Since 1992, I’ve lived around the corner from a convenience establishment called Al Quick-Stop. It’s owned by Zak El Saadi, a rather handsome Lebanese man [...]

Like so many I know, whenever I find myself in a foreign land, another state, or even another neighborhood, I get that Golly, wouldn’t it [...]

The shaped canvas in contemporary painting has always irritated me. Simply because, for the most part, it seems to cry, “look! I’m making painting interesting [...]

I am a lazy person. Iget lazier. But I decided, a while back, that I would bravely go where manyhave gone before (Dallas) to see [...]

You don’t view a Marlene Dumas painting; you are confronted by it. Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave, her first North American mid-career survey (organized [...]

    Photography’s treated pretty indifferently in the gallery scene around here. With a few exceptions (Amy Blakemore and Dana Harper are the only ones with [...]

Okay, for those of you poor, pathetic types who just aren’t in step, I’m With Stupid is presently the avatar for the nearly universally beloved [...]

House of Mind, Pat Graney‘s work in multiple media (installation, sculpture, video and choreographed performances), is probably the most ambitious project ever taken on at [...]

The San Antonio art scene has always intrigued me. As a longtime denizen of Houston, I realize that Houston has a lot to offer in [...]

    When you first walk through Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within, curated by Sarah L. Eckhardt and currently on view at the Menil Collection, it [...]

In his poem Neo-HooDoo Manifesto, published in 1969, poet, novelist and essayist Ishmael Reed described Neo-HooDoo as “a ‘Lost American Church’ updated.” It can be [...]

Honestly? My first thought when I saw Mark Fox Mark Fox installing Dust as this year’s Summer Window Series at the Rice University Art Gallery? [...]

A few years back a heavy package arrived at my door, addressed to my then-husband. Inside was a bronze statue of a realistically rendered cowboy [...]

Judging by how often you hear museum guards order visitors to “step away from the art,” it’s easy to see how art can be irresistible. [...]