Review

What makes these fellows odd? And why are they proclaiming it so publicly? Why are they organizing like this? Exactly how odd are they?

All along I've been struck by the work’s consistency in witty concepts, a tension of opposites, and its underlying sexual charge.

Xiaoze Xie’s show at Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas explores the assertion that journalism is the first draft of history in a beautifully painted way while it also examines just how rough a draft it is.

Newly restored 1975 Texas art documentary Jackelope screens at the MFAH with filmmaker Ken Harrison and guest artists in attendance.

Duggins’ artistic act is to face a reality in which we remain at the mercy of a natural world that can bury cities and wipe out populations. He delivers it with a half smile and a sure hand.

The Age of the Mollusk has ascended and we are all part of its evolution.

Lansden's process is quite at odds with views that equate evolution with entropy.

It is possible to make good art and remain relaxed while doing it.

To experience art in the everyday requires a willful suspension of disbelief about that experience.

In a capitalistic society, how we choose to spend our money holds ultimate sway. Hell, I’m drinking a Coke as I’m writing this.

Atkins' work hooks us, and our hunger to realize his pattern of communication is engaged like a heat-seeking missile.

Peter Lucas previews an upcoming Houston screening of historic and contemporary experimental films co-presented by DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture Show.

MASS Gallery in Austin has brought in some heavy hitters for its current exhibition.

For nearly four decades, Tom Orr has brought an unending curiosity, commitment, and conviction to making art that speaks to its necessity.

Cusick, like any good collagist, is an obsessive—not just visually and organizationally, but personally—and much of the work in this show is centered on some point of his combined rage, sense of betrayal, and a warning shot.

The sense of inevitability in highway driving that Simek evokes through editing is occasionally cracked open by surprises.

For the high-end art collector, a vanity museum is a tricky thing to pull off. I live in the same city as the quirky, elegant Menil Collection, perhaps the best…

The works in this show inhabit a world where new and old dangers, and the futile attempts to establish safety, are the New Normal.

Seeing an exhibition of Fogel's work in person was like meeting someone I’ve been unfairly kept from for all my years of looking at art.

At some point in his long, productive life the artist Frank Reaugh (1860-1945) appraised his youthful self as “the most awkward fellow you ever saw.” A 1924 photograph of Reaugh…