I was falling asleep slowly around 1:30 am when I heard the chime of a Facebook chat message.  I debated about just ignoring it, [...]

Part II of my fantastic chat with artist Christina Sukhgian Houle who is in Mexico City for six weeks as part of the SOMA summer [...]

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting with artist Christina Sukhgian Houle who is in Mexico City for six weeks as part [...]

First, because of a three day texting exchange with Ben Aqua.  These reminded me of…     …this:   Then I received an email from Armando [...]

I always find it curious when art institutions decide to go into ambitious building programs.  Typically the reasoning is the same: to offer a space [...]

  It’s really difficult to talk about foreignness.  I really discovered this in 2006 when I returned to live in Austin after living in Mexico [...]

I talk about Mexic-Arte Museum a lot and I always have.  I have a long history with the institution, and I will say again that [...]

  Typically it’s fun to sit back and watch as the art world in Austin continues to grow, gain strength, respect, and generally produce quality art [...]

The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind in Mexico City.  The annual art fair, in its eighth year, Zona MACO took place last [...]

I had the incredible pleasure of visiting the studio of artist Pablo Vargas-Lugo a little more than one week ago.  Pablo’s studio is temporarily nestled [...]

Throughout a weekend of constant seismic activity and back-to-back aftershocks I braved the constantly trembling ground on Friday and made the short trek further into [...]

It’s not uncommon to walk the streets and stumble upon a vendor selling their wares laid out on top of a blanket directly on the [...]

There are few times where I am genuinely homesick, and even fewer times that I miss my birth country.  That said, the hardest part of [...]

The future is an incredibly difficult thing to talk about.  How is it possible to sustain a relevant conversation about something as hypothetical and non-existent [...]

I had an art trek.  There were three openings and I was determined to make it to all of them.  I succeeded (mostly). Opening #1 [...]

There are few times that I complain about living in Mexico.  There are even fewer things that bother me about living here.  Generally, I love [...]

I had the incredible privilege of visiting the community of Tlatelolco last week.  Tlatelolco is one of the places in the city that has long [...]

This year is an election year in Mexico.  This election will be a pivotal one for the entire country.  I was living in Mexico City [...]

I couldn’t help but take a photo of this very lonely seat on the subway in Chicago just a couple of weeks ago… Imagine my [...]

  Thanks, MCA.  I needed that.