Review

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…

Lavar Muroe transitions so seamlessly between the cute and the grotesque that we simply cannot stop staring, and we might become disgusted at our very desire to stare.

A newly restored program of rarely seen short films gives a glimpse of Austin's DIY rennaisance in the late-'70s and early-'80s.

Setting up shop as the nefarious capitalist beast you seek to indemnify doesn’t so much reveal the troubling apparatus as it does prove your involvement in it.

The online images were haunting enough to get me in my car for the six-hour drive up into the Panhandle to see these paintings in person.

I’ve been giving work anonymously to Daniel Johnston for the past five years so there was zero chance I would miss this potential alignment of all that is miraculous in Texas.

The confounding notion of how the viewer is supposed to engage with what’s going on is precisely what keeps Bohl and Tcherepnin's collaboration ticking.

"Really interesting institutional critique - just the fact that he is destroying the gallery."

When I left the Blaffer, I felt I could have watched each piece another 17 times, especially the last two, and still felt enlivened and refreshed.

Some works have such a finessed touch that it’s hard not to love them.

The exhibition contains 120 artifacts made by detainees during the four years of their confinement. Nearly every person interviewed who had been interned said that the only way they could bear their time of detention was by being creative.

Baker and Hillock are omniscient surveyors of sorts: trolling, culling and recovering pieces of cultural memory.

A belated FYI to the Habsburgs, if one were trying to diminish the freakishly large chin of one’s family line: marrying one’s niece would not be the way to do it.

In Spheeris’ documentary you can see that the kids are our doomed canaries, as you realize that things are not only no better now, but actually worse.

Whether wrapped, stacked, hung, or scattered, Barlow’s works have utilized an impressive array of sculptural approaches that celebrate the asymmetrical, the unbalanced, and the unglamorous.

The work seems to describe the shortfall of the digital world to house or even understand our emotions, and the artist seems to be having fun with this shortfall.

As a somewhat naïve American, I was operating under some false assumptions.

Despite the instability caused by her father's obsession with space travel, most of the narratives in Watson's paintings are imbued with a sweetness of memory

Krach’s show title comes from a place of romantic sadness over a popular painting’s potential disappearance.