David McGee opens Deep Wells and Reflecting Pools, his exhibition of 27 artworks and artifacts selected from the Menil Collection’s large holdings of works of art depicting black identity, with…
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Southern Methodist University’s dignified Pollock Gallery, sectioned off from the surrounding bustle of the university campus, offers a quite place for contemplation.
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Despite the press release’s claim of “bold, striking painting,” I can’t seem to get past the title long enough to concentrate on the art.
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The work of Beth Campbell, Danica Phelps, and Eric Schnell currently on exhibit at Arthouse offers three approaches to navigating the clutter of everyday experience. All three artists reshape the…
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Margarita Cabrera, whose full-sized soft sculpture Volkswagen was such an enormous success at Art Basel Miami, has been engaging her audience in a multilayered discussion on culture, consumerism, body image…
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Currently showing at the UTEP student gallery is a small show, Fused, which brings together international students, teachers and professional artists with very different sensibilities.
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Works of extreme creativity, the stuff of cultural and political revolutions, are what keep history from being a dull, slow hum.
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Having lived in London for a little over a year now, I have noticed that, whether glamorized or demonized, Texas remains fascinating to the British.
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Several exhibitions here in El Paso and across the border in Juarez recently have featured art by women, so it seems a good time to visit the notion of women…
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With its brand new multimillion dollar visual arts center, UTEP has created an extraordinary opportunity to showcase contemporary art in this far-flung community.
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Connecting the work of contemporary artists and practitioners with that of earlier generations, Bowdoin Museum of Art curator Allison Ferris examines how artists have used available technology to render and…
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Nestled in an unassuming, pale yellow brick building in east Austin, Slugfest Printmaking Workshop and Gallery supplies local, regional and national artists with a space to develop their ideas through…
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Along a busy section of Lexington Avenue, just a few blocks north of Grand Central Station, a woman sits in a shop window serving tea to two others; they are…
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When performers leave the stage artistry ends and memory commences.
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With her installation Laguna, Hilary Wilder has transformed Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery’s minimalist main space into a maximalist phantasmagoria.
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The latest offering from the under-visited University of North Texas Art Gallery is the tasty painterly language of artist Amy Sillman.
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This fall saw a grand project in Austin called Heydays.
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Sometimes the best test of an artist’s work is how well it translates into a foreign setting. Visiting Paris recently, I had the opportunity to see how well works by…
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“Space now is not just where things happen; things make space happen.” —Brian O’Doherty, Inside the White Cube “The icebox is full of love metered out over time. Metering is…
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Imagine the white rabbit from Pat the Bunny injected into a 21st century adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, or even a DC comic book, and your vision might just come…