Christopher Knowles: In a Word at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
January 24, 2018
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Christopher Knowles: In a Word at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

While I was viewing this exhibition, a man approached me with an unsolicited opinion.

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Persona Euphonia: A Messaging Makeover for Public Art of UHS
January 23, 2018
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Persona Euphonia: A Messaging Makeover for Public Art of UHS

So what’s a fitting shape for public art to take, especially in Texas, on the…

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Eclipsed No More: DMA Shines Light on Rare Edward Steichen Murals
January 22, 2018
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Eclipsed No More: DMA Shines Light on Rare Edward Steichen Murals

In 1913, Agnes Ernst Meyer, the wife of financier Eugene Meyer, Jr., and pregnant with…

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Art Aglow: Light Charmer Electrifies Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
January 17, 2018
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Art Aglow: Light Charmer Electrifies Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

A shop owner flips a switch, sending a few thousand volts through glass tubes bent…

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Abstract Horizons: David Aylsworth at Holly Johnson Gallery
January 17, 2018
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Abstract Horizons: David Aylsworth at Holly Johnson Gallery

“I don’t really have a fixed idea when I start a painting,” says Houston painter…

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First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone at the Nasher
January 15, 2018
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First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone at the Nasher

Extraordinary examples of handmade stone tools, some of the first aesthetically-conceived objects known to humankind,…

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Show Up: Michael Golden
January 13, 2018
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Show Up: Michael Golden

“I was like a waiter at a wedding,” Michael Golden laughs, recounting the process of…

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<em>Vincent Falsetta: New Paintings/Sketches 1997-2007</em> at Conduit Gallery
December 30, 2017
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Vincent Falsetta: New Paintings/Sketches 1997-2007 at Conduit Gallery

Anyone who delights in the freshness and immediacy of oil sketches should make a beeline…

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TX Studio: Jimmy James Canales and Megan Harrison
December 16, 2017
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TX Studio: Jimmy James Canales and Megan Harrison

In her description of her artist/partner, Megan Harrison says Jimmy James Canales is “kinda like…

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Show Up: Nathaniel Donnett
December 8, 2017
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Show Up: Nathaniel Donnett

<em>Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s</em> Lawndale Art Center
December 8, 2017
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Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s Lawndale Art Center

Lawndale Art Center’s exhibition Between Love and Madness: Mexican Comic Art from the 1970s, on…

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<em>Tierra. Sangre. Oro.:</em> Rafa Esparza at Ballroom Marfa
December 6, 2017
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Tierra. Sangre. Oro.: Rafa Esparza at Ballroom Marfa

An adobe brick archway made by artists Rafa Esparza and Beatriz Cortez reorients and frames…

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<em>Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely: </em> Gabriel Martinez at Blaffer Art Museum
December 6, 2017
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Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely: Gabriel Martinez at Blaffer Art Museum

In Everything Turns Away Quite Leisurely, on view upstairs at the Blaffer Art Museum through…

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HOME—So Different, So Appealing at MFAH
December 6, 2017
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HOME—So Different, So Appealing at MFAH

The breakthrough exhibition HOME—So Different, So Appealing, a seven-decade survey of works by Latin American…

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TX Studio: Beili Liu
November 29, 2017
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TX Studio: Beili Liu

In her installation for the exhibition Tensile Strength at the Silos in Houston, Austin-based artist…

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FOCUS: Katherine Bradford at the Modern
November 29, 2017
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FOCUS: Katherine Bradford at the Modern

After seeing the selection of recent paintings by Katherine Bradford in the Modern Art Museum…

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Close to the Ground: Lily Cabatu Weiss Leads the Dallas Arts District Forward
November 29, 2017
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Close to the Ground: Lily Cabatu Weiss Leads the Dallas Arts District Forward

Razzle-Dazzle: DMA’s <em>Asian Textiles</em> Breaks Ground with Style
November 22, 2017
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Razzle-Dazzle: DMA’s Asian Textiles Breaks Ground with Style

During the past 10 years the Dallas Museum of Art has hit many important milestones…

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Kiki Smith: <em>Mortal</em> at Dallas Contemporary
November 14, 2017
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Kiki Smith: Mortal at Dallas Contemporary

Mortal, an exhibition of work by Kiki Smith at the Dallas Contemporary, on view through…

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In This Petri Dish: Day for Night Festival Immerses Houston In Art, Music, Activism
November 14, 2017
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In This Petri Dish: Day for Night Festival Immerses Houston In Art, Music, Activism

Day for Night, the music and art festival now entering its third year, has caused…

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The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders at the San Antonio Museum of Art
October 31, 2017
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The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders at the San Antonio Museum of Art

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders began shooting large-format portraits in the late 1970s, using an 8x10-inch camera to…

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The Space in Between: Mona Hatoum at the Menil Collection
October 31, 2017
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The Space in Between: Mona Hatoum at the Menil Collection

Terra firma is Latin for “solid land” but Mona Hatoum is not interested in stability.

