A lot of people are talking about Holland Cotter’s recent article in the Times, about a return to real art values indicated by the current [...]

I already burned most of my bridges in Dallas, demonstrating absolutely zero aptitude for political correctness on this blog, so let me not pretend now [...]

Denver was a great town to grow up in (or near), but I intuited early on (by, like, age 5) that the place was long [...]

I recently made passing comment on the pitfalls of art/mental jadedness. But jade is actually gorgeous. They used to wrap Chinese emperor corpses in it [...]

A week in Dallas was just enough to leave with the bloom still on the rose of my affection. We headed in one long day’s [...]

I recently got back to Chicago from three weeks on the road. The semi-annual Christmas trip home to Denver, by way of Dallas for other [...]

Franklin Jones, aka Adi Da, died on Thanksgiving at his compound in Fiji, age 69. I had written about his adventures in art a few [...]

Franklin Jones, aka Adi Da, died on Thanksgiving. I had written about his adventures in art a few months back. He apparently keeled over from [...]

I just saw two shows at one museum that were nearly perfect foils for one another, each helping inform and reveal the strengths and weaknesses [...]

Hey everyone. Long time no blah. I simply have just had nothing to report. Sure, I’ve seen some shows n shit, and I’ve liked some [...]

During the day, when my fingers can’t take zip-tying steel cable anymore (the latest sculptural (mis?)adventure), I’ve been reading Gaston Bachelard. At night, after zazen, [...]

Dallas-ites and friends David and Amanda Hanson were up in Chicago this weekend. David used to work for Disney, and later Paul McCarthy. Now he [...]

I’ve been reading an early text by Victor Burgin , the conceptual artist, theorist, writer, and one time Turner Prize short-lister (’86). The work from [...]

The discussions around this whole Hirst auction thing already seem passé, even before the auction has happened, as if it was all years ago and [...]

The discussions around this whole Hirst auction thing already seem passé, even before the auction has happened, as if it was all years ago and [...]

How utterly unfashionable these sentiments are! Take em or leave em. Apologies in advance to Sean Carroll.   “Art is a privilege, a blessing, a [...]

How utterly unfashionable these sentiments are! Take em or leave em. Apologies in advance to Sean Carroll.   “Art is a privilege, a blessing, a [...]

So one of the most interesting things to me reading this "End of Art" discussion of Duchamp was simply seeing that famous picture of him [...]

So one of the most interesting things to me reading this "End of Art" discussion of Duchamp was simply seeing that famous picture of him [...]

Well, one month down in Chi Town. I think I’m finally starting to settle in. I’m teaching too many classes, but that’s got the ol’ [...]