Gnome Statue Stolen from Florida Museum
This story was too good to pass up: recently, a resin statue of a gnome was stolen from Florida’s Cornell Art Museum. “Please bring the Gnome home....Read More
King Tut’s Extraterrestrial Dagger
Recently, researchers have concluded that the blade of a dagger found buried with King Tut was made using iron from a meteorite: Using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, Italian...Read More
Memorial Day: An Ode to Jasper Johns’ Flag
This Memorial Day, spend a few minutes reading about Jasper Johns’ monumental work Flag (1955): Perhaps most obviously, Flag serves to question what a painting is,...Read More
Wear Art History on Your Jacket
Enamel pins are the “hot new thing.” This past week, there was even a pin art show in NYC. They are cheap to buy, cheaper...Read More
Peter Saul on Gimmicks in Art
Earlier today I was watching a documentary about a now defunct Texas art collective Rubber: An Art Mob. In the video, the painter Peter Saul said the following...Read More
See-through Wood is Now a Thing
Two weeks ago, The New York Times reported that researchers from the University of Maryland have found a way to make wood transparent. From the article:...Read More
Video: A Song & Dance about Calcium
Last night, at the historic Houston nightclub Numbers, Aurora Picture Show hosted their yearly screening with the A/V Geeks. The A/V Geeks travel across the US...Read More
This Week’s New Yorker Cover
This week’s New Yorker cover is all too real. For the past month, my Facebook feed has been bombarded with photos of cheery-faced, cap and gown-clad recent...Read More
Video: Seth Alverson at Bill’s Junk
Seth Alverson’s going away party/show was last Friday at Bill’s Junk/Optical Project in Houston. The event consisted of this video showing a spinning figurine that periodically...Read More
Escaping the Narrative Trap of Video Art: David Politzer and Bradly Brown
If an artist is making a time-based work, it might behoove them to work smart rather than work hard.
How to Build a Better Festival
I recently attended Fusebox Festival in Austin and CounterCurrent in Houston. Here are five ways for festival organizers to make their festivals even better for performers and audiences.
The Buffalo Bayou Partnership Wants to Take You Underground
Houston’s Buffalo Bayou has been undergoing a major renovation for the past few years. Along with new and improved walking trails, community gathering spaces, and a nature park,...Read More
What Shall We Do Next? at DiverseWorks
Once the visitor has fallen into the trap of the clever exhibition itself, they realize the show sells exactly what it criticizes: the impact of advertising and technology on our physical bodies and our perceptions of spaces.
Highlights from Austin: February 2016
Brandon Zech shares some thoughts on the work he saw on his most recent trip.
Melissa Brown at Big Medium
Brown uses prints as a tool to plan out ideas for her other works. You’d think this doesn’t make sense: reduction printing is not a time-efficient process for sketching.
The Best Show I Saw In 2015
The premise of the video is the artist's search for a bondage fetish photograph that was taken of her in Tokyo in 1987.
Video: SOFT4SOFT
Glasstire captured some scenes at the opening of an exhibition at Beefhaus in Dallas
Giant Yarn Balls and Turkey Calls: Houston’s Thanksgiving Parade
Yesterday was my first time at Houston’s annual Thanksgiving Day parade. I really went to see the artist-made floats, but the whole parade sucked me in. Here’s...Read More
