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John Pomara has a solo show at the Barry Whistler Gallery titled off_Key2 comprised of new paintings and photographs incorporating miraculously manipulated images derived exclusively from the computer. Pixel forms floating in isolated color fields somehow eliminate the presence of the artist and defy understanding the technique that [...]
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Culture Clash

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In preparation for his upcoming exhibition at Dallas’ Circuit 12 Contemporary, arts writer Robin Dluzen recently visited the studio painter Ron Ewert, one of the four Chicago-based artists who will be presenting their work in White Noise this November at the Dallas gallery [...]
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Battle Lessons

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War on Film at MFAH In conjunction with its exhibit, WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents War on Film, a series of five films chronicling armed conflict in the 20th century. Given the extensive catalog [...]
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“Not What They Saw in the Movies”

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MFAH’s WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY Surveys Combat, from Advent to Aftermath Standing over a model of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Upper Brown Foundation Gallery, MFAH photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker reaches into one of the dollhouse-sized rooms to pluck out one of hundreds of miniature copies of war-related photographs [...]
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Review: The Italian Girl in Algiers

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The Italian Girl in Algiers Giant hats, a suspended cage, growing sand castles and balloons in the shape of Italy are just a few of the comic objects blown wonderfully out of proportion in Houston Grand Opera’s production of The Italian Girl in Algiers by Gioacchino [...]
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Review: Floyd Newsum

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At Wade Wilson Art, Floyd Newsum presents his latest body of richly-hued, heavily-worked, densely-layered paintings. Many of the paintings are influenced by Newsum’s ongoing interest in the arts of Sirigu, a village in northern Ghana. Throughout the exhibition, collaged elements [...]
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