Taylor Bradley
Taylor Bradley is an art historian based in Houston. Bradley specializes in modern and contemporary art with a focus on the history of photography and conceptual art. She received her BA in Art History with distinction from Boston University (2008) and earned her MA (2012) and PhD (2019) from The University of Texas at Austin.
Hugh Hayden skewers the American Dream
For “Boogey Men,” Dallas-born Hugh Hayden stages a suite of seven works from 2021 at the Blaffer Art Museum. Hayden, a student of gardens and architecture, presents three interconnected...
‘Because everyone else was getting it wrong.’ At the Menil, Meret Oppenheim’s ‘My Exhibition’
God, I love a good retrospective.
The exhibition “"Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition,” on view at the Menil Collection through September 5, hosts work from the 1930s through the 1980s which...
Cauleen Smith finds that ‘We Already Have What We Need’ to create a cosmology of generosity
Cauleen! How I love you so.
At the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, the quilted Mylar flag, Cauleen Smith's “Emerge and See” (2019) flies high above a layered soundscape of brass,...
Judy, Judy, Judy: With ‘Valley,’ Suzanne Bocanegra flips the script on exploitation
In Suzanne Bocanegra’s eight-channel video “Valley” at the Blanton Museum, eight actors reenact Judy Garland’s 1966 wardrobe test for the film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann’s best-selling novel, “Valley of...
Review: ‘Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning’ at the Blaffer Art Museum
“The End of My Beginning” marks Houston-born Jamal Cyrus’s first mid-career survey at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston. With 50 plus works made in the...
Three in Houston: Nicole Awai, Robert Ruello, and Jamey Hart
Since the world shuttered, I’ve had the luxury of working from home alone but leaving the house recently and merging onto Hwy. 71 felt exhilarating. With stars in my...