Category Archives: issue-current

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Past, present, future serve as backdrops for ‘Future Fossils’ Entering the left back gallery of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, you come face to face — quite literally — with a colossal 36-foot mosasaur skeleton sculpture suspended from the ceiling. Walking underneath the skeleton, you suddenly feel very small — both because of the

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Around & About

Southeast Texas artist Sheri Hood Callahan will exhibit her sensitive, and sometimes edgy, abstract paintings as April’s featured artist at Finder’s Fayre Antiques. The show, titled Finding My Way, will reflect her emotional reactions to her inspirations: the oceans and our cattail marsh. Part of the ongoing C.L.A.S.S. series featuring local artists, the show opens

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Keith Carter’s new book celebrates five decades of memories At 320 pages, with 250 photographs, “Keith Carter; Fifty Years” is an epic tome that serves as an autobiography of the Beaumonter’s formidable career. The book is arranged so the images shift between years seemingly at random. “It was my idea to not make it a

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MAKING A KILLING

Documentary and satirical horror examine cost of high-end art market Warning: The following contains spoilers. The high-profile art market is fertile ground for intrigue and drama with its cast of gallerists, critics and big-money collectors. The lowest form of life, it seems, and certainly the least rewarded­­­, are the artists. Two recent movies have turned

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The Art Museum of Southeast Texas will present “Jooyoung Choi: Big Time Dreaming in the Age of Uncertainty,” March 16 through June 2. The exhibition will delight visitors with a mixed media, site-specific installation inspired by Choi’s ongoing investigation of her Cosmic Womb mythology. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Choi was adopted at the age

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