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- 05/12/08
A late Picasso painting, The Kiss, 1969, coralled $17.4 million for the Nasher Sculpture Center's endowment at Sotheby's in NY Wenesday evening. A new record, it's the highest price ever paid at auction for a post-1960 Picasso paintin...
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- Bill Davenport
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Nothing Always Happens
La Vie dans la Ville de Plastique
She’s a heartless bitch, this art racket. She’ll
eat your measly soul for breakfast, and bulimically puke it back up for your own goddamn
lunch.
- Titus O'Brien
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Capital A
Swan School: The Matriculation
If you still equate artistic
merit with production quality then you've got bigger problems than this
blog can deal with.
- Ivan Lozano
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Houston Artletter
Let the Games Begin
Never forget that cosmopolitan sophistication, here in Texas, is a fool's game.
- Bill Davenport
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{ Review }
J.M.W. Turner at the Dallas Museum of Art
"In the words of Turner scholar Eric Shanes, 'he was the last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns.'"
- John Devine
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{ The Ten List }
The Ten List: All About Installation Art
"When dazzled by the work of an artist like the late Jason Rhoades or Christoph Büchel,
seriously think about whether your institution can handle this type of work. You want it and
it may be worth it, but do you have the stomach and the resources to
pull it off?"
- Kim Davenport
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{ Review }
Lifting — Theft in Art
"Of course, the most obvious thing to do at an exhibition about stealing
is to steal something, which is precisely what I set out to do."
- Laura Lark
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Atelier 2008
Blanton Museum of Art
May 19 - June 8, 2008
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Joan Winter: Counterpoint
Holly Johnson Gallery
May 10 - June 14, 2008
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Joshua Smith: The Suburbs of t...
Lawndale Art Center
May 9 - June 14, 2008
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Adam Luther: Mad Syndrome
Center for Contemporary Arts
May 7 - June 28, 2008
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Frank X. Tolbert2: Meditations...
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
April 19 - July 13, 2008
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Jaroslav Poncar: Sacred Vistas...
Beeville Art Museum
May 10 - July 19, 2008
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Oliver Lutz
Artpace
May 8 - July 20, 2008
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Unknitting, In the Weave, and ...
Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
April 10 - August 2, 2008
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