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“Pio Pulido: The Last Exhibit of the 20th Century” at the MACC
This retrospective is like visiting an artist’s crowded studio and yet provides just a glimpse of this visionary’s output
Sam Anderson-Ramos
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“Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler: Giant” at the Blanton Museum of Art
The film is good at showing the fate of the film set of Giant, but it leaves open the question of what’s happened to Marfa
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“Young Latino Artists 22: ¡Ahora!” at Mexic-Arte Museum
At a time when Hispanic identity is ever more complex, the artists in “YLA 22” seem pretty sure of their own
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“Garth Weiser: Paintings, 2008-2017” at the Contemporary Austin
In this solo show of abstract works, the painter has pinpointed the ungraspable, like grabbing a tiger by the tail
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“Radiant: A Group Show” at Davis Gallery
In this group show, artists’ odes to the sun, and brilliance in general, provide a sense of life and a lot to think about
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“Greg Davis: India’s Kumbh Mela” at Butridge Gallery
These images offer impressive layers of visual intricacy but also raise the problematic questions of photojournalism
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“Far Out” at Art.Science.Gallery.
This show’s works inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope tell stories, with the device’s hexagonal golden mirrors a recurring visual motif
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“The People’s Gallery 2017” at Austin City Hall
This year’s showing of work in our local seat of government by a small army of artists offers satisfaction on multiple levels
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“En Bola” at de stijl | Podium for Art
The pairings of artists in this Los Outsiders exhibition yield works that are at once chaotic and harmonious, loud and quiet
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“Island Oasis Mirage” at Big Medium
The exhibit by Michael Krueger, Kathleen McShane, and Barbara Weissberger seems a planned mess, but one that echoes a greater scheme
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Anya Gallaccio: to see if time was there at Laguna Gloria
The artist’s giant tree stump carved from limestone is a sign that we love ancient things and are part of nature, too
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“Sean Caulfield: Landscapes: Transformed / Transfigured”
The blackness and voids in the artwork here feels like a future world laid waste, but it also feels like us