Art Reviews: 'Dirty Dozen' at Blue Star Contemporary Museum, 'Hieroglyphs' at Linda Pace Foundation

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By Scott Andrews

TEXAS---Every day we make choices that are so habitual we barely notice them. Up and quitting may cross your mind as a fantasy, but choosing ways to make the day amusing is rarely encouraged in the American workplace, nor sufficiently practiced — an unfortunate habit we've inherited from our Puritan forebears.  Two shows now on view exhibit these choices especially well. "Dirty Dozen," at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, curated by Catherine Anspon, fine arts and social editor at Papercity magazine, presents seven San Antonio artists and five artists from Houston. The show, says Anspon, "exhibits themes of the supernatural, architecture, pop-culture … and cloning" but what one immediately notices is that the assembled pieces work together and fit the room. [link]