Email Author Kelly Klaasmeyer

2009 Stories by Kelly Klaasmeyer

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008", "The Paramilitary Show", "Adela Andea: The Green™ cyber web"

  published September 3, 2009

  "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008" The photographs Amy Blakemore takes with a crappy plastic camera can make you cry. Dad (1999) is an... More >>

• Close Call at Mackey Gallery

  published September 3, 2009

  Apama Mackey takes a break from rolling a fresh coat of paint on her gallery's floor. We sit down on the wood deck in the courtyard to talk. There... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008," "Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: Fragmento," "Detritus," "No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston"

  published August 27, 2009

  "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008" The photographs Amy Blakemore takes with a crappy plastic camera can make you cry. Dad (1999) is an... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008", "Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: Fragmento", "Detritus", "No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston"

  published August 20, 2009

  "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008" The photographs Amy Blakemore takes with a crappy plastic camera can make you cry. Dad (1999) is an... More >>

• Quick Pick

  published August 13, 2009

  "North Looks South: Building the Latin American Collection" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston was pulled together in less than two... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Detritus", "Existed: Leonardo Drew", "$timulus", "Toil and Trouble"

  published August 13, 2009

  "Detritus" Painter Angela Beloian and sculptor Jessica Moon Bernstein both employ discarded materials in their work. They're also both... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008," "Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: Fragmento," "Detritus," "$timulus," "Toil and Trouble"

  published August 6, 2009

  "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008" The photographs Amy Blakemore takes with a crappy plastic camera can make you cry. Dad (1999) is an... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Existed: Leonardo Drew," "Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama," "Toil and Trouble"

  published July 30, 2009

  "Existed: Leonardo Drew" This exhibition, on view at the Blaffer Gallery and curated by director Claudia Schmuckli, presents a mid-career... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk," "Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: Fragmento," "Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama," "Toil and Trouble"

  published July 23, 2009

  "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk" You only have to drive past the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to see some of the hippest public art in... More >>

• Beauty in the Abandoned

  published July 16, 2009

  Leonardo Drew hand-built each of the 880 boxes in his sculpture Number 43 (1994). They are packed tightly together, stacked into an... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008", "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk", "Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama", "Toil and Trouble"

  published July 16, 2009

  "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008" The photographs Amy Blakemore takes with a crappy plastic camera can make you cry. Dad (1999) is an... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008," "Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: Fragmento," "Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama," "Toil and Trouble"

  published July 9, 2009

  "Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008" The photographs Amy Blakemore takes with a crappy plastic camera can make you cry. Dad (1999) is an... More >>

• Death by Diana

  published July 2, 2009

  The photographs Amy Blakemore takes with a crappy plastic camera can make you cry. Dad (1999) is an image from "Amy Blakemore:... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk," "Literally Figurative," "No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston," "Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama"

  published July 2, 2009

  "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk" You only have to drive past the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to see some of the hippest public art in... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Anthony Thompson Shumate: Novus Ordo Seclorum," "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk," "Literally Figurative," "Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama"

  published June 25, 2009

  "Anthony Thompson Shumate: Novus Ordo Seclorum" Novus ordo seclorum ("New Order of the Ages") is one of those bits of Latin written on your... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Anthony Thompson Shumate: Novus Ordo Seclorum," "The Art Guys: New Clichés," "Measuring Your Own Grave," Round 30: Home. Space. Place.

  published June 18, 2009

  "Anthony Thompson Shumate: Novus Ordo Seclorum" Novus ordo seclorum ("New Order of the Ages") is one of those bits of Latin written on your... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "The Art Guys: New Clichés," "Literally Figurative," "Measuring Your Own Grave"

  published June 11, 2009

  "The Art Guys: New Clichés" With "New Clichés," the Art Guys present recent work still rooted in the familiar blend of... More >>

• Judge Not

  published June 4, 2009

  I always thought Osama Bin Laden had strangely kind eyes. At least that's how he looks in photographs, and that's how he looks in The... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," "Bryan Wheeler: The Souls of Texans Are In Jeopardy In Ways Not Common To Other Men," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements," "Javier de Villota," "Round 30: Home. Space"

  published May 14, 2009

  "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul" Although the Taliban managed to blow up the Bamyan Buddhas, they didn't... More >>

• Welcome to the War

  published May 7, 2009

  Carolyn Farb stood smiling and chatting next to a mangled corpse on a gurney.The surreal scene took place at the opening of "Javier de... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements," "Henrique Oliveira: Tapumes," "Literally Figurative," "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure"

  published May 7, 2009

  "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul" Although the Taliban managed to blow up the Bamyan Buddhas, they didn't... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements," "Henrique Oliveira: Tapumes," "Literally Figurative," "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure"

  published April 30, 2009

  "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul" Although the Taliban managed to blow up the Bamyan Buddhas, they didn't... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Get a Rope," "My world is really small and you are in it," "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure"

  published April 16, 2009

  "Get a Rope" Named after that famous retort in the picante sauce commercials, "Get a Rope" pulls together nine New York City-based... More >>

• Poster-Sized Post-its

  published April 9, 2009

  Rachel Hecker has made art from the ephemera of daily life — the kinds of stray bits and pieces of paper you find floating around in your... More >>

• Capsule Art Reviews: "Dennis Harper — Ritual Prototypes for the Afterlife," "Get a Rope," "Sarah Sudhoff — Repository," "The Puppet Show"

  published April 2, 2009

  "Dennis Harper — Ritual Prototypes for the Afterlife" Dennis Harper's delightfully subversive installation at Lawndale features a... More >>