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.
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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. -
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. -
Bosom Buddies
The Richard Phillips show at the Dallas Contemporary makes total sense, and therein lies the problem.
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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.
Painting on My Planet
Not a single name on Alvarez's list of the "Top Ten Painters in Houston" in this week's Houston Press matched a single name on mine, anywhere.
Lo-Fi, No-Fi, or überposh? Three Austin Exhibitions.
If the materiality of paint and substrate is your thing, three current Austin exhibitions give you an opportunity to dial in your desired level of production value.
Bosom Buddies
The Richard Phillips show at the Dallas Contemporary makes total sense, and therein lies the problem.
Kindred Spirit
Visionary art drawn from the deep reservoir of amazing objects quietly enlivening Houston's homes and studios. Go see it.
Glasshouses 33: Jules Buck Jones
Jules' Airstream in East Austin may not be a mystic cave of the ancients, but with his tropical shirt glowing, he really embodies a little bit of what keeps Austin weird.
Sergio Garcia: It’s Like the Beginning of That One Song
Garcia finds a middle ground that merges childish diversions with technical fluency.
Amy Myers: Atomic Cosmologies
Myers' complicated structures have an aura of mathematic roots, if for no other reason than their resemblance to Spirograph drawings.
