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Monday February 11, 2013

Comment of the Week

The work is by Ant Farm as Andy points out. How many financial crooks donate to museum collections? Because the land owner is sub human how does that pervert the art? Rust in peace Cadillac Ranch. - Mark Cranford on "Cadillac Ranch: Another Marsh Victim?"

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Life on the List: Chapter 3

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Michael Bise continues his autobiographical comic about life on the heart transplant list with a special Valentine's Day edition.

Last month marked the one-year anniversary of my heart transplant. This chapter, and indeed, this entire comic is dedicated to all the many people in the art community in Houston and beyond who helped me through this experience. Thank you so much.

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"Radical Presence" @ CAMH

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Kelly Klaasmeyer reviews the about-to-close “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art” at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

[Musson’s] video on relational aesthetics is funny as hell. He starts off explaining it as when “someone with an MFA wants to meet new people...”

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Hillerbrand + Magsamen + kids + pets + plastic possessions

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Jack Thompson shoots husband and wife artist team Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen in their home/video set.

...we cut holes into the walls and doors of our home with hammers and saws and then climbed through them from room to room. The video is finished, but the holes in the walls are still there.

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"Brilliant Lunatic" Zack Carlson

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Peter Lucas interviews Zack Carlson, film programmer for Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, who's ending his eight year run with a screening of a jaw-droppingly odd and amazing film that you’ve never heard of!

" . . . after being temporarily thrown in jail for a third-degree federal felony charge for terrorism, I began my job as a full-time programmer for the Alamo . . ."

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Tell me about your credit card statement

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Carrie Schneider scratches the tip of the psychographic consumer profiling iceberg.

Although the VALS survey revealed that I, for example, must love Rachel Ray and fizzy water, it is not nearly as juicy as some of the other consumer indexes.

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Interview with Todd Kelly

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Matthew Bourbon launches his new blog with an interview with artist Todd Kelly.

I’ve shown it to a lot of people these past few months and I get the impression that I’m the only one who likes it. I guess it’s one of those you-had-to-be-there things.

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In Praise of University Art Shows

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Betsy Lewis presents “Academic Shows That Made Me Curse With Joy.”

Artistic boundaries are pushed and plundered. Academia. Who knew.

 

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Review: Joseph Phillips @ Tiny Park

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Leslie Moody Castro checks out Joseph Phillips at Tiny Park.

He’s exploring the tension between nature and contemporary lifeā€”our need to control it and our romantic desire to embrace it.

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