During the 1980s Washington, DC enjoyed a vibrant art scene — a time when it was fun, inspiring and profitable to be an artist.
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At first glance from a distance, Tara Donovan’s aptly titled installation appears to be nothing more than a slightly bulbous, cotton candy cloudscape intent on avoiding definition.
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Julie Bozzi’s paintings at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth feature the quirky humor and fascination for the banal found in, oh, just about every other picture that comes…
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Exploring the intersection of utopian architecture into our culture, Finesilver Gallery has brought together two artists that focus on landscape, isolation, and community.
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David Fulton has made his peace with beauty.
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I like Lubbock on Top’s generous circle-the-wagons sense of community: if these artists weren’t all in Lubbock, they would never show together.
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Air Patterns is a dazzling large scale artwork produced by El Paso artists Susan Davidoff and Rachelle Thiewes. The installation is very much an extension of each artist’s own body…
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The Further Back I Look the Further Forward I Can See, new work by New York artist Steve Hamilton currently showing at the Triangle Project Space, utilizes video and sound…
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Paradise Omeros (2002) and Baltimore (2003), two recent works directed by preeminent British artist, filmmaker, and scholar Isaac Julien, run back to back in the Hudson Show Room at ArtPace…
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Walking into the spacious gallery of the Blaffer when it’s filled with people can be intimidating.
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Once upon a time, Dynamic Coloring Duo Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman struggled against Action Painting Heroes Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning for control of the Art Universe.
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Entering the barrel vault of the main entrance to the Dallas Museum of Art, one is struck by the intelligence with which the current offering of sculpture is arranged.
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Every five days or so, my boys pester me to take them to the grocery store, so they can buy more Sponge Bob toys out of the vending machine there.
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In our post- post- reality, artists are charged with inventing a durable expression so that they can repeat themselves and manifest a public persona.
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Certain old tricks somehow find a way to feel new almost every time they are performed. A love song in a minor key comes on the radio and makes us…
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What is more disquieting: fear of the known, or fear of the unknown? Unfortunately, the people who can answer such a question with any authority are rarely amongst the living.
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The Museum of Modern Art is a one-of-a kind institution, but it has always had two faces.
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“I don’t really care that much about ‘Beauties.’ What I really like are Talkers…. Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something.” Thus wrote Andy Warhol in THE Philosophy of…
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Lo feo de este mundo: Images of the Grotesque presents work from the extensive Latin American collection at the Blanton Museum at UT Austin.
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Nobody wants to look at serious, turgid art in the summertime. Names of exhibitions echo the breeziness of the artwork shown, and Summer Light at dBerman Gallery is no exception.