The pieces on display illuminate Europeans’ elaborate, often amusing responses to botanicals, and their desire to possess and preserve plants across time and space.
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That our built environments should be ephemeral only serves to remind us of our own transience.
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A few words about the artist's newest work on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center.
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This is the Pop Art of Brownsville, Texas — an enigmatic, idiosyncratic place few understand, but where many live.
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Martin's elaborate mixed-media technique of painting, printmaking, and sewing creates layers of complex portraiture that demands closer viewing.
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This is the gallery’s first solo showing of the Denton-based artist, though her neon and kinetic installations have been widely exhibited in the region and beyond.
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Architectural designer Thomas Rinaldi found exploring historical patents to be a way of unpacking how innovation follows certain trends and design impetuses over time.
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“Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves” at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteThere's a meta-conversation happening within Reaves’ work that may not make her the best candidate for this kind of cross-conversational pairing.
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It makes sense that many of the current art offerings touch on themes from the pandemic: physical connection, mundane domesticity, and mental health.
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Pacifico Silano’s large-scale collages embody the spectrum of queer experience.
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Nuevo nombre, nuevos rumbos: La Sala de Arte Popular Latinoamericano en el Museo de Arte de San Antonio
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoLa frase “arte popular” es una pequeña pero importante redefinición de la amplia y nebulosa categoría “arte folclórico.”
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“It’s a century where artists think very deeply about what drawing is as a concept, but also about materials and how to use them.”
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Deborah Roberts’ context is very much the America of our lifetimes.
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Reiland's pictures of women are not so much documentary portraits as gestures of a sort of imaginative empathy, where historical facts and artistic interpretations collide.
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Onifadé isn’t jumping through a department store window to get your attention. These paintings are pageants of restraint.
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These times of isolation — or at the very least, this weird and dangerous year-long disruption — has forced upon us a new awareness of space and of bodies.
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Piwonka takes on the misunderstood world of maleness from a refreshingly unexpected angle.
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There’s an eerie serendipity to visiting these shows during this ever-unfurling new reality.
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Embarking as a motivated flaneur is the point.
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“The show gave me the opportunity to look backwards and look forwards at the same time, and to think about the resonance of images, actions, and words then and now.”