It’s hard not to like Phoebe Washburn’s behemoth installation at Rice University. But why? Trash-repurposed-as-art, the-ugly-made-beautiful, garbage landscapes and a recycling aesthetic — start describing Washburn’s shows in generalities and…
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Two contradictory visions inform Roxy Paine/Second Nature.
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The new building for the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth opened to the public on December 14, 2002. It is 153,000 square feet, on an 11-acre plot located across…
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The marriage of obsessive craft to rote form in quilts usually sends me screaming from the room. Why then have I been back to see The Quilts of Gee’s Bend…
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The title of Paul Kittelson’s The Next Supper is revealing.
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In The Nation’s celebrated Big Media issue from this past January, there was a sobering fold-out chart depicting the “conglomerate multimedia stables” of Big Ten multinationals like AOL Time Warner,…
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There is resistance to Paul Horn’s art. I know because I resisted it too. I remember skulking around the UH studios a while ago and seeing his plastic cereal bowl…
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The human hand is a curious thing. It’s fringeware design allows us to count up to five, an ability which came in handy when it was time to organize perception…
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More than half of the newly Americanized and/or newly talented artists featured in this year’s Texas Fine Art Association exhibition of New American Talent are over 35 years of age.…
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In spite of the wealth of media artists use today, painting remains the one by which we judge the health of contemporary art. If you don’t believe me, recall for…
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Thomas Struth 1977-2002, currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, reveals the photographer’s astute ability to capture the temperament and interconnectedness of his subjects’ documentary elements. His bodies…
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A patch of animal fur on one painting was what first caught my eye. When I read the title, Still Life with Buffalo Fur, I was hooked. At 6 x…
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One of the most satisfying aspects of When 1 is 2: the Art of Alighiero e Boetti is the sheer diversity of the work. While the divergent paths of Boetti’s…
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For pristine grid paintings, they’re quite yucky. Melissa Thorne takes three afghans and a quilt and renders them in immaculately smooth acrylic paint on canvas, making a straightforward translation of…
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Like a staged civil war battle, Kennaugh paintings are complete to the smallest detail, except for the blood.
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Hip detachment is usually a cover for insecurity. This isn’t necessarily bad, as insecurity is the defining emotion of our uncertain culture. With unusual honesty, Brent Steen’s show at Inman…
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While viewing Susie Rosmarin’s recent exhibition “Paint By Numbers” at Boston’s Bernard Toale Gallery, my mind kept wandering to the music of Dimitri From Paris. Two years ago, he released…
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It was the time of Joe Ely’s Tornado Jam. My friends and I frequented a bar in Lubbock called Fat Dawg’s and jammed to Joe King, The Nelson’s, and whoever…
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Lance Letscher’s recent work at Howard Scott Gallery in New York city is a testament to the fact that art needn”t be rich in concept to be visually pleasing. With…
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The modular network of caves in the real Tora Bora are as well stocked and maintained as any Bond villain could have done. Far from bare rock holes, the caves…