For his new, self-titled show, he examines themes of masculinity, and what he calls "the fetishization of the desirable and identity." The principal image is obvious: Cocks.
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In case you missed last year, here's a five-minute summary of some of the more notable Texas art occurrences.
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Another Gallery to Close! Last Show at San Antonio’s Unit B
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentUnit B, which opened its San Antonio location in 2006, has announced that it will close its doors indefinitely “to ponder the future of the gallery and life in general.”…
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The Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH) has announced that it will be closing, effective December 31. The Houston-based organization, founded by Reginald Adams and Rhonda Radford-Adams, has been dedicated…
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Houston Philanthropist and Business Leader Jack Blanton Dies
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentHouston philanthropist and oil executive Jack Sawtelle Blanton died on Saturday at the age of 86. Blanton’s son-in-law told ABC13 that he passed away peacefully at his vacation home in…
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Baggage: “Shoppers” for a Conversational Feast at RE Gallery
by Carolyn Sortor 0 commentThe resemblance of the bags to “shoppers” raises questions such as who's shopping, for what, what's being shopped?
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Hills Snyder visits Ivor Shearer's haunting real world re-shooting of The Road: "You are left with that which cannot be escaped. And it follows you out the door."
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Austin Film Group to Present Mystery Grab Bag of Awfulness Tonight
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) was formed a few years ago to archive 35mm film prints, focusing on the exploitation era of independent cinema—the 1960s through the 1980s (think…
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’70s Video Set to Reinvigorate DIA: You Gotta Have Art!
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentIt’s been months now since Detroit filed for bankruptcy, provoking art world nervousness as many eyed the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), the second largest municipally-owned museum in the United…
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Especially in the low light of the bar’s evening ambience, the salon-style constellation gives the impression that La Carafe is where all souls—good and bad, gloriously joyful and dreadfully serious—come to raise a glass, get at least slightly crooked, and disappear into time.
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Since 2009, Houston artist Carrie Schneider has been working as an arts facilitator for refugee youth from Burma and, for the first time, is receiving funding from the City of…
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Twofer! Texas Storytelling: Ellen Tanner and the Lizard Cult
by Joshua Fischer 3 commentsTanner's incredibly skilled oil on panel paintings at Moody Gallery each tell one of Aesop's Fables, while the Brandon hosts a fascinating look at the "Lizard Cult" of Lee Baxter Davis, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Robyn O'Neil, Georganne Deen and Gary Panter.
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The holidays can very stressful for many folks and provoke behavior that is not quite in the Christmas spirit. For those who had a spat with a loved one or…
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It feels like the viewer is being led down the bizarre maze of invention, where fleeting thoughts flicker like a lotto machine and the art featured happens to be the image we landed on.
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And Now: British Curator Returns to Dallas to Open New Project Space
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentJames Cope, former director of sales at New York’s Marlborough gallery, moved back to Dallas this spring and launched COPE PROJECTS, serving as art advisor and curator. His plans were…
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Video! Virgil and Dante Visit the Nine Circles of Hell. AGAIN
by Cody Ledvinaby Cody Ledvina 0 commentA tour of the popular hells and the famous artworks therein, set to a groovy soundtrack!
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San Antonio Artist FitzGibbons Sues Alabama Development Group
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentBill FitzGibbons recently completed LightRails, a $200,000 public art light installation for an underpass in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Originally, there were plans for three more like it, reports the San…
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UT Ransom Center Receives NEA Grant for Future Exhibitions
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 0 commentThe Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the…
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Big New Work in Fort Worth: Contemporary Art Even Mom Will Love
by Paula Newtonby Paula Newton 4 commentsMartin Creed’s Work No. 1357 (MOTHERS) has been installed at 1401 Foch Street in the Fort Worth Cultural District. Referred to as “Creed’s most ambitious neon project to date,” the…
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Harry Geffert: Studio Dreams at Cris Worley Fine Arts
by Lucia Simekby Lucia Simek 3 commentsAnd as with the sublime in nature, wonder is a big part of the experience of being with Geffert’s complicated work, but there is little in the work that confounds the mastery of their own execution.