"Jason Salavon: Annex and Catalogue" Jason Salavon alters images using software of his own design. In early works, he averaged the colored pixels of ten years of scanned...
When Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24 in 79 A.D., it killed thousands. But it also entombed and preserved an entire culture for millennia. The idea of a city and its people...
"Drawing in Space" For his drawing/performance, "Marker Head Marker" at Lawndale Art Center, Daniel Adame encased his head in a giant chunk of plaster shaped like a huge piece...
Guests arriving for the 2008 Hunting Art Prize gala handed their car keys off to embarrassed-looking valets sporting red and green "artist" berets. As they stepped onto...
"Apertura-Colombia" This survey of Colombian photography and video at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art far outshined the official FotoFest exhibitions of contemporary...
"Apertura-Colombia" This survey of Colombian photography and video at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art far outshined the official FotoFest exhibitions of contemporary...
The words "Houston" and "Curillo" are written on a piece of paper using little circles in earthy shades of green. The letters look like they were blown up from some dot matrix...
"Apertura-Colombia" This survey of Colombian photography and video at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art far outshined the official FotoFest exhibitions of contemporary...
A young man in the jungle is trying to wash the camouflage paint from his face. It's an unusually laborious process for him — he doesn't have any hands. He dips the...
"Craft in America — Expanding Traditions" With a lush catalog introduced by Jimmy Carter, an extensive Web site and an accompanying three-part PBS series, "Craft in...
"Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006" For an exhibition about design, this show isn't very well designed. Organized by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National...
So far FotoFest's official China exhibitions, focusing on early documentary images, propaganda photography and contemporary documentary work, have been surprisingly strong. But...
"Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006" For an exhibition about design, this show isn't very well designed. Organized by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National...
There wasn't exactly a lot of art being made during China's Cultural Revolution, unless you count portraits of Chairman Mao or, maybe, "inspiring" Socialist Realist murals. A...
"Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006" For an exhibition about design, this show isn't very well designed. Organized by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National...
China is the theme for FotoFest 2008 — The Twelfth International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Work. This year, there are 135 participating exhibitions and...
"Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space" This show at the Blaffery Gallery will quietly blow away just about any video installation you have ever seen. Chantal Akerman...
"Aaron Parazette: New Paintings" When Aaron Parazette left Texas Gallery for McClain Gallery, some local artists saw it as a sign of the apocalypse. But Parazette's new...
For an exhibition about design, "Design Life Now: National Design Triennial" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston isn't very well-designed. Organized by the Smithsonian's...
"Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space" This show at the Blaffery Gallery will quietly blow away just about any video installation you have ever seen. Chantal Akerman...
