Saavedra has steadily focused on problems surrounding the divide between authority figures and the marginalized.
"Mark Rothko"
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As we all know by now, the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (commonly known as HERO) was decisively repealed in last Tuesday’s election. The ordinance, according to wearehero.us, aimed to protect “15 different categories of Houstonian…
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An exhibition of works by Polish painter Paweł Dutkiewicz. In his most recent body of work, Dutkiewicz has been “creating expansive, meditative works exuding only light and color, and expanding on…
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“We know how much you love for us to talk about things we don’t like.”
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Back in 1993, in what to my own mind may count as the single most inspired feat of performance art of all time, Pinoncelli had urinated into the sculpture as it lay on display in Nîmes, France.
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It was that AHA! moment, as if I woke up from a winter sleep and was alive, feeling Mark Rothko’s art around me. Wonderful. Powerful. Unforgettable. THANK YOU Mrs. de Menil.
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Hong Kong to Beijing: an Art Fair, Ai Weiwei’s Complex, Monolithic Skyscrapers, the Forbidden City, and More!
Much of the art in China is in a dialogue between East/West and the absorption of modern art history. Duchamp! He seemed to be everywhere.
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For Byzantines, religious works were active, potentially living things. Curator Glenn Peers suggests a Byzantine mode of seeing in which faith takes on a strange, scary, evocative life of its own.
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Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey at Amon Carter Museum of American Art
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekBearden and Homer cleverly spin experience into a something we can all sing—Cyclops, Circe and Nausicaa are recounted in colorful and expressive collages, which take cues from Matisse’s cut-outs and blend them with African tropes.
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Forrest Bess (1911-1977) lived a hermit’s life in a cabin in Chinquapin, Texas. In the catalog for the exhibit Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible, Robert Gober writes, “Forrest Bess lived a life…
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Dallas painter and SMU professor Bill Komodore has died. He was born in Athens, Greece in 1932, and moved to the United States and received his formal education at Tulane…
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Some major paintings from the last two decades of Texas legend Joseph Glasco’s career. Glasco (1925-1996) came to prominence in the early 1950s with his inclusion in the Museum of…
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Abstract oil paintings with videos of the objects in the paintings in motion. influenced by Mark Rothko, John Walker, Georgia O’Keeffe and Howard Hodgkin.
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Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of fine art galleries to visit.…
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Anya Tish Gallery presents the second Houston solo exhibition with Polish abstract painter, Pawel Dutkiewicz. In his paintings and spatial installations, Dutkiewicz seeks to establish a meditative purity by eliminating…
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Where’s Maurizio? might be a more appropriate title for the Maurizio Cattelan exhibition at the Menil Collection. For the show, the Italian artist worked with the (recently-departed-for-LACMA) curator Franklin Sirmans…
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Downsizing: 2010 at The Whitney I overheard someone at the preview say this year’s Whitney Biennial—the 75th edition of the prestigious show—was sculpturally deficient. The Wall Street Journal went so…
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Being here in D.F., as it is known, I feel like I’m being bathed in an atmosphere filled with internationally focused artists concentrating on exploring boundaries, pushing limits and feeling…
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Houston artist Virgil Grotfeldt died on February 23, 2009 after a sixteen-year battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. An exhibition of his last works, Virgil Grotfeldt, 274296, is…
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Last week I went to the opening for Artpace’s first New Works series of the year (09.1 for those of you who love numerals), curated by Trevor Smith from the…