Scott Martin: LUNAR
The photos are simultaneously stark and ecstatic, and the printing process gives them an embossed tactility.
Mat Kubo: ShadowsWhispersTransfersPulls at Sala Diaz
Kubo’s process articulates the idea that the objects of our environments have an ambient energy.
In the C Cities
I wonder if all the cities the people of my generation have dreamed of leaving could become some of the only places in the encroaching neoliberal thunderglobe where one could have the leisure to dream.
Micky Hoogendijk at Women & Their Work
It is interesting when artists find some thread in a work of pop culture and yank it out and sew it into the center point of their own mandelas
The Cult Scale
Over the last 15 years, I've been constructing a “cult scale” — a ranking system to define the fanaticisms of the world. I present it for your enjoyment and handy use.
A Day in the Mahatma Gandhi District: A Proposal for a Future of “Sprawlsteading”
Houston personifies both the grim reality of sprawl retail and its possible salvation. There is no reason suburbs and sprawl have to suck.
‘Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians’ at the MFAH
This is a deeply emotional and visual show, with some pieces that stop one in awe.
‘Interval’ at Ruiz-Healy Art
"...be on the watch for the interval, the place where you are given a choice and a chance to add goodness to the world.”
Three Walls at Sala Diaz: ‘Under the Gun’
How to make art in this operatic ambience and grim reality of actual deportations, bombings, and general governmental reactionary cruelty?
Anthony Rundblade at Hello Studio
I did feel a pang of longing looking at this show despite the latticed dread it conjured.
A Trip to the Stark Museum in Orange, Texas
The sleepy bayou town of Orange is home to perhaps the best Western Art Museum in the country, and the reason I traveled there with my dad to see its current dazzling show.
Neil’s Top Picks at the McNay
One of the best things a super-rich person can do is turn their mansion into a museum when they die.
How to Erase the Flood
Our second Civil War would be fought over the removal of monuments to the first Civil War.
John Paul Rosenberg at Co-Lab Projects, Austin
There is an alchemic energy in the pieces, the collage of disparate materials fuse into mysterious and enticing portals. The white walls of the gallery space become infinite.
Pradeep Dalal at Sala Diaz, San Antonio
This is not a straight polemic, but rather something more removed and elusive.
Maria Chavez at Co-Lab Projects, Austin
The show has a torque to it, an energy, like a suspension bridge.
Sol Lewitt at Rice Gallery
It is fitting that the modest yet noble Rice Gallery should conclude its run with a show that really demonstrates how much you can do with a single room.
Artpace Spring Artist-in-Residence Exhibition
The show, featuring a Texas, an American, and a New Zealand artist is strikingly resonant and cohesive, and steeped in community and demarcation.
Neil’s Marfa Myths Dispatch, Part 2
I realized that for a few days I hadn’t really read the news, hadn’t really felt afraid, hadn’t really felt enraged.
