Daou just manages to steer clear of the saccharine, a quality that stalks elegance in general.
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She wasn't hired as a security guard, but ended up as project assistant for the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive at the MFAH's Bayou Bend Collection.
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CentralTrak is one of the only university-backed residencies in Texas. With a steady gallery program, and a sense of community through constant creative activity, there is professional energy bubbling.
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Vishal Jugdeo’s A Weight Dangles Above Your Head / A Shaky Picture Has No Weight
I walked into a conversation about the size of an undisclosed man's penis. Jugdeo's installation at the Lora Reynolds Gallery in downtown Austin is worth sticking around for.
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Top five Feb 27, 2014 1. Love Letters in a Tree: Otis Ike & Ivete Lucas Lawndale Art Center, Houston February 28-April 12 Opening: February 28, 6:30-8:30 pm Artist talks…
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The exhibit was gratefully, blindingly, direct and free of pretense.
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Abel Azcona's Utero was far and away the most powerful piece I saw, but parts of it should not have happened.
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One can’t help but think about the lives beneath the story and between the shots, and marvel at what must have been a sort of filmmaking Lord Of The Flies situation in the backyards of Gulfport throughout the 80s.
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There is nothing old hat about going to the Bible for source material. Certainly not the way Paul Bryan uses it.
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It’s akin to that moment in a sceney restaurant when you hear the fifth song that is also on your iPad and you realize…oh, they’re marketing to me.
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This iconic and storied Houston art space ain’t going out without a bang.
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An internal dialogue between the values Grant believes she's supposed to uphold and the internal thoughts that may or may not contradict them. The viewer is just listening in.
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I rolled into Dallas on Saturday, just as many of the city's project spaces and galleries had their openings. It was also the beginning of the Dallas Biennial or DB14.
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I'm using my Glasstire soapbox to jumpstart the discussion by putting a few on the table ahead of time.
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Bianconi entered a black duct-taped box. The box started jerking, being punched or kicked from the inside. Crisply folded white paper airplanes launched from within began peppering the wine-plied room.
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To draw attention to its current exhibition Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is holding an old-fashioned photo contest. Of the 80 works…
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Lacoste, LeTigre and Louis Vuitton are his imaginary friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.
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Who are these people? Where do they come from? What are they hoping to get? Videographer and animator Albert Sosa finds out in his new video series on artworld interns.
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Blogger Transcribes Sheet Music from Tiny Butt in Hieronymus Bosch Painting
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonYes, this is LITERALLY the 600-year-old butt song from hell.
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Seek out these strange and wonderful paintings of a fleeting, uneasy world that embodies a darker side of our state identity.