Houston Artletter

Second only to Halloween as an art-saturated holiday, the end of each year is an orgy of group gift shows, holiday decorating events, and year-end [...]

With demand dropping for dull piety in art, contemporary artists have left the Nativity, the Annunciation, etc. to popular illustrators, and have rallied around Halloween [...]

This piece, just to the right of the door (I always work counterclockwise) was the first thing I looked at at the London Open at [...]

Popped into the Oxford Modern Art Museum to see some of Jenny Saville’s paintings in person- they’re based on photographs, so in reproduction you miss [...]

183 pieces in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s  collection are now online in intimate detail as part of Google’s expanded Arts Project.  With the [...]

One pitfall of installing dreck on your campus is that future webmasters may feature it online, unwittingly delivering backhanded insults to your university’s programs.

Every day I scan the web for Texas-related art news; to help me in my tireless quest, I’ve got a list of likely bookmarks I [...]

I sympathize with Chris Jagers’ dismay at the renewed assertion of language at the primary, superior carrier of meaning in his blog next door, but [...]

The key to provincialism is the belief that something happening somewhere else is more important than what is happening right before one’s eyes. Since the [...]

Let’s start with the Tolerance bridge thing I just posted on the newswire: why a new name? Is HAA trying to increase community involvement in [...]

All right, I’ve got to do another blog about the whole Wayne Dolcefino undercover Eyewitness News 13 thing. First the apologies: I suppose Dolcefino’s got [...]

Wayne Dolcefino’s expose of the misuse of Houston Arts Alliance money kicked off last night  on KTRK’s 10 O’clock news with a lot of frothing [...]

Forget the west coast, let’s eat it now!

Dan Fabian spent the summer drawing, and drawing, and drawing. Apama Mackey’s containerized art gallery on the 11th St. art corridor is crowded with 37 [...]

OK, everybody has hurricane pictures, but not everyone has a blog to post them on, so here goes: Paul Kittelson’s show at NauHaus included these [...]

The Damien Hirst direct auction at Sotheby’s is double interesting because people hate art dealers, AND they hate superstars. You can enjoy it two ways: [...]

The Damien Hirst direct auction at Sotheby’s is double interesting because people hate art dealers, AND they hate superstars. You can enjoy it two ways: [...]

A couple of weeks ago the New York Times ran an article by Nicolai Ouroussoff that decried the pragmatism of today’s architects, wistfully longing for [...]

I saw the Big Show at Lawndale weeks ago, when it first opened. I took a lot of photos, and picked these as my favorites. [...]

August is the month to get away from Houston’s heat, and this year, as usual, I visited family in the UK, with a side trip [...]