VBB latest event fashioned an interdisciplinary exhibition spaces out of a house in Houston's near Northside.
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To reintroduce a passé subject without the crutch of irony or impressive technical skill is a challenging task. Bodycomb needs to channel her inner Hitchcock.
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Vélez's work at Oliver Francis Gallery has a simple aesthetic: angry and loud.
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No Walls: the Expanded Curatorial Practice of Michele Monseau
by Sarah Fischby Sarah FischThe rejiggering at Blue Star has transferred Monseau's energy to an expanded and exciting pop-up curatorial practice.
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Maybe it’s some kind of retro zeitgeist but these circa-1960s sculptures seem incredibly contemporary.
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1. Zoe Leonard: 100 North Nevill Street Chinati Foundation, Marfa Through December 31, 2014 Make plans now to see Leonard’s remarkable camera obscura installation — if you missed her in…
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Largely Abandoned Conventional Titles (BlueBerry-Acai EDM + Omega-3): Jaakko Pallasvuo
Pallasvuo's "Nu Paintings" are a virtual call to arms.
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When all the spaces are digitally rendered in high resolution, belief will be moot, the equation will be solved, and ghosts really will cease to exist.
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Houston artist Jon Hopson is opening a new commercial gallery space in Houston this summer. Hello Project will be located within the venerable McMurtrey Gallery‘s former project and storage space.…
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GrayDUCK re-opens with Leigh Ann Lester's new works that toy with classical botanical drawing, nearly falling prey to the lures of that historical genre.
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Though these lurching masses and ethereal constructions are assembled collections of junk, the space is anything but a hoarder’s trove.
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MARK FLOOD UPDATE: A couple of weeks ago, Glasstire reported that Houston artist Mark Flood is funny and, a few weeks earlier, we reported that Mark Flood knows how to…
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No genre of work is spared the tongue-in-cheek slight of becoming a roadside attraction.
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Interactive works in Dallas storefronts did their best to mess with passersby by sneering and slithering, spewing and squealing.
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Interns on Video: Emilee Cooney, Auction Assistant
by Albert Sosaby Albert SosaEmilee Cooney, auction assistant at the Houston Center for Photography, talks about the behind-the-scenes choices and preparations that go into HCP's annual fundraiser.
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To Glasgow from Austin with love. Michael Smith’s Video and Miscellaneous Stuff from Storage (pt. 2) at Glasgow International 2014
In the States, Mike is an Everyman, but in the UK, Mecca of dry humor, Mike is every American.
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So long Pollock! See you later Franz Kline! Art-sports spectacles are proliferating like NFL playoff slots!
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Completely over the top, it seemed headed on an accelerated train to boring queer performance art, but boychild used this emotional detritus to perpetually construct masks and build identities.
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The gesture of extending a bouquet to women lost and forgotten is a lovely one, but being tethered to housework seems less of a problem today than the thigh gap craze or persistent male/female wage discrepancies.
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Images from Houston's annual rolling group show, the Art Car Parade.