I have tragic news to report. Following Dennis Tito’s example, someone else has purchased a ticket into orbit from Space Adventures Ltd. The ticket cost buckets of cash. I have…
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Public art rarely expresses public feelings, but two temporary works on Houston’s streets capture the spirit of the moment with disturbing clarity. September 11 left us all shocked and horrified,…
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The genius of Bernard Brunon and Jade Dellinger’s To The Trade exhibit at DiverseWorks is in adapting the trade show genre, designed to display information on business products and services,…
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The music we listen to defines our shared identities even more poignantly than the books we read. There is no more challenging question than the seemingly casual “what music do…
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Even from behind, I couldn’t mistake the stringy, leather-jacketed silhouette of Hills Snyder, watching the World Series at a bar in Terminal D. Turns out we were taking the same…
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Standing just inside the building entrance on Hermann Drive all does not appear as it should. Pillars are painted garish colors. An ominously seductive blue light fixture stands sentry by…
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One of Houston’s more jaw-dropping gaffes on the national stage was a recent promotional insert in the New York Times which only mentioned Houston’s art scene with the following rather…
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Two seconds. The average length of time a spectator spends looking at a painting. A statistic that has received more than its share of reiteration, more than its fifteen minutes…
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Who among us has never dreamt of flying? Can we fault anyone for having this dream? Should not everyone be granted it? We are speaking here of the Dream of…
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Mixture, the new gallery owned by Dan Fergus of Brasil coffeehouse fame and directed by Paul Arensmeyer of Diverseworks fame, opened its inaugural show on Friday with flowers. Chuck Ramirez‘s…
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In East Gloucester, Massachusetts there is a shelf nailed to a telephone pole. A sign above it reads: TRADE HERE / NO CRAP. When I passed by last summer, there…
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Conceived in the placeless, idealized world behind the screen of a computer monitor, Engelstein’s works are closer in spirit to the harsh grid-based constructivism of Burgoyne Diller or Georges Vantongerloo…
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one saw; the other saw by Jennifer Steinkamp scintillates at the front of Rice Gallery like the portentous monolith in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Alaska, by Justin Kidd and Jeffry Mitchell is a low-budget theme park which uses Styrofoam, mirrored Plexiglas, and polyester batting to simulate a stage-set version of an icy wonderland.
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Review
Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings, Dallas Collects, Color in Space, America Responds
by Bret McCabeby Bret McCabeWhen artists migrate to the United States from whatever country and for whatever reason, inevitably the move precipitates a change in their work. Whether that is due to a change…
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By occupying one main gallery and four quadrant galleries at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Wolfgang Laib exhibition involves a physical journey as much as the spiritual qua intellectual…
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Nobody cares about an artist’s personal troubles unless the artist makes them care. With Trenton Doyle Hancock’s work, I begin to care in late 1999, and care a lot by…
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As someone who builds a lot of stuff, poorly, I have a technical interest in Jeff Shore’s works.
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Introducing Orilage by Monica Vidal rings Lawndale’s mezzanine gallery with a row of 6 cut paper swatches in gay floral colors. The unbroken line of similar pieces, all at eye…
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Ironically, I ran into Mark Flood at the SUITS show, like the ghost of Banquo turning up at supper to remind the Art Guys where the body’s buried. In 1991…