Cowboys & Aliens
In his newest show, Resurrected Dreams: Cowboys, Aliens & Espionage, artist Randall Reid seeks to establish visual windows,...
Visual Art
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...
Review: Henry Finkelstein
Explosions of color and expression are de rigueur for the work of painter Henry Finkelstein. His fifth solo...
Eye of the Beholder
Cindy Sherman is arguably the preeminent living photographer in contemporary art history and, on March 17, the Dallas...
Top Honors
Finding a venue to show one’s work is a challenge for any visual artist. Nine young artists at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts recently received such an opportunity from Lola Lott, the CEO and Co-Founder, with Jack Waldrip, of charlieuniformtango, one of the [...]
The Women’s Movement
Galleri Urbane’s current show, order Allie Pohl’s Ideal Woman, mind is more than meets the eye. Upon first...
Exploring an Odyssey
In 1977, thumb Romare Bearden (1911-1988), view one of the most powerful and original artists of the 20th...