Art
WOLS: Retrospective
The Berlin-born Parisian artist Wols worked during a war-torn era when the art world’s center was shifting to...
The Sweetest Taboo: Colette Copeland, Gabriel Martinez, Angela Fraleigh, Libby Rowe
The last time anyone thought about masculine stereotypes in the art world was when, inspired by the obtuse adjacencies of Time-Life magazine cut-outs on the floor, Richard Prince re-photographed pictures of male models in the late 1970s.
México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990
México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990 is a tour de force of ambiguity. As a show with work by 23 artists connected to Mexico it runs the risk of being a politically-correct art-ghetto based on geographical stereotypes.
TX 13 Group Survey Exhibition
With 13 curators and about 70 artists, the TX 13 Group Survey Exhibition is a cacophony of sounds, images and styles that tries for the first time to jam all the artists selected in a statewide open call for the Texas Biennial into a single space — the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum.
LAYOUT #2
ark Bradford enrolled in California Institute of the Arts in 1991 as an adult student. He was a...
Sydney Skybetter and the Hacker Ethos
Sydney Skybetter is a keynote speaker at the 2013 Houston Arts Partners Conference, on Sept 13-14 at Houston...
Open Season
Some people say ideas are a dime a dozen.
The Idea Fund says they are $3,500 each and, with help from a special initiative of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, it is putting that money directly into the hands of Texas artists. As a result, some of the state's most provocative or otherwise unexpected imaginings are being made real.
Natasha Bowdoin: In the Garden
There are various kinds of fabrics and fabrications, health from metaphoric to material, structural to ideological, social to...
Majority Rules: A Decade of Contemporary Art Acquisitions
At first glance, order the McNay Art Museum’s Majority Rules: A Decade of Contemporary Art Acquisitions reads merely...
FotoFest Discoveries
There was only one other person in the exhibition space with me, but she was otherwise occupied. Talking in hushed tones on her phone, she scribbled away in her date book. Technically, we were in the lobby of an office building, so her behavior wasn’t out of order. Have public lobbies become the only private spaces skyscrapers have to offer? Judging by the amount of people I saw pacing behind the temporary gallery walls, I would have to say yes.