New York Now: The Ten Second Tour
I spent the week of May 1-7 in New York to see galleries/museums and attend a curator conference. As an obsessive photo taker, I thought [...]
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Chatting with Sally Glass of Dallas’ semigloss. Magazine
A few months back I took a weekend trip to Dallas, and was impressed by the young, vibrant art scene emerging there. Grassroots arts ventures [...]
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People in Your Neighborhood: Karen Weiner
Let me introduce to you Karen Weiner, Director, founder and driving force behind The Reading Room at 3715 Parry Ave. in Dallas. Swing the Book [...]
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Gary Sweeney: How To Disarm Just About Anyone
1. What’s your favorite merit badge? My favorite merit badge was the “Fingerprinting” badge, which I’m sure they don’t even have anymore. My father was [...]
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Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible
Forrest Bess (1911-1977) lived a hermit’s life in a cabin in Chinquapin, Texas. In the catalog for the exhibit Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible, Robert Gober writes, [...]
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Where the Border of Water Meets Air, Dragonflies Gather
This fall, in Dundee, Scotland, printmaking professionals from around the world will gather for the 8th annual Impact International Printmaking Conference. With the theme of [...]
Chatting with Sally Glass of Dallas’ semigloss. Magazine
A few months back I took a weekend trip to Dallas, and was impressed by the young, vibrant art scene emerging there. Grassroots arts ventures [...]
Gregory Ruppe and Timothy Harding: The Landscape is Motorized at 500X
I’m late on this—the show I am about to review closed last weekend. It has likely been packed up and moved, making space for the [...]
CineMarfa 2013 (Part 1: The Festival)
Last week, I hit the long road west from Houston to Marfa to see some films. I didn’t know much about the CineMarfa festival to [...]
People in Your Neighborhood: Karen Weiner
Let me introduce to you Karen Weiner, Director, founder and driving force behind The Reading Room at 3715 Parry Ave. in Dallas. Swing the Book [...]
Floor Staff and the Guest Experience @ the Dallas Museum of Art
If you’re anything like me, you probably keep a mental notebook of museums that seem to do consistently interesting work; it’s pages filled with the [...]
The Image Extends Past the Edge of the Plane: an Interview with J. Parker Valentine
J. Parker Valentine is an artist who lives in Austin, TX and New York City. Her recent show at Artpace San Antonio extends her drawing [...]
Glasshouses 27: Patrick Turk and Claire Webb
Say you were living in medieval Europe, drinking mead and passing out on a stone table, when a hologram of Carl Sagan beams in and [...]
Tattooed Squeegee Boys
A lot of prints I see these days are quite genteel and pleasant. Printmaking has evolved into a rather polite art form. But this wasn’t [...]
River of Gruel, Pile of Pigs: Notes from Fusebox
The composer John Cage once said, “I really think it’s important to be in a situation, both in art and life, where you don’t understand [...]
Biggs and Collings: Suspicious Utopias, An Interview
British artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are known as much for their beautiful tessellated abstract paintings as their staunch defense of them. Their current [...]
Gary Sweeney: How To Disarm Just About Anyone
1. What’s your favorite merit badge? My favorite merit badge was the “Fingerprinting” badge, which I’m sure they don’t even have anymore. My father was [...]
