Email Author Kelly Klaasmeyer

2000 Stories by Kelly Klaasmeyer

• Flea Smitten

  published December 21, 2000

  Fleas typically inspire little more than creative ideas on how to kill 'em: One ancient Egyptian solution advises coating a naked slave in donkey... More >>

• Cy for Him

  published December 14, 2000

  The fact that you are not required to genuflect upon entering the Menil Collection's installation of "Cy Twombly: The Sculpture" is no... More >>

• Still Life with Mouse

  published December 7, 2000

  Picture a still life -- shiny fruit, pretty flowers, cleverly arranged objects -- the most innocuous of artistic genres. At their peak in Holland... More >>

• The Women's Rooms

  published November 23, 2000

  The last thing I want to be called is a woman artist," says Annette Wilzig. The remark may seem like an attempt to distance herself from her... More >>

• Epic Grids

  published November 9, 2000

  Jennifer Bartlett has formed an unholy alliance with the grid, some sort of Faustian pact to renounce all other forms of composition in exchange... More >>

• In Plane Sight

  published October 26, 2000

  If you were to think of, say, the 100 most exciting premises for an exhibition, aerial photographs of Houston would probably rate No. 99, right... More >>

• Project Crate House

  published October 12, 2000

  If you were one of those kids with a deep and abiding love of Legos, you are going to be terribly envious of Wolfgang Winter and Berthold... More >>

• Timber!

  published September 21, 2000

  Known for its cuckoo-clock industry, half-timber houses and dense landscape of dark pines, the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany is a... More >>

• King of Pain

  published August 31, 2000

  A scar is a record, like an archival document permanently attached to the body and mind. It can be a physical or psychological mark that results... More >>

• Everyday Art

  published August 24, 2000

  Monkey Men from Mars Invade the North Pole is one of many possible names for Erick Swenson's untitled tableau of weird space baboons... More >>

• The Jury's Still Out

  published August 3, 2000

  A juried exhibition is the art-world equivalent of the lottery, but with significantly better odds. Say an artist completes a conceptually and... More >>

• Unmasked!

  published July 27, 2000

  The mask is an object and a concept common to many cultures. It speaks to us because we identify ourselves by our faces, not hands, feet or,... More >>

• Biggers Is Better

  published July 6, 2000

  Walk in the door of the University Museum at Texas Southern University, and The Web of Life, a 1957 mural by John Biggers,... More >>

• De-meaning Objects

  published June 29, 2000

  When viewing the work of Ludwig Schwarz, remember that the response to the classic "Hell, I could do that!" comment is "Well, you didn't." The... More >>

• Sing the Body Electric

  published June 15, 2000

  At least since Paleolithic man carved the fecund shape of the Venus of Willendorf from a chunk of limestone 24,000 or so years ago, human beings... More >>

• Art: The Third Dimension

  published June 1, 2000

  By way of hackneyed intro, a classic definition of sculpture: "The art or practice of creating three-dimensional figures or designs, as by... More >>

• Contemplative Spaces

  published May 18, 2000

  Some people live for NASCAR, and some painstakingly build sailboats out of matchsticks. You see the same extremes in art, from Red Grooms's... More >>

• Home Improvement

  published May 4, 2000

  Curated by Project Row Houses founder Rick Lowe, Twelfth Round of Artist Installations gives free rein to seven artists who take these... More >>

• Caution: Swoon Zone

  published April 20, 2000

  Let's say you hate contemporary art. You really hate it; you find it overrated, inexplicable, absurd, boring, obscure or a classic case of the... More >>

• Young at Art

  published April 13, 2000

  With art derived from crocheted afghans, skateboards and glucose levels, the "2000 Annual Core Exhibition" gives the city of Houston a look at... More >>

• A Room of Its Own

  published March 23, 2000

  The opening of the Audrey Jones Beck Building works into Museum of Fine Arts director Peter Marzio's grand plan to make the institution a... More >>

• Old Age Question

  published March 9, 2000

  The Menil Collection's Willem de Kooning exhibition, curated by Klaus Kertess, seeks to explore the painter's creative process, but winds up... More >>

• Opening Up His Files

  published March 2, 2000

  Miniature golf courses rank right up there with parking lot carnivals in the "antithesis of fun" department. Whacking golf balls into the pouch of... More >>