Review: John Cage at Hiram Butler Gallery
It goes without saying that John Cage’s reputation as one of the 20th century’s most influential and innovative...
Visual Art
Response: Picasso Black and White
Along with its exploration of Pablo Picasso’s lifelong engagement with monochrome and grisaille, Picasso Black and White at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, represents perhaps the most unsparing yet nuanced critical examination to date of the relationship between the Spanish master’s alleged misogyny and his seemingly [...]
Review: Marzia Faggin at d.m. allison art
Houston artist Marzia Faggin made a splash in 2011 with her Nau-haus Art solo show of life-size painted cast-plaster still lifes of potentially addictive pills like Lithium, Xanax and Adderall, which she juxtaposed with equally convincing replicas of equally addictive chocolates, cookies and other sugary snacks. Dissatisfaction, her follow-up [...]
Review: The Abstract Impulse at the MFAH
Amidst the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s high-profile goings-on – the Prado exhibition (through March 31), the Picasso show (through May 27), WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY’s U.S. tour and the MFAH’s participation in South Korea’s first historical American art survey [...]
Review: Gunilla Klingberg at Rice Gallery
It’s no secret that corporate logos abound in the modern consumerist landscape of America. It’s not every day...
Ken Price Sculpture
Nine hundred enthusiastic art lovers filled the Nasher Sculpture Center last week for a “grand” opening well worth...
Review: Michael Miller “Out of Commerce”
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas The MAC’s Square Gallery Show – Michael Miller: Out of Commerce – is...
Review: Jennifer & Matthew Guest
Jennifer and Matthew Guest: Doing Wrong Right Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas January 12 – February 24, 2013 Cracked...
Review: “Environs”
Cohn Drennan Gallery, Dallas “Environs” presents the work of three artists and it’s readily apparent that one is...
Review: Victor Vasarely
“Optical Spaces: The Art of Victor Vasarely” MADI Museum, Dallas Victor Vasarely, who was born and died in...
Chalk it Up to Creativity
New York-based artist Gary Simmons is known for his “erasure” technique, which he began using in the early...
Painting of All Excuses
When the gallery is quiet, diagnosis after the buzz of the show is over, pharm the art hangs...