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Drawings!: My Favorites From Houston 2012
By Rachel Hooper on December 29, 2012
There has been a lot of excitement about painting in Houston this year, with Aaron Parazette’s In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery and a big exhibition planned for the CAMH’s 65th anniversary. But what about good old drawing? Often more humble and imaginatively evocative than painting, there have been some outstanding drawings shown in Houston [...]
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Dispatches from Documenta: Apples and Conspiracies
By Rachel Hooper on July 30, 2012
Every five years, the German town of Kassel is transformed into Documenta, a sprawling, intellectual exhibition considered a must-see by curators, collectors, and critics the world around. This year, I had the opportunity to go there and see it for myself. And to be honest, I found out I had a lot of misconceptions about [...]
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Liz Rodda “Tomorrows” at Brand 10
By Rebecca Carter on July 21, 2011
An orchid is dying. Its brown bloom stalk leans over a stacked set of studio monitors resting on the gallery floor. Lionel Richie’s crooning ballad overtakes the quiet buzz of three Chinese fortunetellers speaking through three monitors laid out diagonally across the main gallery space controling the flow of traffic like a Robert Morris sculpture [...]
Posted in Blog, The Open Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged Brand 10, china, fortune teller, Lionel Ritchie, Liz Rodda, mark lombardi, matt clark, Rebecca Carter, Robert Morris | 2 Responses