No artist ever woke up one morning and spontaneously said, “I sure wish I could decorate an electrical box!”
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Review
Why this Year’s Galveston Artist Residency Exhibition is Different
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechFor three artists so deeply tapped into the cultural consciousness to collectively experience an event as monumental as the election of Donald Trump, bonding and the sharing of a common sense of urgency seems inevitable.
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Painted at a feverish pace, it’s as if Bernhardt is trying to outrun the banality of her subjects, stamping them onto the canvas over and over again until meaning collapses onto itself.
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The Amon Carter's exhibition of the ongoing collaboration between Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo is designed to represent a journey.
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The artists in THREE use considerable wit and pathos, and all of the work in the show is meant to address our current political climate.
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The exhibition contains 120 artifacts made by detainees during the four years of their confinement. Nearly every person interviewed who had been interned said that the only way they could bear their time of detention was by being creative.
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For Eric Zimmerman's solo show at Art Palace in Houston, the artist's choices reverberate with and contemplate the relentless course of history.
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Many of the greatest avant-garde breakthroughs of the twentieth century were being incubated in the kindergarten classrooms of the nineteenth.
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It's a sunny summer show, but these aren't playful kids indulging sweet-toothed fancies.
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News
“Nonperforming Performance Artist” Solves a Small Mystery in Oswald/JFK Story
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonOn the upcoming 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, there has been renewed interest in the life and death of the President, such as the DMA’s thoughtful exhibition Hotel…
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Wherein your narrator is roped into a dangerous collaboration in NYC, by dint of being from Texas.
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Now with two art fairs under my belt, not only does it really hurts when I sit down, but I have also become the world’s leading authority on ALL THINGS…
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Like many far more venerable institutions, San Marco’ Soda Tooth Gallery, not quite a year old, is already refocusing its take on the art community: more community, less art. According…
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A haunted swamp, an ersatz jazz hall of fame and battling saber-tooth cats make up Artpace’s “”11.1 International Artists-in-Residence” projects, curated by Heather Pesanti of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.…
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Lawndale Art Center‘s annual market/design event has evolved into something very, very cool. It started out life 16 years ago (if my math is correct) as the “20th Century Modern…
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From Luminara attended by 300,000 to the Cammie Awards at Chrispark and the Seventh Annual Dignowity Hill Pushcart Derby, Contemporary Art Month is an eclectic celebration of new work by…
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Soda Tooth Contemporary, a gallery started by art students and graduates from Texas State University in San Marcos, is beginning the new year with their fifth monthly show, and hope…
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An enormous inflated creature crouches atop the building housing Marty Walker Gallery. It’s a Macrodon, a creature born from Billy Zinser’s expressionistic, Philip Guston-ish paintings, and brought to life as…
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It’s one thing to know that there are places on this planet that never get dark at certain times of year. It’s quite another thing to actually be somewhere where…
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Plans to save the historic Immanuel Lutheran church building in Houston Heights may include it’s re-use as a new Texas art museum, if a proposal put forward by local engineer…