Objects in the Mirror

LONDON, England — Super-ultra-mega-collector-and-a-half Charles Ponzi has launched a porn site for art students to display not only their tentative and unresolved juvenile work, but [...]

Context determines meaning. I smell bacon means one thing when I exclaim it in the kitchen of granny's cottage as she cooks breakfast. It means [...]

The best moments of the Miami Art Fair come late at night, when everyone goes down to the moonlit beaches. Collectors and dealers, even artists, [...]

My first trip to Manhattan was at the tail end of the nineteen-eighties. A blizzard menaced me and mocked my Academy Surplus winter-gear as I [...]

The first time I answered a booty “Call for Artists,” I had to “submit” to some art organization's intensely sexual desire to “review my materials.” [...]

The Center for Useless Mediocrity occupies the space where a museum of contemporary art might have gone. Loads of people wander around inside its galleries, [...]

Viewing the bad art created by someone you love, by a close friend or family member, is probably the most devastating trauma you will ever [...]

My father tactfully hinted that my art career might not pay my bills, at least not right away. He suggested that meanwhile, just to be [...]

My art is about the joy of arranging colors and patterns in a way that pleases me, and maybe pleases others as well. My art [...]

When I began writing this column for Glasstire, seeking only to amuse, entertain and get paid, it never crossed my mind that I would end [...]

Last night, I had fun vandalizing the Museum of Certified Art's mission statement. I could"ve made do with Houston's version of this kind of institutional [...]

I like those sites where you can check out stories your friends tell you and find out if they're just urban legends. I think I'm [...]

I am required by the conditions of my probation to acknowledge that I found the xeroxed artwork reproduced below, complete with its handmade label, at [...]

I wanted to make art that didn't have a style. I thought style was where all the stupid problems crept in, and that I could [...]

I'm tempted to write art criticism in this column, but I'm afraid of the repercussions. If you tell people what you think of their lame [...]

You know you're living in a dicey neighborhood when you're standing on your own front lawn and a stranger pulls over and gives you a [...]

I'm so mega-successful I don't even blow the foam off my own beer. Servants, assistants, entourage — call them what you want but once they [...]

It used to be that every time I heard "vibrant community," I thought of vibrators. I like to read the literature that art organizations publish [...]

Some time ago I went to the Clear Lake Art Fair. For those who don't know, art fairs are the way of the art world [...]

Gunter Von Hagen invented the technique of plastination — turning body tissue into something stable and not smelly which can be used to make anatomical [...]