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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“Silence” at the Menil Collection
The Program Will Begin Shortly… Silence is Toby Kamps’ first major exhibition at The Menil Collection since becoming curator of modern and contemporary art two [...]
Something This Way Comes: Randy Wallace’s “Postdimensionalman”
I’m a lucky guy. I’ve already outlived Doc Holliday by twenty-four years and just the other day I came upon a new Randy Wallace piece, [...]
Flying Around In The Rain (for Chuck Ramirez)
Just days after Chuck Ramirez’s death in early November 2010, Glasstire approached me to write a remembrance of him. My first impulse was that this [...]
“Matthew Ronay: Between The Worlds” at Artpace
For The Trees Matthew Ronay’s Between The Worlds, at the Hudson (Show)Room, Artpace, appears alternately rooted and nomadic. Yurt, grotto, hall of mirrors, night wood, [...]
One Kind Favor 6 (Maybe this’ll be the day)
Next morning in Marfa I mail a sixth postcard to Jens Hoffmann. A funny ratio you might say to the two postcards he kept, especially [...]
One Kind Favor 5 (Chuck is my co-pilot)
I can sense the Hermes assist as I cross into New Mexico. Out here they call him Coyote. He’s a kind of fellow traveler for [...]
One Kind Favor 4 (Go West young weed)
Thursday morning Jeff and I head into Lubbock in separate cars. He’ll go east to Dallas for a Texas Artists Today book signing and I’ll [...]
One Kind Favor 3 (Pennies)
Fell asleep last night thinking how I had the Lone Ranger flashlight with me and didn’t think to use it. As if it were a [...]
One Kind Favor 2 (Desdemona Hatbox Strawn)
The lucky key continued to influence my time yesterday as I wound down from writing. I turned on the TV about one am and found [...]
One Kind Favor 1 (East of Eden)
This is day one of One Kind Favor, a trip I’m taking around the state and into New Mexico, reversing the route taken by Jens [...]
A Well Performed Place
…what living in the country means: It’s sitting in a little bitty restaurant, looking out the window at a cow, but you only have powdered [...]
Beyond post To Kellogg’s
The following text served as the script for a performance, Beyond post To Kellogg’s, given at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, October 12, [...]
A Brief History of Time
Two seconds. The average length of time a spectator spends looking at a painting. A statistic that has received more than its share of reiteration, [...]
