This week: surreal portraits of childhood by a graffiti artist in Dallas, a group exhibition exploring female experience, motherhood, nature, and the body in San Marcos, a retrospective of forty years of work by a Texas artist and musician in Amarillo, and more.
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Five-Minute ToursVideo
Five-Minute Tours: Two New Exhibitions at Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas
by Glasstireby GlasstireA video tour of an exhibition by Myra Barraza, and a two-person show by Michael Corris and Tino Ward, at Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas.
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The gravity and grandeur that one expects from the "classical" in art can't be introduced into the contemporary without its debilitating sidekick, bathos. We all know that. But where does this leave the artist?
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Daou just manages to steer clear of the saccharine, a quality that stalks elegance in general.
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The resemblance of the bags to “shoppers” raises questions such as who's shopping, for what, what's being shopped?
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The current show at the MFAH's Glassell School isn't all Political Economy 101.
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The recession brought to the city a concentration of young, energetic, like-minded creatives. Now, how do we keep them here?
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GlasstireNews
The Dallas Pavilion: Photos in Venice and the Real Thing at Home
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWell, the Venice Biennale is getting started now and, among other exhibitions, visitors will get to peruse 40-odd national pavilions showcasing artists chosen to represent their countries. Only a select…
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The Socialized Contemporary Artists Bureau (S.C.A.B.) sounds a bit bureaucratic, but this is part of the ironic mirror play and table turning that undergirds this group of artists. By 2012,…
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My grumble with College Art Association conferences is that historically the programming primarily targets art historians. Last year’s New York conference was a notable exception with some of my favorite…
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BlogShelf Life
Dallas’ institutional brotherhood weighs in on Dallas’ art scene at DMA State of the Arts
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekLast night, the DMA hosted its latest State of the Arts panel, on the topic of contemporary art in Dallas. The panel was made up of a brotherhood of institutional…
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This last April I attended a curators’ symposium in Austin during the Texas Biennial. It was a day-long series of panel discussions and presentations hosted by Arthouse, right around the…