Show Up: Shayne Murphy
“Do you know the stereotype that any male who’s approaching his mid-30s becomes really interested in World War I or World War II?,” Shayne Murphy laughs sheepishly, including himself in this group.
Visual Art
Learn/Imagine: Pablo Helguera at DiverseWorks
Pablo Helguera's exhibition The Fable is to be Retold at DiverseWorks (on view through Nov. 19) opened with a performance recital in five parts, each of which considers the ways we learn and imagine, evoked through the lens of youth.
Collages of Consumption: Lucie Stahl at Dallas Museum of Art
Lucie Stahl, Critic’s Pick, 2014, Inkjet print, aluminum, epoxy resin. The next person you see rummaging through trash...
Projecting Poetry: Pablo Gimenez-Zapiola’s Eastext
When Pablo Gimenez-Zapiola arrived in the United States from Argentina in 2002, he had with him three hundred dollars and a bicycle.
Houston Makes Room for Two New(ish) Galleries: Capsule Gallery + Cindy Lisica Gallery
Two gallerists have set up shop over the last year on the Houston scene: Cindy Lisica of Cindy Lisica Gallery, and Sarah Sudhoff of Capsule Gallery Cindy Lisica Gallery joined the 4411 Montrose cluster alongside Anya Tish Gallery, Barbara Davis Gallery, David Shelton Gallery, and UNIX Gallery, while Capsule Gallery is located in the Isabella Court complex in Midtown, with neighbors Inman Gallery, Kinzleman Art Consulting, Samara Gallery, Art Palace and Devin Borden Gallery.
Some Memories are Painful: Jenny Vogel at The Reading Room
Jenny Vogel, In the Absence of Bodies. Installation view. Photos by Kevin Todora. Jenny Vogel In The Absence...
Renaissance Woman
This past July, Rebecca Rabinow, who grew up in Houston, stepped into her new role as director of The Menil Collection.
The Honesty of Rocks: Crit Group at GrayDUCK Gallery
Amber Shields, DAY TRIP, 2008, pigment print, 20 x 24 in. Image courtesy of the artist © 2016...
Geography and the Heterogeneity of Mexico City: A Discussion with Leslie Moody Castro
For centuries, Mexico has been an edifying hub and home to many globally recognized talents.
The ACTX Top Ten: September 2016
A+C TX's top ten picks for arts and culture events happening across Texas in September 2016.
Painting As She Goes: Marcelyn McNeil’s New Works at Conduit Gallery
“I’m not a sarcastic painter,” Marcelyn McNeil tells me near the end of our conversation in her east Houston live/work space. She has just finished explaining the title of her upcoming solo effort at Dallas’ Conduit Gallery. Love and Theft, on view Sept. 10-Oct. 15, is a nod to her commitment to the old-school practice of painting and an acknowledgment of the constant appropriation and regeneration of formal abstraction in today’s teeming art world.
Color Fields: Gabriel Dawe Branches Out At Amon Carter
Gabriel Dawe spent two weeks in August scaling the Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s atrium, suspending one thread at a time. The exhibition, Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 34, is on view through Sept. 2, 2017.