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Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star at Moody Center for the Arts
October 31, 2017
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Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star at Moody Center for the Arts

There’s a living room constructed in the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University.

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The Show Must Go on…Somewhere Else: The Post-Harvey Scramble for Space
October 30, 2017
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The Show Must Go on…Somewhere Else: The Post-Harvey Scramble for Space

Rednecks and Circuit Queens, Together: Tito’s Prize Winner Zack Ingram Dares to Dream
October 25, 2017
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Rednecks and Circuit Queens, Together: Tito’s Prize Winner Zack Ingram Dares to Dream

Zack Ingram wasn’t entirely optimistic in spring, when he applied for the inaugural Tito’s Prize,…

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Origins, Rations, Extractions: Paula Luttringer and Gissette Padilla at Blue Star Contemporary
October 23, 2017
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Origins, Rations, Extractions: Paula Luttringer and Gissette Padilla at Blue Star Contemporary

Both Paula Luttringer and Gissette Padilla lived and emigrated from South American countries during eras…

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<em>Dornith Doherty:</em> Archiving Eden at Amon Carter
October 23, 2017
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Dornith Doherty: Archiving Eden at Amon Carter

A black circle fills the frame; a dark void within which small white flecks float.

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A Decade of Surprises: The Refined and Undefined Appeal of Luminaria
October 23, 2017
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A Decade of Surprises: The Refined and Undefined Appeal of Luminaria

San Antonio’s expansive, one-night-only arts festival is turning 10 this year. In a city that…

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Let Your Flowers Grow: Anthony Sonnenberg in Bloom at Conduit
October 23, 2017
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Let Your Flowers Grow: Anthony Sonnenberg in Bloom at Conduit

Slippery truths: Pioneering film and video at the DMA
October 19, 2017
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Slippery truths: Pioneering film and video at the DMA

The opportunity to see film and video in art museums in North Texas has been…

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Crystal Cities: Tommy Fitzpatrick at Holly Johnson Gallery
October 9, 2017
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Crystal Cities: Tommy Fitzpatrick at Holly Johnson Gallery

Tommy Fitzpatrick’s current exhibition Crystal Cities, on view through Nov. 4, includes ten compelling, colorful,…

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Waltz Across Texas: Texas Biennial Covers the State and Crosses Borders
October 3, 2017
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Waltz Across Texas: Texas Biennial Covers the State and Crosses Borders

Texas by the numbers invariably proves irresistible. So does the Texas Biennial, back in its…

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<em>Telepathic Improvisation</em> at the CAMH
October 2, 2017
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Telepathic Improvisation at the CAMH

The animating conceit of Telepathic Improvisation, a film by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz and…

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<em>Tea Ceremony: </em>Tom Sachs at the Nasher
October 2, 2017
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Tea Ceremony: Tom Sachs at the Nasher

Tea Ceremony is the newest body of work by the American artist Tom Sachs, who…

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<em>Acts Of Aggression</em> at Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University
October 2, 2017
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Acts Of Aggression at Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University

A timely and thoughtful exhibition featuring the work of eleven Guatemalan artists across an array…

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Resurface: Gilad Efrat at Inman Gallery
October 2, 2017
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Resurface: Gilad Efrat at Inman Gallery

It has been five years since Israeli artist Gilad Efrat’s last showed at Inman Gallery,…

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Richard Stout’s Homecoming at AMSET
October 1, 2017
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Richard Stout’s Homecoming at AMSET

“I’ve always liked to work from home,” says Richard Stout, the Beaumont-born painter, sculptor, and…

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Genevieve Gaignard’s Passing Identities at HCP
September 28, 2017
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Genevieve Gaignard’s Passing Identities at HCP

Anyone who needs to be forced out of those “comfortable” preconceived notions of identity should…

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Nowhere and Now: Tudor Mitroi at Rudolph Blume Gallery
September 28, 2017
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Nowhere and Now: Tudor Mitroi at Rudolph Blume Gallery

Tudor Mitroi continues to explore time and space in his highly personal paintings on paper…

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Show Up: Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughan
September 25, 2017
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Show Up: Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughan

“We found Charles’s death certificate in the Trinidad municipal library, and the Catholic cemetery had…

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