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 [...]

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 [...]

The art collective Temporary Services’ exhibition at The University Galleries at Texas State in San Marcos acts a tutorial for the social art practice the [...]

Surface Tension, the current show at MASS Gallery, is a quiet and considered study of the work of three artists. The photography and paper works [...]

Morgan Rush Jones grew up in Ohio, moved to New York to study photography and then arrived in Austin two years ago to make work [...]

Carl Hammoud’s current exhibition of paintings and drawings at Lora Reynolds Gallery feels cool and empty. The works are also nearly impeccably installed. I recently [...]

Last week’s episode of “GIRLS” showed Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah Horvath, engaging in a topless round of ping pong with Joshua, a recently separated 42-year-old [...]

Last Saturday night I went to a private residence in Travis Heights to see the New Music Co-op‘s performance of Brent Fariss‘ Unitard, a piece [...]

Lauren Kelley creates animated videos that often feature Barbies altered by clay and confectioner’s sugar and that evoke a complex commentary on race, youth and [...]

Oh how we long for the End! Is there not something slightly disappointing about waking up to an unchanged world after everything was supposed to [...]

Who doesn’t love to receive art books around the holidays? Full of inspiration and far more special than your average paperback, the following books will [...]

If not completely exhausting, the end of each semester can be pretty gratifying. The students are relieved to be finished, turning in their last papers [...]

By the time this is published the new curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum may have been announced. I was told [...]

I’ve long thought of clay as a very specific medium. By “medium specific” I’m recalling the critic Clement Greenberg’s term as he defined it in [...]

I ran around E.A.S.T. Sunday afternoon, the last day of the annual Austin arts festival. It was a sunny and beautiful day–perfect for wandering about [...]

Emily Roysdon is an artist who lives in Stockholm and New York, when she’s not traveling around the globe, mounting collaborative and site-specific projects. Roysdon [...]

Colby Bird  is an artist born and raised in Austin, now living in Brooklyn, New York. He often blends the discourses of photography and sculpture, [...]

I ended my weekend by going to see the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie The Master. The film is broadly about a Scientology-like group in [...]

  1. New York in the fall is ridiculously seductive. I visited this past weekend and the weather was perfect–blue skies, cool breezes. I walked all [...]

There’s been a lot of writing on John Cage in the last week in preparation for today, what would have been his 100th birthday. You [...]