exquisite and precise, and ask the viewer to reconsider how they understand Pop and its contemporary applications.
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William Sarradet on the work of Trey Burns, Gerald Bell, Heyd Fontenot, Jeremy Biggers, Jeff Gibbons, and Summer Aquino.
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This exhibition is about the deep marrow of a Mexican-American family that immigrated to and settled in South Texas.
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The exhibition reminds audiences implicitly and explicitly that Pop art was much more than just Warhol’s soup cans and Marilyns.
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Cox’s work is subversive because he uses the same iconography that perpetuates the myth of Manifest Destiny to expose it as a farce.
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Even in this iteration of the fair, which included fewer galleries than in recent years, the event felt full, lively, and (as art fairs often are) just the slightest bit overwhelming.
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Myth and Legend: Dawolu Jabari at the Galveston Artist Residency
by Robert Boydby Robert BoydIn this show, Jabari imagines that various persons from African-American history have become mythologized and associated with constellations.
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Apocalypses, Heaven and Hell: Folk Art from the Collection of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas
In this exhibition, AMSET collapses sub-categories of folk art to establish a dialogue between Mexican and American artists who create outside of the formal art world.
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Gulf Coast Lore: Julie Speed at the Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont
by Sarah Ridleyby Sarah RidleyInstead of surreal visual puns or absurd humor, Speed dares the viewer to begin finding their own parareal story.
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William Sarradet on exhibitions on view at the South Dallas Cultural Center, the Dallas Museum of Art, Terrain Dallas, The MAC, and PRP.
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The prototypes for our rangy, tougher-than-leather symbols of American independence were Mexican. Without vaqueros crossing the Rio Grande, there would have been no "Lonesome Dove."
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“A lot of people think I’m trying to be clever, [but during lockdown] all I wanted to do was to try and make beautiful things."
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Angela Faz’s multimedia exhibition, "The Grammar of Animacy," focuses on the personification of the Arkikosa (also known as the Trinity River).