Lubbock I rolled into town around dinner time. Texas Tech’s Joe Arredondo met me at Café J, which he deemed "the only decent restaurant in [...]

After recently noticing a listing on Glasstire for the exhibition Samuel Colt: Arms, Art, and Invention at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, I half-jokingly [...]

Franklin Jones (b. 1939), alias Bubba Free John, alias Da Free John, alias Dau Loloma, Da Love-Ananda, Da Avadhoota, Da Kalki, Da Avabhasa, and for [...]

One of my favorite area artists, Fort Worth’s Sarah Green, has discovered some unlikely muses in the whole Jackass posse, befriending and creating portraits of [...]

While the finishing touches were still being applied, I took an early walk-through of Kara Walker’s retrospective “My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love” [...]

I watched one of those Art City videos this weekend, the one titled "Simplicity" (2002). There are great interviews with Richard Tuttle, John Baldessari, Robert [...]

20 years ago, as a student, I used to type (on a typewriter!) notable quotes on 3” x 5” cards and tack them up around [...]

Let’s keep this short and sweet: I think Ludwig Schwarz is best artist in Dallas. Probably in Texas. At least of his generation. He wuz [...]

A few months ago, I came across this quote in Rolling Stone, from an interview with Dr Drew Pinsky : “I believe something has shifted. [...]

A lifetime: what does it amount to? The body moves here, the body moves there, it encounters other bodies, perhaps even producing a couple more. [...]

Have at it… "The first thing you have to do is seperate art from all the myths that are wrapped around it. The most powerful [...]

I caught the tail end of the second annual CADD art fair last Sunday. It looked sharp. Unsurprisingly, out-of-towners I spoke with left convinced that [...]

I just returned from another fact-finding, job/home-hunting mission to Chicago (happy to report SAIC took pity and gave me a teaching job.) I like Chicago, [...]

  Fellow art ruminants: take a chaw on this. Agree, disagree? Examples? Let us all in on it… "…I feel the job of the artist [...]

Arriving at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, I walked in behind a couple hundred hootin’ and hollerin’ high school students, let loose on [...]

The Chelsea district ground-breaker appears to be the first A-lister to fold. I’ve always appreciated their looking beyond Williamsburg for talent. Sticking to your aesthetic [...]

I was surfing this morning. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m getting the idea that I may be the most ambivalent paid (kind of) art [...]

I went to Chicago the other week, mainly because of an anticipated move there later this summer (which is looking increasingly likely. Some in Dallas [...]

That’s not the title for Paul H-O’s new documentary, but it could be. Here’s an entertaining interview with him on Salon.    At the bottom [...]

  I wanted to follow up on the heels of my KC visit with my impressions of the new addition to the Nelson Atkins Museum [...]