In 1897, Oofty wolfed down an entire quail in one sitting each night for 30 days, finishing off each bird by downing eight glasses of beer using a spoon and smoking a cigar in less than six minutes.
"Yves Klein"
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A 90 year-old artist who says he is telekinetic: the work is not only not cheesy but wholly convincing.
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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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Two customized remote-controlled monster trucks will be used to restage Yves Klein’s performance/paintings Anthropométries, in which the artist used female models as mediums for the paint. The audience will be…
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It is the most unsurprising and natural thing that, in our consciousness, we would conjure something in the universe, over and over again.
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Despite a "stormcloud of jaded hesitation," Brian Fee has a close encounter with Austin's new Turrell Skyspace.
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Most of the works are some version of a flattened blob of cast concrete, cradling a block coated with either colored sand or crystals. They could as easily be religious relics as construction site debris.
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A twister sweeps across a sepia-toned Kansas and suddenly Dorothy enters Technicolor. In Victor Fleming’s 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” Dorothy, opening the door into Oz, along with…
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On Black Friday, while millions were buying iPads for their six-year-olds and guns for their holsters (handgun sales broke an all-time record this year), I was staring at art in…
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Can I admit that I get a major kick out of this image? That I am thankful for it? Can I say this without losing a significant portion of the…
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I’ve never met Stephen Kwok, but I was drawn into the work on his site enough to go visit his solo show, “Walled Garden” at Fresh Arts (formerly Spacetaker) until…
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So, I grew up on this tiny liberal arts college campus that was on an old 18th century farm in almost-rural New Hampshire. There was a legendary ghost, Emma, that…
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Sources confirm the booking of Pepe, the Glasstire Pony for the opening of the TX Contemporary Art fair this Thursday evening. Although Pepe, (or Trigger, we’re not sure which) is…
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From January 13 to February 4, 2011, a table of patrons in the second-floor cafeteria of the Museum of Modern Art ate the exact same thing: “a tuna fish sandwich…
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Drawn from the Menil’s archives and permanent collection, Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance is conceived and organized by Associate Curator Michelle White. Almost 40 works by…
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This Friday, April 9, Aurora Picture show founder and "migrant curator" Andrea Grover is putting together an outdoor screening of cinematic works from the Menil’s archives in conjunction with "Leaps…
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“Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance” at the Menil Collection is a show you won’t see anywhere else in Texas, or most of the U.S. for that…
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Spring 2010 prognostication. Austin New Works Series with Luke Savisky and Okay Mountain Austin Museum of Art Upcoming Spring Okay, the Austin Museum of Art gets a tough time from…
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Organized by Michael Auping, Chief Curator of the Modern, and includes: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.
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I recently sat down with Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, to discuss (among other things) Declaring Space, his revelatory exhibition of four artists…