Shortly after "Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art" opened at the Austin Museum of Art (AMOA), I kept hearing about a taxidermic dog with wooden legs. Intrigue led to…
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Michelle Gonzalez Valdez
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The San Antonio new media duumvirate better known as Potter-Belmar Laboratories took a moment to talk to me about new media in TX. Leslie Raymond, head of the new media…
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Marie Lorenz fabricated a small, precarious kayak and floated down the San Antonio River along the Riverwalk. She consistently revisits themes surrounding waterways, boats and navigation. The New York-based artist…
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San Antonio artist Bettie Ward collaborated with a family of artisans in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, to create many of the works from the narrative embroidery series entitled The…
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Black holes, the paranormal and the cosmic ether all dwell alongside the elusive and sometimes unfathomable stuff called dark matter. It’s a perfect leitmotif for a group of obscurant Japanese…
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"Affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other." Charles Dickens, 1844 Uncovering a bright new talent isn't always as gratifying as revisiting an established discoverer. The…
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Critical Art Ensemble offers readers a book so incendiary that the United States government confiscated the first draft under Section 175 of the US Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act. Here the…
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Teleology, according to artist Jason Villegas, miraculously manifests inside the spanking new space at Okay Mountain in east Austin.
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Levity and laughter often strike the funny tuning fork of our lives, and Lora Reynolds Gallery finds the perfect pitch with the new group show aptly titled SLAPstick.
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Invective exists sporadically in the doldrums of art criticism, and curator Tom Humphreys seems to be soliciting such treatment with the current display at Triangle Project Space. The tepid premise…
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Reconstructing the Mundane breaks open quotidian objects and traditional spaces to introduce three artists to San Antonio. As you enter Unit B (Gallery), Brian Dettmer's dissected volumes of once-forgotten encyclopedias…
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The stretched vocal chords of the yodelers and folk singers of yore fill the stifling air of Sala Diaz like a Depression-era sandstorm.