Geoff Hippenstiel: Territorial Pissings
Much has been made – by me as well as others – of the way Houston artist Geoff...
Visual Art
Seeing Red
It is 1958 and New York City is on the rise, literally and figuratively. With the influx of...
Get Looped
A 4,000 mile journey, a baby-smuggling clown and a post-modern Medea: Out of the Loop returns to Addison...
Review: Jay Shinn
Minimalism is easy to enjoy. Such works, mind as privations of fussiness and excess, hospital usually educe somewhat...
Stern Stuff
Architect Bill Stern Asked ‘What Kind of City This Was to Be’ – And Built Accordingly When I...
Conversations in Movement
Lucinda Cobley and Teresa Chapman Team Up at Wade Wilson Art A casual chat between painter Lucinda Cobley and choreographer Teresa Chapman at a Galveston party prompted a collaboration, Shifting Spaces, an excerpt of which will be performed on March 28 at Wade Wilson [...]
Ceramics in Concert
Annual Conference Prepares to Cover Houston in All Things Clay Fresh on the heels of the NBA All-Star...
Bodies in Motion
CAMH’s Parallel Practices Spotlights Joan Jonas and Gina Pane Curator Dean Daderko muses that firsthand interaction with a human body may be something that people are missing today, adding that, in an age in which signing petitions online counts as a form of activism, people sometimes [...]
Buy Art! Yes, You!
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 [...]
Review: Jason Flowers’ “Critique Machine”
While some works are made with a wide audience in mind, others are addressed toward smaller communities, like fellow artists. And for both better and worse the content and presentation of Jason Flowers’ “Critique Machine,” in the Project Room at Conduit Gallery [...]
The Price of Beauty
Because of the caliber of the Nasher Sculpture Center, it is one of the three museums in this...
Review: Howard Sherman, Artist Picks
Native Houstonian and painter Howard Sherman affirms his talent for visual decision-making in an exhibition of paintings that mostly aren’t his own. On view through March 22 at Alliance Gallery, Howard Sherman: Artist’s Picks features one of his canvases alongside the work of six local [...]