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Is There an Ethical Path for AI Art?
There is a destabilizing, dreamlike sense of awe in encountering something without knowing the answer to sanity’s most fundamental question: “Is this real?”
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The Canonization of Frida Kahlo
An exhibition blasts apart any crystallized conception of the artist until no easily digestible singular figure emerges.
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Sonya Clark’s Communal Tapestry
A mid-career survey at two Houston institutions redirects discourse from her hair works toward her fiber and collaborative works.
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Jillian Conrad Redefines the Limits of Drawing
Her sculptural “drawings" mark the distance between what we see and how we name it, drawing connections across time and space.
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Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction
A fundamental part of Overstreet's mission was to break free of the flat, rectangular picture plane and the Eurocentric view of painting that dominated American art.
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At Project Row Houses, Art and Basic Needs Go Hand in Hand
Based in Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood, the organization makes art that can seem luxurious meet real, lived necessities.
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Do Ho Suh Picks Up the Pieces
The artist’s imaginative, iterative artworks emphasize the loss that accompanies perpetual displacement — even the kind created by art world success.
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Rothko Chapel Paintings Damaged by Hurricane Beryl
The Houston space will remain closed indefinitely until conservation needs are addressed.
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Artist's Monument to Women Beheaded at University of Houston
It’s unclear whether the attack on Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture is related to protests by anti-abortion groups, which previously denounced it as “satanic.”
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Why Did Art History Marginalize Janet Sobel?
A new show at the Menil Collection in Houston raises important questions about the ways that we remember and historicize artists.
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FotoFest Houston’s Power Lies in What Remains Unseen
For some artists, erasure is a way to restore dignity.
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Texas School Cancels Artist’s Talk After Anti-Abortion Group Complaints
The group said it plans to protest Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander’s “satanic” artwork at the University of Houston.