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Studio Visit: Fernando Casas
Virginia Billeaud AndersonFernando Casas’ teaching schedule in which his current class on “Plato” follows one on the “Philosophy of Art” at Rice University brought a memory of an art historian in a...
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El Cuerpo Sutil: Homage and Brutality
Betsy HueteIt was jarring to walk into Sicardi’s downstairs gallery and immediately make sense of the pairing of two seemingly disparate artists: Miguel Ángel Rojas and John Sparagana. Largely...
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Fungus Forest: El Ultimo Grito
Robert BoydIn the science fiction graphic novel Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, most of the world is covered with a highly toxic forest of bizarre gigantic fungi. The artist, Hayao Miyazaki,...
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Artists Congregating to Discuss Issues
Robert BoydSo this thing is happening tonight. The Artist Town Hall meeting at the El Dorado Ballroom. The hosts describe it thus:The focus of this meeting is to collectively discuss the growing needs...
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Awakened in Mid-Air
Betsy HueteIn its press release, Anya Tish Gallery describes Steve Murphy’s work as “immediate and striking.” No it’s not. His latest exhibition Awakened in Mid-Air peppers the space with the...
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Tableaux Vivants: Corpo Insurrecto (NSFW)
Robert BoydIn 1787, Emma Hart (later Lady Hamilton), invented a new art form called "Attitudes," debuting it at a party hosted by William Hamilton, England's ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples.When...
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VIDA and Pan
Robert BoydVIDA is an organization that supports "women in the literary arts" and has for the past several years been counting how many women are published in and reviewed by literary magazines and...
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You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Robert BoydKen Little has a show up at d.m. allison for a few more days. Last weekend, Little played a few songs on the patio of the gallery. Some were originals, like "Simple America," and some were...
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Curators, right?
"So I [...] fielded calls from functionaries in Scandinavia, Asia, Central Europe, and the Middle east. They offered to fly me business class to their native lands, put me up in hotel rooms with...
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Hunting Prize Nominees
Robert BoydEvery Year, the Hunting Art Prize is given to some lucky painter from Texas. The prize is $50,000. Needless to say, tons of folks enter. The Hunting Prize people have just sent out letters...
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Questions About Casualism
Robert BoydSo for the past two nights I have been sick in bed with a nasty cold. That means I missed a bunch of art openings I wanted to see and I regret that. Next weekend will be a time for catching...
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Lonestar Explosion 2014: They came. I saw, and all of us were compromised....
Dean LiscumThe second Houston International Performance Art Biennale (a.k.a. Lonestar Explosion) took place from Thursday, February 20 through Saturday February 22, 2014. During the festival organized...
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Real Estate Art on Woodland Heights
Robert BoydI haven't done one of these in a while, but this house popped up on Swamplotand caught my eye. It's on Morrison in Woodland Heights, and it is chock full of art. The people who live there...
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The (Dis)pleasure Principle: Staged Decimations
Betsy HueteFrom the early 1990s up until today, Lori Nix has built dioramas. She then photographs them and scraps her creations, the work thus existing solely as the photographic staging or evidence of...
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Train I Ride
Robert BoydThere is a little train in Hermann Park. Hermann Park has had train for decades (I rode it when I was a whippersnapper), but this is an all-new train--somewhat bigger (it can accommodate...
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Robert Boyd"[South Carolina state] lawmakers voted Monday against restoring $70,000 taken from the budgets of the College of Charleston and University of South Carolina-Upstate for assigning a couple...
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Lonestar Explosion 2014 - Untitled by Nikki Thornton
Dean LiscumOpening night of the Houston Performance Art Biennalle was at Box 13 and it began with a set of simultaneous performances by the Houston-based performance art collective Continuum and...
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Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists
Robert BoydThis is a trailer for an upcoming movie about the Chicago Imagists. It will premiere in Chicago in May. HAIRY WHO & THE CHICAGO IMAGISTS - Official trailer from Pentimenti Productions...
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In Review – René Magritte at the Menil
Paul MullanRené Magritte, The Memoirs of a Saint, 1960 (The Menil Collection) In a catalog essay for the major 2006 exhibition “Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images”, held at the Los...
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Gagosian Tweets
Robert BoydGagosian Gallery is actually something like nine galleries, located in several countries on three continents. As of 2012, it was estimated that its annual sales were 1.1 billion dollars....
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