2012 saw a slew of portraits of the late Governor Ann Richards in various media—film, print, on the stage. A lot of youngsters might have [...]

Constructivism in Latin America provided fertile ground for a plethora of different movements, proposals and ideas from the 1930s onward as seen in Constructed Dialogues: [...]

Recent conversations on contemporary art are littered with language on the archive-as-artwork, mostly inspired by Derrida’s 1988 publication, Archive Fever.  Exhibitions continue to spring up [...]

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William Pope.L, Foraging (asphixia version), 2008, Digital C-Print   It was 2003 and “William Pope.L’s: eRacism was on view at Houston’s DiverseWorks as part of [...]

Every so often we experience an artwork that reminds us of what art can be. A total artwork—- one which transforms or activates the space [...]

Some say that Black History month no longer needs to be celebrated. The belief is that these marginalized histories can be framed beyond the margins [...]

Randomly opening Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, takes me to a page with an image of an asymmetrical quilt overflowing with indigo, magenta [...]

R.I.P. Cy Twombly (1928-2011) Born in Lexington, Virginia in 1928, Twombly actively distanced himself from the major movements of 20th-century art, both stylistically and geographically. [...]

For the next couple of months I will be in New York and will post of a few blog posts called “Houston in New York”. [...]

Juneteenth could possibly be seen as the most significant event in American history after independence itself—the eradication of American slavery. On June 19, 1865, more [...]

Probably one of the most stirring moments in the art world in the past year was the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s video, “A Fire in [...]

Lygia Clark’s “Bicho (Máquina)” is one of many artworks listed on the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s online feature, “100 Highlights of the MFAH”. Framed [...]

To address the conditions of curating contemporary art, one must address the temporality it inhabits. This was one of many currents in a recent lecture [...]

The role of sound, music, and noises in the visual arts world is a bit of a mystery to me and maybe for others. This [...]

Houston has often been fertile ground for some off-the-grid artist projects. This year we’ve seen a slew of artists using Houston as their playground to [...]

Pulsating sounds, single and multi-channel videos, moving lights, dance and live music were all part of the one-night-only May 1 event, Projected.2010: New Visions of [...]

How do you manage between being an artist, mother, and teacher? How do you maintain an balanced perspective? With absolute conviction I believe and practice [...]