Art Fairs are the funnest no-fun events in the artworld. Take Dallas, for example: the first thing I saw was this swing, installed on the [...]
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Wrangle: John T. Biggers at TSU
Credit Sequence -Gray day, I’m on 59, heading down to TSU. At freeway speed, the weather renders most of the adjacent buildings invisible, only the [...]
Dreaming About Cindy
A few nights before I saw the Cindy Sherman retrospective at the Dallas Museum of Art, I dreamed about Cindy. Picture a big warehouse building [...]
Twenty Questions: David McGee’s First Encounter with Art
Houston artist David McGee recalls an encounter with a Picasso impersonator on TV for videographer John Carrithers.
Temporary Services “Socialized Media–Designated Drivers, Interactive Records and a Booklet Cloud”
The art collective Temporary Services’ exhibition at The University Galleries at Texas State in San Marcos acts a tutorial for the social art practice the [...]
35th Annual Master’s Thesis Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum
Newly renovated Blaffer exterior About three years ago I installed my Master’s Thesis Show at the Blaffer Art Museum. Every piece in my exhibit [...]
Paintings, Peacocks, & Prosecco with Franco Mondini-Ruiz
You can’t miss the compound on San Antonio’s West Side as it sits in the middle of Leal Street. Warhol-inspired Campbell’s soup piñatas mixed in [...]
VizLab at UTSA
On a late Friday afternoon in March as rush-hour drivers braked their way through the I-10 and Loop 1604 intersection, San Antonio artists got their [...]
Clay Conversation
Three exhibitions currently on view in DFW highlight work in clay by three artists spanning four centuries. C.D. Dickerson is Curator of European Art at [...]
Chain Chain Chain
Katie Wynne‘s A chain of non-events at Lawndale is an installation of various bits of crap semi-connected to one another. I don’t say “crap” in a pejorative way. I [...]
Daytime Televison at Gallery HOMELAND!
I thought the handwritten price list was a humorous commentary on gallerist Paul Middendorf’s expectations for attendance and sales at the grand opening of Gallery [...]
To All the Single Ladies (and LGBT’s Too): Lady Base Gallery Opens its Doors in the Lone Star Arts District
Even as we tip our Miss CAM crowns to all of those who have shown, celebrated, inebriated and contemplated contemporary art in San Antonio this [...]
Family Values at UP Art Studio
UP Art Studio, an artist-run space managed by Noah Quiles and Elia (Margaret) Quiles, is off the beaten path, a burst of energy and color [...]
Tête-à-Tête 3: Interview with Matthew Metzger
Interview with contemporary artist Matthew Metzger
The Artist’s Palette: Primary Colors on Paper
A twister sweeps across a sepia-toned Kansas and suddenly Dorothy enters Technicolor. In Victor Fleming’s 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz“ Dorothy, opening the [...]
The Fourth Pyramid – Galveston Artist Residency
Does Galveston need another pyramid? Driving daily past the inverted glass ashtrays of the Moody Gardens, Sallie Barbee and Eric Schnell, co-directors of the Galveston [...]
Cocksucker Blues: Robert Frank’s Infamous Rolling Stones Doc Hits the Screen 40 Years Later
I cannot overstate the rarity of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s upcoming screenings of Cocksucker Blues (1972), nor my excitement about it. This [...]
Twenty Questions: Beth Secor’s First Art Memory
Houston artist Beth Secor recalls her first taste of artistic fame: “My father said,”Hey gordy! Come on over here- it looks just like you!”
NCECA: Your Pottery-Filled Life, Part 2: Featured Artists, Project Space and the Hi-Roller
Beyond the gallery section of the NCECA conference at the George R. Brown (see part 1 of this post for details) are pieces by the [...]
Twenty Questions: David McGee’s Best Advice
In the next question in our ongoing series, videographer John Carrithers asks Houston artist David McGee to pass on the best advice he ever got. [...]
