Michael Bise

In his 1960 essay, Modernist Painting, Clement Greenberg writes, “With Manet and the Impressionists the question ceased to be defined as one of color versus drawing… and became instead a…

Cast against the modern, urbane anarchism of Duchamp, Bacon is a wild-eyed wilderness prophet.

Horn’s works argue an essential point: the pursuit of truth through knowledge is a quixotic endeavor.

The class warfare rhetoric among activist art types is hard to take seriously because it’s so often hypocritical.

There are precious few artists who attempt to create the kind of ambitious mythological gospel that Hancock has been writing for the last twenty years.

When Houston really begins to believe in its own artists and puts more of its money where its heart is, Gulf Coast art might just light up like flaming oil on the surface of dirty water.

Look, if you don’t get it, Bell basically tells us, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid. It just means you have no aesthetic sensibility.

A lot of artists use building materials to make art, but Terry does a nice job of driving home the fact that he’s turning useful things into message-free useless things.

The subtle beauty of change and tradition in the work of these artists has something to teach us about the difference between leaving home and running away.

What happens when, as a critic or artist, you believe the culture and the tradition from which a practice emerges is criminal, or even evil?

The devaluation of individuality, competition and markets is totalitarianism.

I was glad to be reminded that for many artists, art is still about something other than money or politics.

People who don’t know anything about painting should sit down, shut up, and listen to the the artists and critics who have given their lives to understanding painting.

Navigating a historical exhibition like 'Adiós Utopia' can be difficult. The MFAH does a nice job of providing a broad outline, but it's best to find a personal position from which to steer your experience.

If painting's “very definition is in crisis,” I wanted to get to the bottom of it.

These sculptures act like still frames in a larger story that stars, finally, all of the people milling about them in the museum.

It really is an indictment of our culture that this seems perfectly natural and incredibly entertaining. And it is entertaining.

There are better and worse ways to stage a revolution. Somehow this all feels so… familiar.

In this historical moment in which democratic institutions around the world are are under attack, programs like the Teen Council and its exhibition feel necessary and urgent.

In Terry Allen’s world, late-night Lone Star-fueled joyrides down North Texas farm roads and small-time criminal escapades take on the power and significance of every great voyage, every triumph, and every retreat and defeat in the history of American civilization.