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The Alamo
America is over, and the last stand of our compromised, imperial American identity is being staged here at the bottom of the nation. -
Top 5 Events in TX: Week of July 23, 2014
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How Tight is Texas for Artists?
Why would anyone who is truly creative stay in this state if they could live elsewhere? -
In Defense of Online Comments
Just because you passionately believe the Earth to be 6,000 years old doesn’t make your idea legitimate.
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Twofer Thursday: Art Everywhere and I Mean Everywhere
That’s the era we live in: No blank walls no matter how desperate or cheap we may be. Are blank walls that bad?
Top 5 Events in TX: Week of July 30, 2014
Our new video counts down the Top 5!
Chuck Webster: Woven With A Silent Motto at Marfa Contemporary
The works do not demonstrate compelling draftsmanship – not every scribble can be sweet-talked into a masterpiece.
The Alamo
America is over, and the last stand of our compromised, imperial American identity is being staged here at the bottom of the nation.
BLACK DROP: Astral Observations In Spring, TX
The transit of Venus across the Sun, the history of recorded image, and the intersection of three Texas art institutions.
A Little Absurdity For Breakfast
On the surface it seems elementary, but I can’t think of a more sophisticated sensibility than true comic absurdity.
Kid Critics Speak: Soto’s Houston Penetrable
When I went to visit Soto: The Houston Penetrable at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, I took six kids along to counterbalance my jaded adult art-critic cynicism.
Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin & Bones at CAMH
Skin and Bones is an opportunity to see a complete goofball and romantic fall brutally in love with something as fickle as drawing, over and over and over again.
How Tight is Texas for Artists?
Why would anyone who is truly creative stay in this state if they could live elsewhere?
Everything and a Dead Duck
The annual Big Show at Houston's Lawndale Art Center isn't the free-for-all it was when it was literally free for all (and curated by Walter Hopps), but I always look forward to it because I'm a hoper.
“Never Enough” at the Dallas Museum of Art
The DMA has been working to fold conceptual works into the collection that highlight the elasticity of contemporary photography.
In Defense of Online Comments
Just because you passionately believe the Earth to be 6,000 years old doesn’t make your idea legitimate.
The Strangest Fruit: Vincent Valdez at David Shelton
Even though the work isn’t enacting what Valdez intended, it’s still provocative. Shifting from political to personal, The Strangest Fruit tackles questions of masculinity.
Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose
Why we could use more Texas in our storytelling
The Top Ten Painters in Houston
That Houston's painterly pride rests on the shoulders of a basketball team of artists is cause for both fear and celebration.
How to Look at Style and Substance: The Paintings of Otis Jones and Bret Slater
High modernist art theoretical demagoguery turned on its head, nicely set out in paint, canvas, and wood.
