Naturally Texas
Texas is one of those states that have a mythology all to themselves. The majority of those who...
Visual Art
8 Kids, 2 Punk Rock Fans, a Probation Officer & a Dream
Ben Tecumseh DeSoto’s Whole Mind Workshop Brings Art Where It’s Needed Most Having signed an agreement with the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department not to photograph the kids or use their real names in this story, I ask the three 16-year-olds at the Raul Yzaguirre School for Success’s high-school campus on [...]
Lords of the Ancient Andes
Between AD 600 and AD 1000, long before the Inca, the Wari forged a complex society widely regarded...
Structural Integrity
I have found it to be the case — usually — that works seeking (whatever) or perfecting (style)...
Cohn Drennan Contemporary
Cohn Drennan Contemporary has mounted a stellar show of three strong Texas artists – each with a unique...
Cowboys & Aliens
In his newest show, Resurrected Dreams: Cowboys, Aliens & Espionage, artist Randall Reid seeks to establish visual windows,...
MFAH Inflated Attendance Figures for Years
General Admission Visits Are Less Than 19% of Beck, Law Building Tallies Having spent two weeks poring over annual reports and attendance data, I’ve got good news and bad news about the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [...]
‘Round 7’ at Lawndale Art Center
Why do we copy? Why do we appropriate imagery? Is it inherently different from the source? Perhaps these questions aren’t all asked overtly or even consciously in the Round 7 Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition, but these themes percolate when considering the three artists together. The exhibition features work from [...]
Steve Brudniak: The Science of Surrealism
Comte de Lautréamont was a 19th-century poet whose famously cryptic line – “beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table” – was adopted as one of Surrealism’s aesthetic credos. Nearly sixty years later, André Breton, one of the founders [...]
Clarissa Tossin at Window into Houston & Sicardi Gallery
A common undergraduate exercise for architecture and design students tasks them with going out and taking pictures of “things used as other things.” Jack Lemmon’s character in The Apartment famously used a tennis racket to strain pasta, and I not so famously use an old sewing table [...]
No Paint at Gallery Sonja Roesch
In the 1970s and 80s modern land art was in its infancy, the steel industry was at its peak, and holograms were stunningly cool. No Paint at Gallery Sonja Roesch features a group of six artists whose art practices stem from this era with surprising relevancy and impeccable curation [...]
Kristen Cochran
Kristen Cochran wants to speak in tongues. This might not be apparent at first, health but as you...