Email Author Kelly Klaasmeyer

2003 Stories by Kelly Klaasmeyer

• Supreme Show

  published December 11, 2003

  Imagine Russia during the early years of the 20th century. In the dark, gilded interiors of its onion-domed Orthodox churches, the air is heavy... More >>

• Incest Is Wrong

  published November 27, 2003

  Art purists may say, "Why do a show about football?" predicted Museum of Fine Arts, Houston director Peter Marzio, standing in front of a 20-foot... More >>

• Secret Taping

  published November 20, 2003

  The drawings now hanging on the wall at Sicardi Gallery were almost tossed out. Harvey Bott was cleaning out his studio and had a barrel of... More >>

• Image-Free Art

  published November 6, 2003

  Seeing artwork in person is different from seeing it in reproduction. Not just because of the quality of the visual but because we don't... More >>

• Reverberations

  published October 30, 2003

  Panoramas of starkly beautiful desert landscapes, haunting vocals sung in a foreign tongue, dark-haired men in crisp white shirts, women wearing... More >>

• The Eclectic Company

  published October 23, 2003

  In the late 1960s, Sister Corita Kent's Vatican II-inspired messages and supergraphics style started an ecclesiastical craze that led to a... More >>

• Mo' Masterpieces

  published October 16, 2003

  Those blurry slides from second-semester art history survey have sprung to life at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "The Heroic Century: The... More >>

• Extreme Makeovers

  published October 9, 2003

  Today we're hyperaware of learning disabilities of all kinds, but in the '40s and '50s, when artist Chuck Close was in school, kids with dyslexia... More >>

• Blueprints for the Future

  published September 25, 2003

  Danielle Tegeder's paintings are as elaborately named as they are intricately constructed. Try reading this one aloud without taking a... More >>

• The Good, the Bad and the Humidity

  published September 18, 2003

  Humidity. It's one of the defining aspects of life in Houston. It's always there to greet you on your return to the Bayou City. Walk out of... More >>

• Degrees of Whiteness

  published August 28, 2003

  The Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery on Blossom Street is located in one of the few remaining non-town-homed, verdant patches located between... More >>

• Right at Home

  published August 14, 2003

  This was the first year Lawndale Art Center's annual Big Show charged an entry fee. The $15 to enter three works was as much an attempt to keep... More >>

• Peace Through Art

  published July 31, 2003

  When the Art Car Museum presented the thought-provoking exhibition "Secret Wars" shortly after September 11, 2001, it had the FBI dropping by to... More >>

• Body Art

  published July 24, 2003

  People have been drawing people for at least the past 17,000 years. That is approximately when the first known image of a human, a crude stick... More >>

• Popping Along

  published July 17, 2003

  Hear the name James Rosenquist and an image of the little girl sitting under a hair dryer comes to mind. F-111 (1964-65), the... More >>

• Someone's Grandmother

  published July 10, 2003

  In the summer of '92, I wandered into the Rassensaal of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where I was dumbfounded to find myself in the middle... More >>

• Thinking Inside the Box

  published June 26, 2003

  Jeff Shore likes to control his space. In "Livefeed," his fifth collaborative exhibition with composer and programmer Jon Fisher, Shore has... More >>

• POWerful Images

  published June 12, 2003

  As a kid, I always thought Wonder Woman, that ass-kicking female superhero, was so cool. I was never into the comic book but I loved the '70s show... More >>

• Idiot Savant

  published June 5, 2003

  A skinny kid with a shock of blond hair wandered into my undergraduate painting critique at North Texas in the fall of 1989. Vernon Fisher was our... More >>

• The Center of the Universe

  published May 22, 2003

  To move to New York or not to move to New York -- that is the eternal question for artists. But while New York remains the epicenter of the art... More >>

• All in a Row

  published May 8, 2003

  One of the strengths of Project Row Houses' installation program is the row houses themselves. They aren't bland, white, neutral cubes. Shotgun... More >>

• Modern Vintage

  published May 1, 2003

  single family photograph can conjure a host of memories: the taste of dry turkey, wriggling in the itchy dress your mother made you wear, trying... More >>

• Short Stuff

  published April 17, 2003

  The Aurora Picture Show's Extremely Shorts 6 isn't a snooty film festival. "It's open to anyone with a camera," says Andrea Grover, Aurora's... More >>

• Before the Boxes

  published April 17, 2003

  A car on the road to Marfa bears the bumper sticker "I JUDD." Here in Texas, Donald Judd is widely known because... More >>

• Party on the Patio

  published April 10, 2003

  A guard is sitting on the front porch of the Glassell School of Art, resting his elbows on his knees in the fading afternoon sun. Greenish light... More >>