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Carlos Rosales-Silva
Untitled, 2009
Gold helium-filled balloons
Courtesy the artist

Issue #115
The Art of Entitlement
February 6, 2009

From the Editor
Claire Ruud

Yesterday, Leah Ollman (of Art in America and the LA Times) and Phong Bui (of The Brooklyn Rail and P.S.1) offered a few gems of wisdom about art criticism to those who attended the first in a series of three Viewpoint… more...

INTERVIEW

Teresita Fernández
by Claire Ruud
Artist Teresita Fernández recently revolutionized The Blanton Museum's atrium with her semi-permanent… more...

Matt Stokes
by Kate Watson
We’ve heard a lot about Austin punk in the last year, with projects exploring the topic at such varied locations as Gallery Lombardi, Fluent~Collaborative’s very own testsite… more...

REVIEWS

Enrico David
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Through May 3
by Quinn Latimer
“I can only trade one opacity of experience with another,” Enrico David has written of his work with a kind of sly finality. Yet the… more...

Warhol and the Shared Subject
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts
Closed February 1
by Alison Hearst
It’s true; we’ve seen a lot of Warhol lately. Trying to count the recent Warhol-centric exhibitions is a bit like counting sheep. The… more...

Imaginary Spaces
Menil Collection, Houston
Through March 1
by Alvaro Ibarra
Imaginary Spaces, currently at The Menil in Houston, consists of seventeen artworks selected from the museum’s permanent collection… more...

TO THE EDITOR

Jason Jay Stevens
Katie Geha's review of the ArtPace 08.3 exhibition was refreshing for its direct critique. Well-written and brave. I appreciate her nod to the by-definition potential for failure wherever experimentation… more...

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…might be good, a project of Fluent~Collaborative, is a contemporary art e-publication based in Austin that reaches over 5,000 international subscribers. Understanding Austin as one hub within a larger network of art communities, …might be good provides a platform for thoughtful dialogue about artistic production and reception. Every two weeks, the publication offers a few reviews, interviews and features in response to noteworthy happenings within our immediate surroundings in Austin, our regional setting within Texas and the context of art communities worldwide.

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