I’ve missed this.
Betsy Huete
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Review
“Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves” at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteThere's a meta-conversation happening within Reaves’ work that may not make her the best candidate for this kind of cross-conversational pairing.
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Her classes made art feel like a world full of possibilities — a new language through which one can discover herself.
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[Sponsored] The New MFA in Social Practice Art at Sam Houston State University
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteSHSU will be a pioneer in the field: it will be the first and only Texas university to offer this degree program.
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The exhibition calls up centuries' worth of folklore deeming noontime the most foreboding hour of the day.
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Interview
Deep Space, Deep Listening, and EarthSeed: An Interview With Lisa E. Harris
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy Huete"The moment we listen, we care about ourselves. How resistant is that?"
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[Sponsored] V….Vaughan at Rockport Center for the Arts and Rockport Art Festival
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteVaughan’s plein air subjects derive from all over the U.S., but she gravitates toward the countryside lining the Texas coast.
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Review
A Texas Hurricane, and Virginia Lee Montgomery’s SKY LOOP at Lawndale
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteSpinning like a storm, Montgomery's show cycles us through our love affair with cultural memory and collective consciousness, as well as its perversion.
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[Sponsored] Gaye Lynn and Michael Hodgson at Rockport Center for the Arts
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteThe crux of the collaborative practice of Gaye Lynn and Michael Hodgson, over thirty years in the making, is that eating and drinking is a performative act that should be honored.
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In the survey up now at the Blaffer, we feel the myriad ways in which this young gay black man grapples with representing his identity, and that representation’s relationship to art history.
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Young, impressionable artists are being asked to articulate their work when they aren’t and shouldn’t be ready.
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There should be a certain degree of murkiness from which an artist thinks and makes.
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[Sponsored] Greg Reuter’s Fundamental Facets at Rockport Center for the Arts
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteFor both Reuter and Rockport, the show is a kind of homecoming — a way to honor and engage with an already tight-knit community that endured a painful and life-altering event.
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Review
Justin Favela’s Food for Thought About Our Relationship with Tex-Mex
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteFavela's show at HCCC sifts through the complications, appropriations, and mutations of what is most Texans' favorite food group.
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The exhibition asks us to consider queerness not so much as a static definition, but instead through the lens of a dynamic, ever-evolving narrative.
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[Sponsored] Tyler Vouros’ Tenebroso at Rockport Center for the Arts
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteVouros' drawings are rife with quiet drama, and teeter between storybook wonder and the heightened precariousness inherent in the natural world.
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Review
When I Breathe, I Draw: Roni Horn at the Menil Drawing Institute
by Betsy Hueteby Betsy HueteDoes the word “background” in Horn’s description of her use of language here as “background noise” really indicate an auxiliary purpose? I don't believe it.
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Why does a world-class art city (not to mention the most diverse city in America) put up with such shitty and saccharine public art?
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Here Hewitt asserts an oft-overlooked concurrence: the civil rights era and minimalism.
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With such a relatively small selection of works comes the expectation that the show would be exceptionally tight — and it isn’t.