Revolution to Counter-Revolutions: Monet to Matisse at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
September 16, 2021
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Cast against the modern, urbane anarchism of Duchamp, Bacon is a wild-eyed wilderness prophet.
Horn’s works argue an essential point: the pursuit of truth through knowledge is a quixotic endeavor.
The class warfare rhetoric among activist art types is hard to take seriously because it’s so often hypocritical.
There are precious few artists who attempt to create the kind of ambitious mythological gospel that Hancock has been writing…
When Houston really begins to believe in its own artists and puts more of its money where its heart is,…
Look, if you don’t get it, Bell basically tells us, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid. It just means you have…
A lot of artists use building materials to make art, but Terry does a nice job of driving home the…
The subtle beauty of change and tradition in the work of these artists has something to teach us about the…
What happens when, as a critic or artist, you believe the culture and the tradition from which a practice emerges…
The devaluation of individuality, competition and markets is totalitarianism.
I was glad to be reminded that for many artists, art is still about something other than money or politics.
People who don’t know anything about painting should sit down, shut up, and listen to the the artists and critics…
Navigating a historical exhibition like 'Adiós Utopia' can be difficult. The MFAH does a nice job of providing a broad…
If painting's “very definition is in crisis,” I wanted to get to the bottom of it.
These sculptures act like still frames in a larger story that stars, finally, all of the people milling about them…
It really is an indictment of our culture that this seems perfectly natural and incredibly entertaining. And it is entertaining.
There are better and worse ways to stage a revolution. Somehow this all feels so… familiar.
In this historical moment in which democratic institutions around the world are are under attack, programs like the Teen Council…
In Terry Allen’s world, late-night Lone Star-fueled joyrides down North Texas farm roads and small-time criminal escapades take on the…
