Houston Artletter

I didn't know you could inflate metal like that. William Cannings has invented a way of puffing up hollow steel shapes so that they resemble [...]

Faced with a broadcast accusation, I always feel as if it's directed at me. Thinking too much!? Not me! Schindler's is an aggressive piece; before [...]

Round Up was one of those disappointing shows that feel like the aftermath of a party. The gallery lights were dimmed; the floppy green tent [...]

Emily Sloan's SOS is four sculptures and four drawings cobbled together into an installation. It's jumbled and incoherent, but I don't think it's terminal.  The [...]

I'm agreeing with Titus (re his most recent blog post: "Another hash house opens in the Design District") about artist statements- I find that the [...]

Heading over to the MFAH to catch the last day of the Brazilian Constructivist show, I had to divert to take a picture of the [...]

Suddath's new work is a folded geometric toy made from rusted pipe outside Lawndale's back door. Half plop-art and half industrial relic, it balances uneasily [...]

One of the most difficult things to write about is art for which I don't really have strong feelings. Writing an art blog this becomes [...]

Well, I may as well get started where I left off. Here's a snapshot taken at the Norman Bluhm show at the Station, way back [...]

Do not be alarmed, this is just a test with a picture.    

This is a painting by Manuel Ocampo I saw in Los Angeles a few years ago. It's not as funny now as it was when [...]

From: rainey@glasstire.com Subject: ? Date: May 24, 2007 9:25:40 PM CDT To: borabora@wt.net Bill, What gives? No blog since Ghost Wolf…? Just checking in. R [...]

  This painting, Ghost Wolf by artist Michael Grace fascinates me. It's the kind of a painting I feel lucky to have nabbed at the [...]

Not that I'm paranoid, or anything, but here's a giant strawberry I bought last week at Kroger. If the intelligent machines don't get us, strawberries [...]

I was in a grim mood yesterday, and I was thinking about whether intelligent machines would really someday take over from people, and if so, [...]

OK, here's my rant against gated communities. You've heard it before, but I had to visit one of these places yesterday, for the first time [...]

Saw this sign last week on Waugh Drive, just across from Rudyard's. There was no one around, so I don't know whether they were handing [...]

A friend of mine visiting LA emailed me pictures of a show at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica by Jean Lowe. She thought that [...]

Doing my taxes reminds me of home. I was raised in a suburb eight miles from Washington, DC and only five from the Pentagon. My [...]