Unmapping Houston
Artists navigate the city’s geography You hear people say Houston is a hard city to love. But, it’s also a hard city to see. When you imagine Houston, at times [...]
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Pump Up the Volume
The Quiet Genius of Harvey Bott and the DoV “All ‘straight’ lines bend through space,” Harvey Bott tells me. That sounds like something having to do with math, and [...]
artiFACTS: May 2012
The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company has been invited to perform on Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out stage on August 25th. This is only the second time a Houston troupe has performed on the prestigious outdoor stage [...]
Editor’s Remarks: May 2012
It’s my seventh issue performing the job of editor, treatment so it’s time to rock the A +...
Editor’s Remarks: April 2012
Art sometimes points the way. Take Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, order ” now guarding McGovern Lake...
Review: Improbable Words
“Improbable Worlds, recipe an Anthology of Texas and Louisiana Poets” Edited by Martha Serpas Mutabilis Press www.mutabilispress.org My...
Review: John Webb “Pile”
John Webb: “Pile” Sculpture Peel Gallery March 2–April 30, 2012 www.peelgallery.org Tendrils, tentacles and vesicles writhe in absolute...
Review: “Happy Happy”
“Happy Happy” 14 Pews March 23, clinic 2012 www.14pews.org “Happy Happy, price ” a cruel and satirical comedy...
Review: Priya Kambli “Color Falls Down”
Priya Kambli’s “Color Falls Down” is one of three new exhibitions to open at the Houston Center for Photography. Part of the FotoFest Biennial 2012, the individual exhibitions by the three photographers all explore the domestic [...]
Review: Amy Blakemore “New Pictures”
Looking at a distant hillside, we see the colors of the landscape fade to the palette of the sky. We know, of course, that should we travel there, we would not find shadowless blue dirt, shadowless blue trees. Those seemingly [...]
Review: Glassell School of Art
At first glance, the Glassell School of Art’s “2012 Core Exhibition” seems disjointed and aimless, the exhibited work like nomadic strangers that have gathered only accidentally under the same roof. This is not surprising [...]
Review: FotoFest 2012 Biennial
There was a chasm, according to the curatorial statement, a trench clawed into the cultural memory that separates the young Russian artists, who started making work in the last decade, from any sense of national continuity [...]