I love Galveston. But, like Houston, it’s an acquired taste. It’s got lovely old buildings in various states of decay interspersed with not-so-lovely and downright [...]
Bless Their Hearts
Lawndale Art Center’s “Design Fair 2011″
Lawndale Art Center‘s annual market/design event has evolved into something very, very cool. It started out life 16 years ago (if my math is correct) [...]
Stuff to See: Leprous Art
I don’t know how this stuff gets out into the collective creative unconscious but I think I like it. Adam Silverman’s amazing pottery at Peel [...]
Et in Kinkadia Ego
Patricia Hernandez’s Parody of Light opened last Friday at DiverseWorks. The show, an elaborate Thomas Kinkade spoof, got a ton of advance press, including a [...]
Stuff to see, Part III
Aldo Chaparro: MORE THAN THIS Gallery Sonja Roesch September 18 – October 30, 2010 If I had an extra $1500 bucks lying around, I’d totally [...]
UT’s New VAC: More exhibition spaces than you can shake a stick at
The Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas opened last weekend after an epic remodel by architects Lake|Flato. I never saw the building in [...]
Painting over history
Less than a month ago, two murals in Texas Southern University’s historic Hannah Hall were destroyed. The works were painted in 1970 by Harvey Johnson. [...]
Hey you kids, get off my sand dune!
Bless his heart, Dallas “wildflower artist” Chapman Kelley has a problem, er, lots of problems, with the Dallas Museum of Art. The DMA wound [...]
Stuff to see, part II
Seth Alverson’s show at Art Palace is getting all kinds of great coverage and with good reason. Alverson’s an amazing painter, producing evocative “realist” work [...]
Stuff to See
Yes, it’s a 1000 degrees outside but if you can just make it through the parking lot, these Houston spaces have great air conditioning – [...]
Portrait of the Artist as Creep
When Emma Tamburlini was eleven, “her father ordered her to strip naked so that he could make a film about her growing breasts,” an article [...]
Come, let us adore him…
A couple weeks ago I received an email with this subject line: “Judd Foundation announces online access to Donald Judd’s 13,004-book personal library in Marfa, [...]
The Next Great Artist (sic)
“Why is China Chow wearing my 1984 prom dress?!?!” was my first thought when I tuned into Bravo’s “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” [...]
The Good, the Bad and the Naked
“Bless Their Hearts” visited New York a couple weeks ago and checked out some shows. The 2010 Whitney Biennial closes at the end of [...]
Bum Fights
Bless her heart, that Laurel Nakadate just can’t help herself. She’s just cute as a button and old, weird guys flock to her. What’s a [...]
