Email Author Kelly Klaasmeyer

2003 Stories by Kelly Klaasmeyer

• Rules of the Game

  published April 3, 2003

  To make megabucks in the music business, it's a good idea to have your fingers in more than one pie. Rap artists design clothes; rock stars buy... More >>

• Fusion Art

  published March 27, 2003

  Through April 12 at Texas Gallery, 2012 Peden, 713-524-1593. More >>

• In Your Face

  published March 20, 2003

  Through March 30 at the Contemporary Arts Museum, 5216 Montrose, 713-284-8250. More >>

• Consumer Culture

  published March 6, 2003

  Kiss your remote good-bye. Heretic Brian Heiss wants to do away with that ultimate convenience and fundamentally alter the way we interact with... More >>

• The Strategy of Sarcasm

  published February 27, 2003

  Basic geometric forms, truth in materials, the removal of evidence of the artist's hand through industrial fabrication -- these are the hallmarks... More >>

• "In Between Mass and Void"

  published February 13, 2003

  This show could be subtitled "Six Men Make Big Heavy Objects," except many of the sculptures aren't what they seem. Butch Jack's wall disks, which... More >>

• Room to Grow

  published February 6, 2003

  Wall space, the final frontier. Emily Joyce is taking full advantage of Sheetrock square footage in "Operation Eracer," her exhibition at... More >>

• Laurent Boccara

  published February 6, 2003

  Born in Tunisia and educated in France, Laurent Boccara spent his early years working as a field archeologist in Israel, Europe and the United... More >>

• The Art of War

  published January 30, 2003

  If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out" -- law number 196 from the Code of Hammurabi. Some 3,700 years ago in what is... More >>

• Yigal Ozeri

  published January 30, 2003

  Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper has disappeared, according to artist Yigal Ozeri. Most of us know the Last Supper through its muting... More >>

• Ties That Bind

  published January 23, 2003

  According to Sanford Biggers, Buddhist monks and graffiti artists aren't as different as you might think. Take O.M., for instance, the... More >>

• Randy Twaddle

  published January 23, 2003

  Randy Twaddle's charcoal drawings depict curled slips of paper like those found inside fortune cookies. But the artist's messages don't predict... More >>

• Upside-Down Frown

  published January 16, 2003

  The spirit of Count Orlock meets the smiley face in "Yesferatu," Hills Snyder's exhibition at Gallery Sonja Roesch. But Smiley, that sunny... More >>

• "Recalling Row Houses"

  published January 16, 2003

  Sit back in a rocking chair and listen as voices from the Third Ward, including musician Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and artist Jesse Lott,... More >>

• Kathleen Gilje

  published January 9, 2003

  Texas Gallery is showing works by Rembrandt, Mantegna, Rubens and Holbein -- sort of. Kathleen Gilje paints dead-on Old Master facsimiles, but... More >>

• Deen's List

  published January 2, 2003

  Georganne Deen hit puberty in mid-'60s Fort Worth. She was part of an affluent and conservative family -- her grandfather was a four-term mayor... More >>

• "Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland"

  published January 2, 2003

  In Lady with an Ermine, a coolly elegant young woman of 500 years ago sits clutching a silky weasel. She is thought to be Cecilia... More >>