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I generally have a hard time giving a lot of credit to op art. It appeals to the part of my brain that will always [...]

The University of Texas’ Videogame Archive was begun three years ago, and the center has amassed more than 1,500 video games and about 200 linear [...]

    And just like that, the world’s first contemporary art reality TV competition (whew!) comes to an end. Adbi Farah is officially The Next [...]

    "In the end most of us are forgotten, and I don’t want to be forgotten." So true, Jaclyn, so true.  The drive for [...]

Ah geez, Ryan. You were so gone. You got so much airtime – Jehovah’s Witness, huh – that it was pretty clear you were the [...]

Well, no one saw that coming. Except me. And probably everyone else. Erik is gone, and just in case his all-around suckitude and very specific [...]

Oh lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz… – Janis Joplin You ever watch an awesome commercial and not remember what it was advertising? [...]

"That’s original to have your first erection because of Walt Disney. I had my first one because of Renoir." On last night’s Work of Art: [...]

  Have you been watching Bravo’s Work of Art every Wednesday and felt alone…so, so alone? Never fear, Twitter is here. Every week the Internet’s [...]

At stake for the winner, a solo show at the world famous Brooklyn Museum and $100,000… The week between the airing of the first and [...]

First off, the title sucks. Seriously. Why not just stick with The Next Great Artist? What’s this Work of Art business? Second, the show Work [...]

  Austin native Daniel Dove’s latest solo show at Los Angeles’ Cherry and Martin features eight oil paintings that hint at apocalyptic aftermath, their subjects [...]

This place used to be off limits, man, ‘cause some drunk freshman fell off. He went right down the middle, smacking his head on every [...]

  Will I make it through this quick review of Shawn Smith’s "Vicious Venue" at Lawndale without referencing Jean Baudrillard more than once? I think [...]

It’s time for Halloween, and do we even have to finish this introductory paragraph? You know what’s coming. Let’s get to it.       [...]

  So I’ve been playing Hi, How Are You, the iPhone game based on the drawings and music of Daniel Johnston, for a couple weeks [...]

    In honor of Clint Willour’s look at what Lawndale’s been doing in the past five years, a.k.a. “Lawndale Art Center 30th Anniversary Exhibition,” [...]

In honor of the opening on Thursday, August 13, of Perspectives 167: Jason Villegas at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, I thought it’d be fun [...]

By now you’ve probably seen Dan Lacey’s paintings of President Barack Obama, naked, with a unicorn, among other things.             [...]