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Channeling the dystopian zeitgeist in all its complexities is certainly an everyday working reality for artist El Franco Lee II, a native Houstonian and DJ Screw aficionado from Houston’s Fifth Ward. From dramatic post facto scenes to striking ta…
Read MoreStepping through the looking glass into an oddly surreal dystopian world has exposed us to strange realities in recent years. Still, we learned to adapt during the challenging journey. Artist Abelardo Morell, whose “Liminal Spaces” show rem…
Read MoreArtist David Simpson’s beautiful, interactive abstract paintings, closely associated with the California Light and Space movement, are currently on display at Houston’s Gallery Sonja Roesch through August 12. In his past life, however, Simp…
Read MoreWriter Ericka Schiche reflects upon the death of Texas Artist of the Year Jesse Lott via conversations with seven art figures who knew him best, including two fellow co-founders of Houston’s Project Row Houses. When a Houstonian thinks of Fifth W…
Read MoreHouston’s abstract art landmarks include French artist Jean Dubuffet’s Monument au Fantôme and Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk. The Philip Johnson and Gene Aubry-designed Rothko Chapel, a tribute to Mark Rothko’s work, is anothe…
Read MoreDescribing Texas in On Juneteenth, Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed writes: “No other state brings together so many disparate and defining characteristics all in one.” Gordon-Reed, a Harvard University professor and native Texan from the Big Thicket…
Read MoreJohn Cage has established himself as an inimitable eccentric nonpareil among music composers, especially of the experimental variety. Likewise, Houston’s jazz maestro Jason Moran thinks outside of the box and challenges the status quo with genre-…
Read MoreAvant-garde Fluxus artist Nam June Paik was a genius way ahead of his time. And we are all living within the futuristic conceptual spaces this innovator envisioned decades ago. Now, director Amanda Kim’s documentary Nam June Paik: Moon is the Old…
Read MoreArtist Lovie Olivia’s exhibit “Interiority Complex” reveals a colorful subterranean world shaped by atmosphere, theory, culture and social consciousness. It is on view at Janice Bond’s Art Is Bond gallery in Houston through this…
Read MoreArtists Walter De Maria and Michael Heizer, embarking on a Western journey through desert terrain, sent a telegram to art dealer Richard Bellamy in 1969. Indeed Bellamy, described as an éminence grise in Judith E. Stein’s book Eye of the Sixties,…
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