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Monday February 4, 2013

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Bert lived five years into the future! - Paul Stella on "Bert Long, Texas Art Paradigm, 1940-2013"

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David Pagel on Ken Price

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"Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective" opens at the Nasher this weekend. Read David Pagel's glowing review of the same show at LACMA, published last year on our Southern California site:

To visit Price’s quietly ravishing exhibition is to see an American original: A hard-working pragmatist who was also an extremely refined hedonist and a virtuoso combiner of ideas...

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Laura Lark on the Art World's Brokenness (and Everything Else)

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Laura Lark weaves in the Ivory Tower, text in art, shrimping, Zombie Studies, Honey Boo Boo, Trent Reznor...

I fantasize them and Rosalind Krauss being run down by a semi loaded with back issues of October. One can dream.

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Gunilla Klingberg’s Logo Mandala @ Rice

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Rachel Hooper interviews Gunilla Klingberg about her new installation at Rice Gallery.

"The logos... are big chains that look more or less the same all over the world. The logos link us all together. And they are a link between our public and private spheres, maybe even to the collective unconscious."

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AMOA-Arthouse at Laguna Gloria

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Leslie Moody Castro checks out "Shapeshifting" at Laguna Gloria.

Shapeshifting is a funny little show.  While it highlights Laguna Gloria as a bona fide gallery space, it also shows the complications of exhibiting in a space that isn’t necessarily a white cube or a blank slate (not to say a white cube isn’t loaded with its own complications).

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Kiki Smith's Bon Mots

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Betsy Lewis shares her favorite lines from Kiki Smith’s lecture in Dallas last week.

"People say, ‘Oh you’re moving around too much in your work,’ but I’m not trying to get anywhere."

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Juan de Dios Mora Delivers a Chancla Slap to the Face

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Crystal Benavides reviews Juan de Dios Mora’s exhibition “Laters” at the Southwest School of Art & Craft

...Laters delves into an imaginary sub-reality created on the U.S. and Mexico border. His linocut prints depict mechanical vehicles in a projected Mayan end of the world.

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New Houston Shows

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Rachel Hooper highlights the latest round of openings in her 30 Seconds blog.

Fotofest has a moving exhibition up now called CRÓNICAS: Seven Contemporary Mexican Artists Confront the Drug War featuring disturbing images of the human cost of the war on drugs.

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