Webb’s work gives us a glimpse of what these lands look like to someone who comes from so far away.
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New Name, New Directions: The Latin American Popular Art Gallery at San Antonio Museum of Art
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoThe phrase “Popular Art” is a small but important redefinition of the broad and nebulous category of folk art.
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Even though the works in Peña’s current exhibition were all made in 2019, they feel sharply prophetic of our grim, lockdown days.
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"I wouldn’t be able to make the work I’m making if I hadn’t left my hometown. I wouldn’t be able to see it and understand it without the perspectives I now have."
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McNeil's understatement and structural references belie a strength in subterfuge, like an unsensed yet omnipresent virus lurking in our midst.
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Works from a diverse set of artists in the United States, Latin America, and Brazil showcase the many ways that artists in the mid-20th-century Americas experimented with light, color, and materiality.
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"Exquisite Adornment," a promised expansion of SAMA’s collection, indicates an evolving approach toward displaying and contextualizing Asian art.
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Battening Down Time, Death and A Few Other Things: Theodora Allen at 12.26, Dallas
by Eric Shawby Eric ShawThe paintings sanctify the 12.26 space like altarpieces. And they’re New Agey in the best way.
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Big Tex is an abstract everyman who somehow manages to be nobody.
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By different degrees, everyone is a stranger. Our inner worlds are largely obscure to each other. It’s not a stretch to wonder: can we grasp anything substantial about another person’s…
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Kitchen’s careful manipulation of sometimes lush, sometimes desolate snapshots from the American Northwest probe the contours between documentary and craft.
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Reyna explores motherhood and Autism Spectrum Disorder in a new exhibition in Lubbock.
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Talking Back: Portraits Unmasked (and the Stories Behind The Faces)
by Lydia Pyneby Lydia PyneThis is a book about the hidden, captivating, complex lives of portrait sitters and how history has — or has not — remembered them.
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In his installation at Janette Kennedy Gallery in Dallas, the talented political artist hits another one out of the park.
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Even at the end of options, there are still options.
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"Graffiti has also become a popular art form among the property owners who once disapproved — now many building owners commission graffiti artists to adorn their walls with murals."
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I remember when Nicole Tersigni’s thread of portraiture-based mansplaining memes started popping up in my Twitter feed last year. I laughed until I cried.
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These works are delicate but not fragile, bringing to mind the slogan by queer publisher Genderfail: "radical softness as a boundless form of resistance."
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One of the pleasures of the show is that you don’t have to be knowledgeable or really even have any interest in Theatre Arts or Robert Tobin’s life or collection.
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Not only does our constant upgrading fundamentally impact our perception and experience of time, but it shapes how we document and share ourselves as well as our legacies.