Devon Britt-Darby

Devon Britt-Darby is a Houston-based writer and artist.

Devon Britt-Darby

Sean Shim-Boyle: Salt House

Devon Britt-Darby·
Rarely does such a potentially disruptive, even violent architectural intervention feel as organic and sensitive as Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Sean Shim-Boyle’s response to one of the historic Holman Street shotgun houses in Project Row Houses’ Round 38. Reacting to [...]
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Loose Ends: May 2013

Devon Britt-Darby·
Stray Tidbits, Blind Items and Unsolicited Advice Last year’s salutary exhibition American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston played to the MFAH’s strengths, telling a convincing story [...]
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Don’t It Make Those Brown Trunks Blue?

Devon Britt-Darby·
HAA’s temporary public art project highlights trees’ importance I knew there were trees in the green spaces in the Waugh/Memorial cloverleaf interchange; I just never paid attention to them as I entered and exited. The arrival of The Blue Trees, an ephemeral outdoor installation by Australian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos, has changed [...]
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Buy Art! Yes, You!

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Why We Should Take a Seattle Critic’s Manifesto to Heart In December, Seattle critic Jen Graves unleashed a startling manifesto titled Buy Art! If You Have Never Bought a Piece of Original Art, You Are Doing Life Wrong. It raised points most critics in most cities have heard in their [...]
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